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11-27-2019 Dear Spark! Discovery Preschool families:  We are seeking donations to serve children in need at our school as a community service to our families.  We’ve set a goal of serving 30 children and families with a new set of children’s PJs, a new children’s book, and a new blanket.  We are seeking: 1) New […]

Spark! Discovery Preschool has a Child Find Satellite office here in our building and serving the east side of the district.  The main District Child Find office is at Student Services in Longmont. Each district is required by the Individuals with Disabilities Educational Act (IDEA) to have a child find process to identify children suspected […]

All students attending Spark! Discovery Preschool (Spark!) are required to have a General Health Appraisal within the last year. To ensure every child is compliant with this requirement,Spark! Discovery Preschool and the Early Childhood Department of SVVSD has invited Salud Family Health Centers (Salud) Mobile Unit to provide General Health Appraisals to any child who currently needs […]

We could use a few donations in the Health Office: Girl/boy clothes sizes 3T-6T Girl/boy Toddler Shoes sizes 7-13 Girl/Boy underwear (new in package) sizes 3T-6T Socks (new in package) General Health Appraisal Forms–– General Health Appraisal forms were due in September for children who started at the beginning of the school year.  Notifications have […]

Happy Sunday!   Concepts – Y, Z, Three (3), triangle, green; “proud” and “love” Thanks for the veggies for Healthy Learning Paths! We had a great time cutting veggies and trying guacamole. Next week is our last lesson with Ms. Mercedes and Healthy Learning Paths. In your Friday folders you should have received a survey […]

Dear Families,  Hope you have had a wonderful weekend.  The week ahead is very busy for our preschoolers!  We will be on our final week of our STEM unit Simple Machines and be reading the story Stuck by Oliver Jeffers and then creating a design challenge to figure out what the children would use to […]

Dear Families, We have had a wonderful November with a focus on our STEM unit Simple Machines and also a study of Pumpkins.  Thank-you for all the pumpkin and apple donations!  The children had fun sorting, counting and pounding golf tees into the pumpkins.   Our new STEM unit is Re-duce, Re-use and Re-cycle and this week we […]

NewsWe had a busy November!  This month we focused on the letters Jj, Kk, Ll, and Mm. We also have been working on recognizing numbers 1-5 and counting groups ofitems from 1-5. We have wrapped up our unit on Friends and Family. CurriculumOur next unit of focus is Simple Machines. We will be focusing on concepts such as wheels, levers, and ramps. Because this […]

Ms. Piper’s Class Newsletter 11-30-18 Hello, preschool families! We hope this message finds you well. This is the classroom update for the months of November and December. What We’re Learning We have completed our second STEM Unit, Buildings, and begun our third unit: Music! In this unit, we will explore sounds, rhythm, tempo, and musical […]

Here is a summary of our November 2018 Agenda: 1.  Highlights of Design / Leadership Team and STEM work so far:   Multi-Tiered Systems of Support – 18-19 process ECERS peer feedback AM Professional Development / “Late Start”   Training for work-place skills Hiring STEM – moving on to unit 3 2.  Share philsophical documents with […]