Category: Parents

At Spark! we define reflective for children as, “I think about what I have learned, what I am good at and what I can I mprove the next time. I take the time to think about my actions and their impacts. I give and take feedback from others.” We want to help develop students who […]

An informational letter was sent home about transitioning to kindergarten for the 2018 -2019 school year.  Additionally, a video was sent to all parents, via email, on Friday, November 17, to discuss the kindergarten enrollment window, which is from December 1, 2017 through January 15, 2018.  St. Vrain Valley School District offers the following Kindergarten […]

Individual classrooms will be hosting classroom parties on Thursday and Friday, December 14 – 15, 2017, using the schedule below.  Each class will conduct their own celebration – contact the teacher for more details.  Date Time Classes Thursday, Dec. 14 10:30 – 11:10 am   Mon – Thurs AM class Tues / Thurs AM class […]

Regular attendance is an important part of a child’s learning, starting with preschool though high school, and beyond. THANK YOU FOR HELPING US TO MAINTAIN GREAT ATTENDANCE TRENDS this school year. Here is data to report from Oct 2017:     2017 –This Year Previous Years – Trend data Number of Tardies: 104 (whole school) […]

Regular attendance is an important part of a child’s learning, starting with preschool though high school, and beyond. THANK YOU FOR HELPING US TO MAINTAIN GREAT ATTENDANCE TRENDS this school year. Here is data to report from Oct 2017: Tardies in Oct ’17 = 104, as compared to 59 in Oct 2015 and 58 in […]

We want to inform parents of what we are assessing across the course of 2 years of preschool (these are expectations for typically developing children leaving preschool for kindergarten). Here’s a summary of the skills children need to have mastered by the end of preschool in Language.  Sharing these expectations with parents, a child’s first […]

Dear Parents, This week will be our final week of our STEM unit on Robots.  We will be wrapping up the unit with a STEM project where students build a robot to help our classroom.  If you have some smaller size boxes please continue to send them in.  We will also read the story, Bear Says […]

Hello Families, I can’t believe November is here already!  October went by in a blur with visits from the fire department, the school bus, building a new vehicle for traveling, fall explorations and then Halloween.  I hope you all got a chance to view your child’s group creation for the Transportation design challenge while they […]

Hello Preschool Parents, We hope you are all having a wonderful Halloween! We can’t wait to hear the kids’ trick-or-treating stories tomorrow. Tomorrow, we will be going to the Spark library. Children whose parents have given permission for them to check out books will be coming home with library books tomorrow. These are due back the […]

Hello, Preschool parents!  Over the last two weeks, our class participated in the Design Challenge Process. Design Challenges are open-ended, creative projects where students work together to solve a real-world problem. In this case, we read a book called A Home for Dixie, then challenged the children to create some kind of carrier that would help us […]