PBIS Star-Power Update Feb 2018

Creating a Positive Learning Environment at Spark! Positive Behavioral Intervention/ Supports (PBIS) is an approach to teaching and supporting positive behaviors and meeting the needs of ALL students. This school-wide approach to behavior focuses on building a safe and positive environment in which all students can learn. Our expectations for S.T.A.R behavior include: ·      S […]

ATTENDANCE REPORT for January 2018

ATTENDANCE REPORT for January 2018: As you know, regular attendance is an important part of a child’s learning.  We thank you for helping your child to maintain their skills, knowledge, and positive attitudes towards school by ensuring they are attending school. A quick reminder: we do not host Late Start Wednesdays in preschool in our […]

Way To Go Schoolpool Program Registration

2017-2018 Way to Go Schoolpool Registration Join Spark Discovery Preschool’s Schoolpool program to connect with other families to drive, walk or bike to school together. We are pleased to partner with Schoolpool, a program to help parents get their students to and/or from school. It’s free, and there is no obligation to participate. Schoolpool is a […]

Communicating Attendance

Communication between schools, teachers, families, students and the district is an essential part of fostering high levels of student growth and achievement. Supporting better attendance through communication is one important way that schools and families can foster increased student engagement and academic success. Read more >> 

STEM PROFILE OF THE MONTH: Cooperation – January 2018

Why do some children seem willing to cooperate while others do not? In fact, children learn to be cooperative and helpful. They do not become that way automatically. They have to learn to work with others by sharing materials and information. Children have to learn how to make someone else’s work or play easier. This […]

Volunteer Training – Feb 2018

December 28, 2017, 10:21am Our school is implementing volunteer training for all classroom volunteers. We have been waiting for information from our school district and would like to share it with any family members wanting to volunteer in our school during school and childcare hours.  We have hosted many sessions, with volunteers needing to attend only one, with additional sessions being […]

School Accountability Committee Update for January 2018

School Accountability Committee (SAC) Monthly Update We’d like to update you regarding this committee’s activities during the last month. Our January 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 […]

Registration Update for 2018 – 2019 School Year

REGISTRATION FOR 2018-2019: PRESCHOOL REGISTRATION: While we have completed our first round of Preschool Registration, we will be accepting applications for enrollment through the beginning of the school year. Tuition:  We are currently working to provide confirmation of placements for each tuition-based family who has submitted an application for the 2018-2019 school year.  These will […]

Important Dates: February 2018

  Mon, Feb 1 Tuition payments due.  Questions? Call Andrea at 720-652-7906 Feb 5 – 13 in cafeteria Design your own Valentine’s Day box: We are requesting that each child brings a box or bag that they have designed in order to collect their Valentine cards.  To assist you with this, between Monday, February 5 and […]

Ms. Amy’s Update 2-4-18

Dear Families,  I hope you are all doing well and enjoying this snowy Sunday!  We have a busy couple of weeks ahead of us that include parent-teacher conferences, super-hero day and the Valentines party.  We continue to talk about pets and discussing what animals can be pets, what pet would you like and taking care of […]

Ms. Nicky’s Update 2-4-18

Ms. Nicky’s and Ms. Sydney’s News Happy February! We are working on our STEM Unit of Study on Weather, and students are loving all of the season-themed dramatic play choices. We are learning about the characteristics of each season, which they seem to already know quite a bit about, but the concept of seasons, in […]

Ms. Tori’s Update 2-2-18

Hello Preschool Families!!       We hope that you enjoying your weekend. A Week in Review:  We worked more on our unit on Nursery Rhymes. We talked about “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”, “Jack Be Nimble”. We read and sang the poems as well as acting them out.  We talked about the number […]

Ms. Jess’s Update 2-1-18

January’s LearningWe shifted our focus in math from numbers 0-5 to 6-10. We have been learning about the letters P, B, R, K and A. We wrapped up our Transportation/ Roads unit. We worked on retelling the story Bear Wants More. Students did a wonderful job signing/saying the words as they retold the story. Makerspace Students […]

Ms. Amy’s Update 1-29-18

Dear Families,  All classes will be having a Valentines Party!! The parties will be held on Tuesday, February 13th for our Tuesday/Thursday morning class at 10:30-11:10.  And on Wednesday, February 14th at 10:30-11:10 for the morning class and then 2:25-2:05 for the afternoon class.  We would love for you and your child to be creative with their Valentines bag, which they take home with […]

Ms. Tori’s Update 1-29-18

Hello Preschool Families!!       We hope that you enjoyed your weekend. A Week in Review:  We started our unit on Nursery Rhymes. We talked about “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, “Star Light, Star Bright”, “Hey Diddle, Diddle”. We also talked about Space and constellations.  We talked about the number nine, 9. How do we write nine, 9? […]

Ms. Amy’s Update 1-26-18

Hope you are staying warm and enjoying the Colorado snow.  The children had fun scooping and shoveling snow into buckets outside.  If we continue to have cold and snow you are more than welcome to send in snowpants and boots for outdoor play.  We do watch the weather and do NOT go outside if it […]

Communicating Attendance

Communicating Attendance:  Communication between schools, teachers, families, students and the district is an essential part of fostering high levels of student growth and achievement. Supporting better attendance through communication is one important way that schools and families can foster increased student engagement and academic success.   Read more here >>

Communicating Weather and Emergency Information

Communicating Weather and Emergency Information:  Communication between schools, teachers, families, students and the district is an essential part of fostering high levels of student growth and achievement. Our schools employ many tools and resources to enhance communication across our community to ensure that families are aware of school events, student grades, emergency and weather communications, unexcused […]

Schoolpool – Connecting families to drive, walk, or bike to schol

2017 Way to Go Schoolpool Registration Join Spark Discovery Preschool’s Schoolpool program to connect with other families to drive, walk or bike to school together. We are pleased to partner with Schoolpool, a program to help parents get their students to and/or from school. It’s free, and there is no obligation to participate. Schoolpool is a […]

Ms. Marie’s Update 1-21-18

Dear Preschool Families and Friends, We hope you are enjoying this snowy day doing fun outdoor activities or staying warm inside!   This is perfect weather to hail our new Stem Unit on Weather which starts Monday.  This week we will be learning about winter.  Thank you for your efforts to get your children to school on […]

Ms. Tori’s Update 1-18-18

A Week in Review:     We did our Design Challenge. We created robots that would help us clean up or classroom (AM) and help us solve problems with friends (PM). We worked in small groups to create 3 robots for each class. Here is a picture of what we came up with…. AM:    PM: ​   We talked […]

Ms. Tori’s Update 1-15-18

Hello Preschool Families!!   We hope that you are having a wonderful long weekend. A Week in Review:     We worked with a robot called Dash. We worked on driving him around and programing him to play a song.   We talked about the number seven, 7. How do we write seven, 7? Can we find 7 objects? […]

Ms. Amy’s Update 1-16-18

I hope you are enjoying the beautiful snow and long weekend!  Thank-you for being so creative with your children with our Humpty Dumpty STEM project.  It was fun to predict what would protect the eggs and what would not.  Most the classes have completed our STEM activity and we had a lot of fun.  Our […]