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Dear Families, The new St. Vrain Innovation Center at 33 Quail Rd, Longmont, CO 80501 is offering  Makerspace time slots for preschool classes.  There are 15 slots for parents and children who are interested in this opportunity on Friday, December 13th from 9:45-10:45.  I will send you the information and sign-up sheet.  Ms. Allison and I […]

Hello families,     During the last three school years we have had full day preschool programming at Spark! Discovery Preschool.  We are planning to continue this programming for the 2020 – 2021 school year.  Our returning families, those with students currently enrolled during the 2019-2020 school year, will get to participate in a lottery we […]

In this month’s issue of the Family Connections Newsletter, we share new findings on media use by tweens and teens and explore how St. Vrain students of all ages are engaging in robotics. To sign up to receive the monthly newsletter in your email, click here!

School wide we using the professional text, The Big Ideas of Early Mathematics: What Teachers of Young Children Need to Know (Erikson Institute Early Math Collaborative, 2014), to implement changes to instruction.  While we continue to have preschoolers work to sort, count, and deveolop number sense, we will be focused on number operations this month.  Look […]

RESPECTFUL — At Spark! Discovery Preschool, we define Respectful as, “Respectful: I show that I care for others, our world, and myself.” Here is an article called “How to Teach Respect, Ages 3 to 4,” by the folks at Baby Centre, with a link/source listed below: “What to expect at the preschool age Trying to get respectful […]

The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools is hosting its first-ever Community STEM Night event from 4:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 13. Pre-K through fifth grade students and families are invited to participate in hands-on STEM activities, tours, and fun. Students can design, experiment, build, and invent through coding, engineering, creating, and science activities that empower them […]

Students have been enjoying our pets unit learning about different animals and what kind of care they need. We painted pet rocks and made them milk carton homes and other items like leashes or blankets and most of your kiddos took them home this week. Some in the morning class still need to make the […]

Hello!   Here are this week’s announcements and reminders: Concepts:  Fundations®: U and V Math : subitizing (seeing numbers to 6), recognizing the number on a die, counting objects to 20 Stem: Transportation – Design Challenge Project: Stone Soup PATHS: Yellow and Blue Feelings Tuesday, Nov 19th Spark Night at Chick Fil-A in Longmont. **Downloading […]

Hello Preschool Families!!      We hope that you are enjoying your weekend. We had a great week! A Week in Review: ·  We talked about fall. We made observations about fall. We observed that the leaves change colors and start to fall to the ground. Fall is colder than summer. We talked about what we like […]

Ms. Marie’s Update 11/17/19 Dear Preschool Families and Friends,                                                            Important reminder for parents of children entering kindergarten next year: Kindergarten registration for the district begins on December 2nd.  Information about registration can be found at SVVSD’s Kindergarten page.  More information is available through the City of Longmont’s site:  Launch to Kindergarten Please sign and return your […]