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Dear Preschool Families,                                                                                       NOTE:  Today, Sunday, Mar 11:  Daylight Savings –  Clocks spring forward This week we are continuing our STEM unit on Pets.  Our focus will be where pets live and where we get them. Please send or email a copy of your family pet/s.  If you haven’t […]

Dear Families, Last week we had a wonderful time celebrating all things Dr. Seuss.  The highlight was making green eggs and ham!  The children predicted whether they thought they would like to eat the green eggs and ham, then cracked the eggs, stirred and added green food color to the eggs.  Many of the children tried […]

Hello Preschool Families!!    We hope that you enjoy your weekend. A Week in Review:  We tested out designs for keeping Humpty Dumpty safe. We had six groups between the morning and afternoon classes. Humpty Dumpty stayed safe in all but one of the designs. Yay! We had a lot of fun this week reading Dr. […]

Ms. Nicky’s and Ms. Sydney’s News Thank you to all of you for taking the time to come to conferences! It was nice to meet with all of you to discuss your child’s accomplishments. We just wrapped up our STEM Unit of Study on Weather. During this unit, we talked a lot about the different […]

Our school is implementing volunteer training for all classroom volunteers.  From late November through mid January, we offered 8 different trainings on a variety of days of the week, times of the day, along with translation options. Starting February 2018, we began offering once a month trainings. These sessions are targeted for adults and adults with infants so attention […]

OPEN-MINDED At Spark! Discovery Preschool, we define Open-Minded as, “I know that people are different and may do different things. I know that not everyone will think like I do. I listen, value, and try to understand others.” Tips for Developing Open-Mindedness at Home 1.    Encourage your child to respect differences and similarities between themselves and others, […]

Important Dates: MARCH 2018 Thurs, March 1 Tuition payments due.  Questions? Call Andrea at 720-652-7906 Feb 26 – March 9 PTO Butter-braids fund raiser.  Order forms are due to the office on March 9th by 4 pm.  Butter-braids can be picked up on Tuesday, March 20 from 11:10 am – 5pm March 5 – April […]

School Accountability Committee (SAC) Monthly Update We’d like to update you regarding this committee’s activities during the last month. Our February 2018 SAC agenda included: ·      A Design and Leadership Team update regarding decision-making and professional learning happening in our school ·      A STEM update regarding programming and our progress to a full offering of […]

Dear Preschool Families,                                                                                           2/25/18   This week we are celebrating Dr. Seuss and Read Across America!   Monday is crazy hat or hair day!  Show your Dr. Seuss side or your silly side. We have many fun activities planned this week that tie into Dr. Seuss.    Please see the attached documents from the early […]

Hello Preschool Families!!         We hope that you enjoyed your weekend.   A Week in Review:    We worked more on our unit on Nursery Rhymes. We talked more about “Humpty Dumpty.” We also started our Design Challenge. We need to design a way for Humpty Dumpty to stay safe when he fell off […]