Category: Parents

What should my child be able to know and do?   Social / Emotional Development We want to inform parents of what we are assessing across the course of 2 years of preschool (these are expectations for children leaving preschool for kindergarten). Here’s a summary of the skills children need to have mastered by the end […]

Dear Spark! Parents / Families, On behalf of our School Accountability Committee and the Design / Leadership Team I am excited to send this survey to measure key components of quality preschool programming at Spark! Discovery Preschool. In order to increase the quality of our preschool programming, we need your input, ideas, and opinions.    […]

Monday, April 1 School resumes after Spring Break Monday, April 1 Tuition payments due April 1 – 30 STEM Profile focus for April 2019– Creative April 1 – 5th Read Across America Week-long Celebration: This is a week, celebrated since 1997, where people bring reading excitement to children of all ages!   Month-long READING CHALLENGE:  […]

Hello Preschool Families!!    We hope that you enjoyed your weekend! A Week in Review: ·      We continued our music unit. We talked about different instrument families. We listened to music being played by each of the instrument families. We went to Makerspace and made our own percussion instruments with our practicum student, Ms. Sunny ·      We worked […]

Hello! Here are this week’s announcements and reminders:   Concepts: Fourteen (14), cube, orange; Literacy Q, U, me, like Show and Share Sounds: Q and U (*Show and Share – Each week, once a week, your child may bring show and share items that start with our letters of the week. In a few weeks […]

Hello Preschool Families!!     We hope that you are enjoying your weekend!   A Week in Review: ·      We started our Music Unit. We talked about sounds. We learned that when we talk our voice box vibrates to produce the sounds. The sound waves then hit our ear drums and vibrates the bones in our middle […]

Hello Preschool Families!!   We hope that you are enjoying your weekend! It was also great seeing all of you and speaking about your wonderful children during parent-teacher conferences this week.   A Week in Review: ·      We finished our STEM Unit on Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We created objects out of recycled materials. ·      We worked on the […]

Weekly Reminders 2/17/19   Hello! Here are this week’s announcements and reminders:   Concepts: Twelve (12), cone, green; Literacy D, V, do, in Show and Share Sounds: D and V This Tuesday, February 19th is the due date for tuition-based parents to get back to the office to reserve their spot for the next year […]

Ms. Marie’s Update 02 17 19 Dear Preschool Families & Friends: Important Notes: Mon, Feb 18 – Presidents’ Day – School is closed  Tues Feb 19 – Due date for tuition-based parents to reserve their child’s returning spot for the next year ($65 deposit due)    Tues Feb 19 – 4:00 – 5:30 pm Volunteer […]

Hello Preschool Families!!   We hope that you are enjoying your weekend! It was also great seeing all of you at our Valentine’s Day/ Friendship Party. A Week in Review: ·      We talked more about friendship and how to be a good friend. ·      We worked some on the number, 19. We counted 19 objects and practiced how […]