We recently marked the Week of the Young Child, an annual celebration created to highlight the importance of early learning, teachers, children, and their families. We had special festivities each day including Music Monday, Bubbles Tuesday, Wacky Wednesday, Silly hat Thursday and Pajama Friday...
A monthly message from Executive Director Deb Green Spring is in the air! While I look forward to spring for so many reasons, one of the biggest is seeing the children have opportunities for long periods of daily outdoor play. This winter we added new elements to our Nature Playground and it’s been...
All families who enroll a child at PIC commit to make an investment of time in their child's learning experience and the work that we do. PIC’s uniquely participatory approach involves parents in most phases of the center’s work – from volunteering in the classroom to serving on the Board of...
A monthly message from Executive Director Deb Green Every organization has its own language. During several recent conversations with PIC families, I was reminded that there are many aspects of PIC’s “language” that may be unfamiliar to some and that deserve some further explanation. I am using this...
"Early childhood education is more than just a formal way to describe early years of learning; but a gateway to the growth and developmental process of young children preparing for grade school and the real world around them." Congratulations to Wild Things Lead Teacher Melody Graves who has been...
Everything you need to know about PIC Move-ups 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 families begin to have questions about children moving to the next age group. I hope that this answers...
A Monthly Message from Executive Director Deb Green For many of us, our personal and professional lives are now divided into the things that happened pre-COVID and the things that we identify with now. As we get closer to the 3-year mark of COVID taking such a central place in all of our lives, I am...
PIC has a stunning new mud kitchen for the children to play with on our Nature Playground. Upon seeing it, children instantly swarmed to it to discover all the fun it holds. A mud kitchen is an outdoor setup for children to pretend to prepare and cook food using any combination of mud, sand and...
The Butterflies preschoolers took a moment recently to celebrate Lunar New Year. The event was organized by classroom parents who shared many traditions with the Butterflies. They learned the history of the holiday, danced, did calligraphy, rolled out "dough" for dumplings, read, did a paper project...
PIC is lucky to be based in a vibrant and diverse community. There are so many wonderful places a neighborhood walk can take us. This time the Grasshopper preschoolers took a trip to nearby Dottie's Donuts , a local vegan bakery. After learning a little about the shop, one of the owners took time to...
