We’re not an encyclopedia or exhaustive training course on making your kids “turn out”. This blog is a cue. A prompt. Because really, we know you’re already busy doing all you can to invest in your kids and help them on their way to adulthood. But it’s not always easy to stay focused. Our goal is to make it easy for you to remember what’s important.
We want to remind you why what you do is so important. To help you focus on what matters most. To discover parenting along with you, so you know you’re not in this alone. Not all at once. Just little by little. So week by week, we will cue you so you can make the most of the weeks you have with your kids before graduation.
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Oct 30, 2019
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at November 2019 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents, “Can you say thank you?” How many times will a child be asked that question in their preschool years? We ask them again and again because we want to help them learn to be thankful. This month is all about saying thank you. In fact, we are going to be bubbling over with thankfulness in the Bubble Factory, our theme for this month. Throughout the month, preschoolers will learn to be thankful for their family, friends, and food. And, they’ll learn that saying, “Th
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Sep 5, 2019
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at September 2019 for your preschool kids
Happy Fall, Parents! We're back and ready for a brand new season here at Mountainview Kids! Be sure to check your emails weekly, as we have a new weekly PARENT CUE email coming your way! Now when was the last time you really looked at everything God made? Taking a moment to walk outside or search for the wonders of the world online will totally change the way you share this month’s Bible stories with preschoolers. We need that WONDER dial turned way up! ALL the way up! And th
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- May 5, 2019
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at May 2019 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! What would you do if you were assigned a huge building project to manage? Or told to step into the leadership role for an entire nation where every person would depend on you to make the right decisions? How about helping someone else accomplish a big job where you’re not going to get much recognition? Or, do the one thing you would be most afraid of doing, while everyone you know watches? All of these are pretty big things and would intimidate most of us. Howe
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Apr 1, 2019
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at April 2019 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! God created us to be in a relationship with Him and in relationships with people here on earth. He wants us to have friends, and He wants us to be a good friend. In fact, He wants it so much, God sent His one and only Son, Jesus, to show us how to be a good friend and make a way for us to be friends with Him forever. Friendships are a big part of preschoolers’ lives. Through these first relationships, they are learning how to be a friend, have fun with friends,
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Feb 27, 2019
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at March 2019 for your preschool kids
Hello parents of children in the preschool phase! This month, we will begin laying the foundation for some very important future conversations around the subject of sexual integrity. Before we ever talk with kids and teens about what to do and not do with their bodies, we need to start with who made their body and why that makes them so valuable. And a great place to start is now, in the preschool years, with this simple but powerful truth—God made me. Like the colorful build
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Feb 2, 2019
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at February 2019 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! We can’t think of a better time to teach preschoolers about how much Jesus loves them than February— the month of love! And how much does Jesus love preschoolers? Well, the same as He loves you and me—A LOT! In fact, there is nothing wider or longer or higher or deeper than the love Jesus has for you and the preschoolers in your life. This month, our goal is for preschoolers to know Jesus loves them, and that nothing will ever change that. To do that, we’ve pla
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at January 2019 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! One of the wonderful things about preschoolers is they know they have needs and they are not afraid to let you know. That’s a good thing and something we want to use to help preschoolers see another need they have – a need we all have – and that is Jesus. Jan 5/6 We will begin the month with a preschool favorite—when the four friends take the lame man to see Jesus. They knew only Jesus could heal their friend. This is a great story to act out over and over agai
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Nov 26, 2018
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at December for your preschool kids
Happy birthday, Jesus! Yes, we know that Christmas is all about Jesus’ birthday, but do your preschoolers know? It will be a new idea to some of them. We have the best jobs in the world because we get to share with preschoolers for the first time that Christmas is all about Jesus’ birthday! Jesus has a birthday? Yep, He sure does! And, we are going to celebrate it BIG! We also want our preschoolers to know that the reason we celebrate Jesus’ birthday is because Jesus is God’s
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Nov 7, 2018
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at November 2018 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! The Happy Helpers Club is back, and we want everyone to join! In the past, we’ve talked about all the ways we can help. This time, we want to look at helping from a different angle and focus more on being thankful for the many people who help us. We’re asking, Who helps me, and how can I show them I am thankful for them? Simply put, we want our preschoolers to grow up with eyes that see the helpers and a heart that is thankful. Because no matter how grown up yo
