Sig image: Mlanjeni with puppet Last month, PIC pre-K classrooms enjoyed the wonderful storytelling talents of Mlanjeni Magical Theater. Mlanjeni’s show was based on the short story A Long Walk to Water about a young boy in South Sudan. Through engaging storytelling, children learned that not...
Sig image: Annual Fund 2018 collage Give for another 40 years at PIC! You can support PIC's Annual Fund by making a secure online donation today or make a check payable to Parent-Infant Center and mail to: PIC Annual Fund 4205 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Celebrate PIC's 40 extraordinary...
Sig image: ASC Gala - kids with masks We had so much fun celebrating the winter season with staff and families. The After School children presented two terrific Gala performances, with behind-the-scenes hard work and talent of their teachers. Early Learning classrooms absolutely shined with teachers...
Sig image: Tamara and Creative Block Play book As 2016 winds down, it is a great time to celebrate many recent achievements made by PIC staff. In addition to earning bachelors and masters degrees, PIC staff have been making contributions to conferences, curriculum-based books, and early education...
Sig image: MBs with magnatiles Two-year-olds often begin their third year of life playing independently much of the time, but as time goes by, they learn that playing with peers can be rewarding as well. This shift tends to occur naturally as children gain emotional maturity as well as linguistic...
We are grateful to the folks at Liseter for donating 100 coats to our One Warm Coat drive. We have far exceeded our goal of 100 coats, and now have collected 191!! Way to spread the warmth Liseter and all our families and friends! Coat drive goes through the end of December.
Sierra just dropped off 100 coat donations from the Liseter community in New Town Square. This unexpected and very generous donation brought our total to 191 coats...well over our 100 coat goal!! Thank you to all the residents at Liseter for giving warmth to our neighbors in need.
Parent Infant Center infant and young toddler classrooms are mixed-age groups. Working with mixed-age groups can be challenging, but also extremely rewarding. In the Bumblebee classroom our children range from 2-months old to 21-months old. Whew! That is a vast difference! Sometimes older children...
Sig image: girl hugging g'ma tight Every year, on the week of Thanksgiving, we welcome our children's greatest "Grands" into our classrooms, to meet our teachers, and best of all, play with their favorite kids. need18 photos below.
Sig image - PIC bags On Tuesday, November 27, PIC will participate in #GivingTuesday, a global giving movement. Each year, #Giving Tuesday follows on the heels of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday and is a day to celebrate giving and giving back. A gift for you on #Giving...
