“the world is mud-licious and puddle-wonderful.” -ee cummings PIC joins schools, families, and children around the world in celebrating International Mud Day on June 29th, a joyous day of full-body contact with one of nature’s most basic materials. Humans have been working with mud as a creative and...
Be a Part of ArtStart!! Join in the planning of a fun-filled adult evening of buffet dinner and cocktails, art appreciation, silent auction bidding and raffle prize drawings! This year’s annual event is happening on Thursday, October 22 and your help is ne eded! The first organizing meeting for our...
Creativity Abounds at PIC Many years ago when I began teaching I loved having the children participate in what I thought were creative art experiences that included projects such as tracing our hands and adding feathers to create Thanksgiving turkeys or adding “googly eyes” to the pre-cut Halloween...
Last fall we converted a copy room into a Recycleteria complete with bins and bins of natural and man-made items. Classrooms “shop” for shells, rocks, ribbon, bottle caps, paint chip samples or an array of recyclable items. Then the children create marvelous art, using items for counting or sorting...
If someone were to ask you to think about some words to describe what life is like today, what words would come to mind? Would you focus on words like “stressful,” “nonstop,” “not having enough time, with too much to do?” Did you think about the moments that bring you joy, large and small, or did...
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...
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...
All PIC families are invited to join us at Smith Memorial Playground in Fairmount Park on Thursday, May 28 from 5:30 pm until 7:30 pm. PIC will provide sandwiches and drinks and we ask families to bring side dishes and desserts (and earn a PPP hour for your effort.) The playground is reserved that...
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...
