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What is Creativity?:  At Spark! we define Creativity for children as, “I use my imagination while making, building, and doing things.” How do you inspire creativity at home with your preschooler?  Here are some ideas from The Whole You:  A Guide to Life Creativity USE YOUR SENSES: Pick a place you and your child find interesting.  […]

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:  […]

Themes:This month is a short 3 weeks and then we embark on the coveted spring break!! This month we will be learning about Dr. Seuss throughout the week in March. We will celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday on March 2nd. Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!! The children will be reading all of his fun books and creating a hat […]

Here are this week’s announcements and reminders: Concepts: Sixteen (16), prism, Red; X, Y, look, and Show and Share Sounds: X and Y Rock Your Socks, PJ Day and Stuffy Day Thursday, March 21st! Wear your coziest PJs, rock your brightest socks, and bring your favorite stuffy to school in recognition of World Down Syndrome […]

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 […]

Here are this week’s announcements and reminders: Concepts: Fifteen (15), pyramid, ROYGBIV rainbow (Rainbow, Rainbow song) Show and Share Sounds: M and Z PJ and Stuffy Day Thursday, March 21st! Wear your cozy PJs and bring your favorite stuffy to school to celebrate how hard we’ve been working together as a team. Butter Braids forms […]

Ms. Marie’s March 2019 Newsletter            March 3, 2019   By Marie Bloch   Ms. Marie & Ms. Jessica & Ms. Toni’s News   Dear Preschool Families: March has come in like a lion!  We hope you are staying warm.  We are in the middle of our Family and Friends STEM Unit. The children have been so excited […]

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 […]

Dear Families, This week we will continue to talk about Buildings.  We have some fun new materials in the classroom, which the children are enjoying.  We are focusing on shapes and making a doghouse to go with our story, A Home For Harry.   The sun is out again (YAY!) so we will be going outside […]

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 […]