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Oct 1, 2018
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at October 2018 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! There are a lot of things in life that the children we teach, their moms and dads, our friends, just can’t do. That’s right. Sometimes we just don’t have it. We don’t have a handle on our circumstances. We don’t have what it takes to makes things better. We don’t have the answers, energy, wisdom, patience, solution, or way out of a situation. But, we do know the One who does. And, when you know the One who does, there’s no need to worry. God’s got it. That’s wh
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Aug 30, 2018
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at September 2018 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! This month’s Colorific theme is going to help us teach preschoolers that God keeps His promises. We’ve all experienced a broken promise or two and our preschoolers won’t have to wait long to experience one too. We want them to grow up knowing that God always keeps His promises. No matter how long we have to wait, God will come through. SEPTEMBER 1/2 We will begin week one with the story of Moses and God’s promise to always be with us. We want preschoolers to kn
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- May 1, 2018
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at May 2018 for your preschool kids
We see other works of art every day that have a Maker and a plan. We pass them on the street, at work, and every Sunday they play around our feet. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Yes, people! People are God’s works of art. He is our maker. And, He has a plan for each of us. Every neighbor. Every preschooler. Every parent. God has a plan for all of us, because He made us and loves us. We want to teach our preschoolers this month that God has a plan for them. Imagine how mu
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Apr 5, 2018
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at April 2018 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! We have some BIG NEWS for you! Are you ready for it? JESUS. IS. ALIVE! Okay, okay. You already know that, but for many of the preschoolers who celebrated Easter with us, this is not only be BIG NEWS, it's NEW news as well! We have the awesome privilege of telling preschoolers that Jesus is God’s Son, He is alive, and He wants to be their friend forever. It truly is BIG NEWS! APRIL 7/8 During this week, we will learn how the early church didn’t just tell others
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Feb 28, 2018
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at March 2018 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! This month we’ve GONE FISHIN’ and we can’t wait to see what ideas you and your preschoolers reel in to go with this theme. We’re imagining ponds and fish and little kids running in the room to see what they’re going to get to do next! It just seems perfect since this month is all about Jesus and how He taught the disciples to be fishers of men. How did they learn to be fishers of men? Well, they followed Jesus! And, we want our preschoolers to know that they ca
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Feb 2, 2018
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at February 2018 for your preschool kids
Hello Preschool Parents! Jesus loves everyone is the sweetest news we will ever share with our preschoolers. And since sweets are a HUGE part of this month—with all of the heart-shaped cookies and candy hearts—we decided the perfect theme for February would be SWEET SHOP!! We will hear the stories of the woman at the well, Zacchaeus, the unloved woman, and Peter. Jesus showed love to all of these people, and it’s the same kind of love He has for you and me and every preschool
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Jan 4, 2018
- 3 min
My First Look: a look at January 2018 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! Preschoolers love showing us what they can do. They are full of WATCH THIS moments. And it can be anything – turning in a circle, running and jumping on a pile of pillows, curtseying like a princess, or my favorite, making their eyebrows go up and down. I love it when they learn how to do that. Their facial expressions are hilarious! Pretty much anything a preschooler can do falls into the WATCH THIS category, simply because they think anything they learn how t
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Nov 30, 2017
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at December 2017 for your preschool kids
Hello, Parents! Can you believe it’s that time of year again? Time to decorate, bake cookies, buy gifts, sing carols. And, in our world, it’s time to teach preschoolers the true story of Christmas—the story of when God gave us Jesus—the best gift ever! Every year, this story is retold. God sends an angel to tell Mary the good news. Jesus is born. The angels tell the shepherds. And, once they see baby Jesus, they tell everyone! Then the wise men come and worship God’s Son. If
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Oct 31, 2017
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at November 2017 for your preschool kids
This month, we want to cook up a big Recipe For Thanks with our preschoolers! Thinking about the things we’re thankful for is the key to any recipe of thanks—and a thankful heart. We chose Recipe For Thanks as our theme because we want our preschoolers to learn how to have a thankful heart. We will start the month learning about the Ten Commandments. Commandments are some of those ingredients that may not sound yummy but they are oh so good for you. Week one, we’ll get to hea
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The CM Team @ Mountainview
- Sep 27, 2017
- 2 min
My First Look: a look at October 2017 for your preschool kids
Hello Parents! We know things are going to happen in our preschoolers’ lives where they will need God’s help—times when their lives will zig one way and then zag another. We want them to grow up believing that God loves them and can help them anywhere, with anything, no matter how hard it may be. He can even help them help others! This month, we’ll learn about the life of David and how even when it zigged and zagged, God was there to help him. We will begin with David as a bo
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