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Greetings Incoming Spark Child Care Families-    If you are receiving this e-mail it means that you have a child(ren) registered for the Spark Child Care program for the 2019/2020 SY. We are so very excited to partner with you and your family and we are gearing up for the upcoming SY. I apologize about this […]

Dear St. Vrain Valley Families, We are excited to welcome your kindergarten student next year and continue our partnership to ensure your child’s success. Recently, you may have read information in the news about the passage of additional state funding for full-day kindergarten, and we wanted to share some information regarding the positive impact this […]

Here are this week’s announcements and reminders:   Concepts: Subitizing 3, 4, 5, triangle and pyramid, white; U, V, W, X, like, you, not Homework in May… Some students have expressed that are not able to complete homework because they are doing other activities and I am okay with this. I know that this time […]

Ms. Marie’s May 2019 Newsletter                   April 28, 2019 By Marie Bloch Ms. Marie & Ms. Toni and Ms. Stacey’s News Dear Preschool Families: *** Reminder – No school Monday, April 29th. *** Also,  For the safety of your children, thank you for keeping your children with you on the sidewalk during drop off and pickup.   […]

Hello Preschool Families!!   We hope that you are enjoying the long weekend! Thank you to all of the families that came to the Carnival on Friday. We enjoyed seeing everyone there.   A Week in Review: ·      We read books about different people who help in building a building. We talked about carpenters, electricians, plumbers, construction workers […]

Hello! Here are this week’s announcements and reminders: Feel Free to keep sending plastic jugs for the igloo through Wednesday. I’ll add the last few on Wednesday afternoon. Thanks so much for the contributions so far! End of the year celebration, Thursday at 10:30 and 2:25! Come say goodbye with a sendoff snack and some […]

Happy May!  I hope you are getting to enjoy some of the beautiful weather this weekend.  If you do so by the school you might even get to meet some of our class’s guests from this last week.  We’ve been busy observing how caterpillars change into butterflies for the last few weeks and last Monday […]

Hello! Here are this week’s announcements and reminders: Concepts: Subitizing 3, 4, 5, cylinder, gray; Y, Z, look, and Wacky Wednesday this week! Feel free to wear some wacky outfits or hairstyles. Things will be a little wacky in the class as well. This is just for fun and totally optional. The last PJ Day […]

Hello Preschool Families!!   We hope that you enjoy the long weekend! Happy Mother’s Day!! A Week in Review: ·      We spilt our class into little groups and worked as a team to build a house for Herman. The teams got to pick what material they were going to use. They needed to make sure that there […]

Ways to develop Empathy in Children •MOTHERS whose behavior toward their preschool children is RESPONSIVE, NONPUNITIVE, AND NONAUTHORITARIAN have children who have higher levels of affective and cognitive empathy and prosocial behavior (Eisenberg, Lennon, and Roth 1983; EisenbergBerg and Mussen 1978; Kestenbaum, Farber, and Sroufe 1989; and Zahn-Waxler, Radke-Yarrow, and King 1979). •REASON WITH CHILDREN–Even […]