It's all about that pencil grasp when we are three and four. However, there are some preparatory skills that strengthen our fingers so they are ready for that pencil grasp and all the writing we soon get to do. Our friends in Ms. Leonna and Ms. Christie's three year old class were practicing sewing footballs and holding onto a string with their pencil grasp. Lots of focus and concentration was happening and it was really quiet in the classroom, kind of rare for three. Their f

Here at Trinity we are very thankful for our volunteers! Thanks to help from these volunteers, this summer one of our to-do list items finally got ticked off completely. All of our classrooms got painted! Now, we sit back and enjoy. Ha, ha! Now, we get to start doing touch-ups in the classrooms that got painted last year. Yes, it has taken us two years to paint 10 rooms. When you work around volunteers' schedules, you take what you can get and we are thankful for the money it

It’s no secret that smell is closely linked with memory. Sometimes we don’t even realize how significant that is until we take in an aroma that suddenly transports us to another time and place. Thinking of my grandparents, I associate them with a variety of scent snapshots. On the one side of the family tree, I think of the smell of chlorine and freshly trimmed roses (grandpa had a pool and a garden), or of dusty dolls (they enjoyed collectibles). I catch a waft of old carpet