Making & Taking Orders Let family, friends, neighbor, and co-workers know about the Day of Play plant sale and online store (and to credit you as the seller), and watch the dollars and PPP hours add up. Buy or sell $100 or more worth of plants or concert tickets. Families earn 2 PPP hours for the...
PIC Early Learners will celebrate Earth Day on Friday, April 21 with an environmentally-friendly parade. We will leave PIC at 10:30 am and parade down Locust Walk where we will gather for songs and snack. All families are invited to join us!
PIC's Day of Play - Saturday, May 20 A community celebration for all ages featuring a morning filled with a family music concert, art demonstrations, music, and activities for children, plus PIC's annual plant sale. The evening features an adult-only concert with a great lineup of West Philadelphia...
Staff Appreciation Week April 24- April 28 During Staff Appreciation Week, we organize a week-long celebration of our teachers. It is a time when the Board, administors, and families recognize our teachers for the hard work that they do each day. We have a wonderful tradition of families posting a...
Everything you need to know - from Deb Green This is the time of year when many children approach the older end of the age range for the classrooms that they are currently in. It is a time when you begin to have questions about children moving to the next age group. I hope that this memo answers at...
Our Invaluable Staff If there is a single reason why PIC is so loved, it is most definitely our teachers! I hear it from parents day after day, and through comments in our family feedback survey year after year. For all of our 38 years, PIC has placed a high value on its staff. In fact, the largest...
West Philadelphia Trouble is joining Day of Play for their debut performance on May 20! This group of friends is the new musical adventure of established musician Lucien Dowdell. The pillars of the ensemble are creativity, honesty and fearlessness. (The order varies from note to note.) Sample their...
The Afterschool Spreads its Wings In a whirl of boxes, crates, tables, chairs, and pianos, without interrupting its programming for the children, the Afterschool teachers and six friendly, burly movers dismantled and transported four classrooms to new locations during a blustery week at the...
Our Day of Play event to be held on May 20 is growing up around our long-standing spring Plant Sale. With good weather on the way, many of you will begin imagining your gardens, window boxes, and porch displays. And, you may have already noticed some early blooms of hellebores from past PIC plant...
Did you Hear That? For the past weeks, the Bees have been studying sounds and exploring where they come from. We did not have to search far for sound, because sound is literally bursting all around us. As we open our classroom windows we hear dogs barking as they trot down the street, children...
