One of the biggest sources of anxiety in parents of young children is preparing for kindergarten. It’s a time when you say goodbye to the familiar and dive into the somewhat unknown. In the eyes of adults, there seem to be more questions than answers. Will they be able to sit still? Will they make...
Need PPP? At the end of each season, the lost and found items can be taken home, laundered and donated to a thrift store like The Second Mile. There are Lost and Found Bins in the entrance to the Sweet Building, and at the entrance to the Infant Hallway in the Spruce Building. Just submit a slip to...
ATTENTION AFTER SCHOOL FAMILIES: Now is the time to re-register for the After School Center for September 2015. Re-registration is NOT automatic. The ASC will open on Tuesday, September 8, the first day of school. Be sure your child has a place in After School – we give preference to current...
The Horticultural Society visited the Starlights and Hawks classrooms one morning last week to judge the entries for next year's Junior Flower Show. The Starlights made hanging mobiles with items from our Recycleteria, using hangers, string, ribbon, and an array of objects from toy wheels to...
Several PIC folks spent a recent lovely evening at the Please Touch Museum to be part of the Terri Lynne Lokoff Foundation’s annual National Teacher Awards ceremony. Grasshopper Room teacher Nichole McLeer was among fifty teachers from across the country whose application was chosen from the...
Our plant sale days were beautiful and brought out families, community members and alumni to St. Andrews Chapel. This year’s Plant Sale raised $32,000! All of the proceeds of the fundraiser go to the tuition assistance fund. The fund has been helping more families have access to quality early...
The Importance of Critical Thinking While on the playground on a recent picture-perfect spring afternoon, I observed a group of four and five-year-olds gathered around one of the tall trees. Apparently a stuffed animal cat had been thrown in the air and was stuck on a limb of the tree. The children...
As we just completed our every-five-year NAEYC reaccreditation validation visit, it seems like an appropriate time to share a bit of information about the organizations that provide oversight of PIC and how that oversight affects our daily work at PIC. All child care programs in the state need to be...
We are in the process of looking at the results of our annual PIC Early Learning Family Feedback Survey that had a completion deadline last week. A separate survey is being sent to families in the After School Center and we will look at those results when that survey is completed. We are happy to...
Last week our Moonbeam, Rainbow and Sunshine classrooms gathered outside on our PIC corner for a visit from our local firefighters. While waiting for the fire truck to arrive, shrills of excitement were heard from the children. Then, at the first glimpse of the very large red truck getting close to...
