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Important Info About Enrolling & Registering for New and Returning Students at Spark! Discovery Preschool for 2021-2022:It is time to enroll for preschool for the 2021-2022 school year, and we still have vacancies! THE ENROLLMENT PORTAL for SVVSD linked here: https://www.svvsd.org/departments/early-childhood/preschool/ DESCRIPTION OF PRESCHOOL PROGRAMMING OPTIONS in 2021-2022: Our class schedules are: AM session: 8:30 – 11:10 am, […]
Hello Preschool Families, We hope that you enjoyed your weekend! A Week in Review: · We participated in a Design Challenge about making lemonade. We worked together in small groups to create our own lemonade using the flavors of strawberry, lime, orange and grapefruit. The students had fun getting to juice the fruit in different […]
January 27 – March 13 – STEM Unit #4 for the whole school. As a reminder, each year has different units of learning. Month of March STEM Profiles: Open-Minded and Empathy Month of March Math Focus: Data-Analysis Monday, March 2 – Tuition for March is due Wednesday, March 4, Whole class pictures (seperate schedule will […]
Ms. Nicky and Ms. Julie’s News We had a great time with our transportation unit! We had so many adventures, from field trips to the police station to going to a drive-in movie with awesome home-made vehicles to traveling around the world in an airplane to building boats and seeing if they could float. We hope your child shared […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear Parents and Guardians: In the spring of the 2018-2019 school year, we sent a school-wide parent/family survey home to gain feedback from our community about various topics related to our programming. We’d like to accomplish three things in this communication today: Share the results of the 2018-2019 survey. Highlight improvements and actions taken based […]
Dear Spark! Discovery Preschool families: It is time to start thinking about transitioning to kindergarten for next school year. For the 2020-2021 school year, kindergarten applications will be accepted between December 2-16, 2019, online only. Registration continues after December 16, but choice of schedule options may be limited. To enroll in kindergarten, students must turn 5 […]
ENTHUSIASTIC: At Spark! Discovery Preschool, we define ENTHUSIASTIC as, “I AM EXCITED ABOUT LEARNING AND THE WORLD AROUND ME.” About Enthusiasm By Paige Gordon, Head of School Preschoolers are naturally inclined as enthusiastic learners, and our goal at Spark! Discovery Preschool is to continue this enjoyment for learning and life. We want our preschoolers’ interests to be developed […]
STEM Units 1, 2, 3 – From Paige Gordon, Principal I serve as our school’s STEM coordinator and want to take a moment to share information about our school’s STEM Programming. Preschoolers in every classroom will be instructed in at least 5 units each year; these units of instruction represent the school’s comprehensive plan for […]
