Early Learning Families: On Thursdays in the Early Learning classrooms, families can elect for their child(ren) to be served a pizza lunch. Most families enjoy this one day when they don't have to pack a lunch! There are now 2 ways to pay for this service: Pay cash each week (pay only for what your...
PIC will close at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, December 24 and re-open Monday, January 5. Winter Break Wednesday: There will be NO EARLY CARE on Wednesday, December 24. All programs will open at 8:00 am. In order for us to make sure we are adequately staffed on the day before Winter Break, we ask that you...
The Parent Involvement Committee next meets on Tuesday, January 6 from 5:45 to 7:00 pm. New faces welcome! We offer a pizza supper for adults and children. Please RSVP by Monday, January 5, especially if you need child care, via email to Family Life Coordinator Lynne Piersol.
PIC will begin using School Messenger, a communications service, to announce school closings and other important messages to families via text, phone, and/or email. You MUST "opt-in" in order to receive texts from PIC. Soon you will receive a text asking if you would like to receive messages from...
We would love to expand participation on our PIC Board of Directors and various committees. Board Committees include Buildings and Grounds, Development, Diversity, Finance, Human Resources, Parent Involvement, and Quality. You do not have to be a Board Member to serve on the committees and in fact...
Building Up, Up, Up The Moonbeams have really been into building lately. This includes building with blocks, Legos, and most recently, the sound tubes. While building, children are developing social and emotional skills, learning teamwork and experiencing feelings of competence. They are also...
What IS a Roadrunner? PIC's first Fall Festival flowed like a warm autumn breeze. The various activity stations set up invited engaging interactions as our community witnessed a collection of creativity in various areas of emergent curriculum. Each classroom designed t-shirts with a collective theme...
Creating Clubs of Artistry As the weather gets colder, creative minds are just getting warmed up in PIC's After School Center. This session, we are happy to welcome a new set of clubs that focus on artistic expression. The artistic energy can be clearly seen in the kindergarten students of the...
Curriculum, Planned Possibilities, and Play “Where’s my house?” a Firefly asks, looking intently at the West Philadelphia map spread across the table. Nearby, a child drives a toy truck through a “map” of blocks laid out in a grid, and at the Writing Center, another child tells her friend, “This is...
Exploring Light and Color This month, the children in the infant and toddler classes at PIC are exploring light and color. Light, shadow, and color permeates everything we see and captures children’s interest from the earliest moments of infancy. Our intention in the classroom is to give the...
