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Events, opportunities and resources for our Garden community.
Camp Tree Circle
Led by Teacher Emily on our six acres of beautiful forested land here at The Children’s Garden, this camp capitalizes on the children’s natural curiosity, inquiry and love of play to lead our group though the week.
Session 1 – June 16-19, 9 am-12 pm
Session 2 – June 23-26, 9 am-12 pm
Camp is open to all current students.
Check out our
Parent Portal
We’re excited to offer you a one stop page for all things Garden!
Current Garden Families can visit our private password protected Parent Portal page on our Children’s Garden website using password MyGarden24-25!
Valentines Day
Valentines is special here at The Garden!
Children decorate envelopes during school and “mail homemade valentines to their classmates.
Crickets: Wednesday, February 12
Ladybugs: Thursday, February 13
Honeybees: Thursday, February 13
Visit our Valentines page for more information and class lists.
The Mousehole
Save those empty toilet paper rolls! The teachers would love to use them for lots of upcoming art projects. Drop them in the office or classroom. Thank you!
Ladybugs
We have some new Ladybugs, and we are so excited to welcome them to our community! Please welcome; Alaid and her parents Kristin and Jeff, Iris and her parents Paloma and Zach, Marly and her parents Alexa and Chase and Rhett and his parents Katie and Brian!
Crickets
We didn’t see you very much this week, but are excited to see you next week, when we are all about “love’ and ‘valentines’! Can’t wait to spend the week talking about love, prepping our Valentines’ envelopes and having our ‘jammy day’ next Friday.
Honeybees
The Bees enjoyed playing in the snow and turning our attention to “LOVE”. We ‘sounded out’ who we love and drew pictures of ourselves and our loved ones together, and wrote out by memory our three ‘sight words’, I Love You.
Our poem selection each week this February is all by black authors in honor of Black History month. We loved our Langston Hughes poem, Hold Fast to Dreams, and this week we had a giggle when we learned that a snowman cannot walk, but can ‘run’ when it melts, down the sidewalk.
Next week, we are all about Valentines! Wear your jammies and mail your greetings in each of your classmates’ envelopes.
Have a great weekend!
Ladybugs
Ladybugs
Crickets
Honeybees
..and we’re off! Auction procurement is underway!
Our annual auction is a wonderful opportunity to support our school and students while enjoying an evening of fun and community.
Save the date for this year’s Kentucky Derby themed event held May 2 at The Lodge at Trinity Tree Farm
To make this year’s auction a success, we need your help in securing amazing auction items!
From now until March 31, we will be procuring donations to auction off at this year’s event.
Gratitude Corner
We’d love to give a shoutout to the local school district bus drivers who send out representatives at 5 am every morning to let the rest of the community know if the roads are safe or not. In the past, the staff of The Garden have been awake at 5 am, texting each other on whether or not they can make it to school or not, most of us admitting that we have not been out on the roads to check it out, but only able to report on our personal driveways. We so appreciate the local school district transportation experts who let us know by 6 am whether or not the majority of people can drive safely or not. It’s been a crazy week of weather and we appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding.
Office Notes
News and reminders from the office.
Children’s Garden Handbook
We so appreciate our Children’s Garden Board for the many hours they spend working to keep our school running smoothly including all the hard work updating our Children’s Garden Handbook!
View, download and print our handbook at the link below and on our Parent Portal or stop by the office for a hard copy.
No Bad Kids Master Course
Discipline without Shame
with Janet Lansbury
Get 50% off the No Bad Kids Master Course and join a Garden discussion group in the spring.
Visit our No Bad Kids Master Course page for information about the course, financial aid and how to get your discount code.
Parent Teacher Conferences
Laedybugs: Tuesday, March 11
(no school for Ladybugs)
Crickets: Wednesday, March 19
(no school for Crickets)
Honeybees: Tuesday, March 25
(no school for Honeybees)
Sign up links and more information are on our Parent Teacher Conference page
Handy?
From playground toys to classroom chairs, the wear and tear on our items can always use the help of a handy parent or grandparent.
Whether you have a few minutes or a few hours, we have jobs both big and small for take home or work on campus.
Let us know if you can help out.
Calendar
Please mark your calendar with these important dates.
February
- February 17-21 Second Winter Break
- February 27: No school for Teacher conference planning day
March
- March 11: Ladybug Conferences (no school for Ladybugs)
- March 13: Leprechaun Day: Ladybugs
- March 17: Leprechaun Day: Crickets and Honeybees
- March 19: Cricket Conferences (no school for Crickets)
- March 25: Honeybee Conferences (no school for Honeybees)
Daily Class Schedule
Ladybugs
Tuesday and Thursday 8:15 – 10:45 am
Crickets
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8:15 – 11:15 am
Honeybees
Monday-Thursday 12:15 – 3:15 pm
~ Poems~
School Poems
Part of our daily routine at The Garden is singing or saying a few of our traditional poems.
Find a printable version to our Closing Circle Song, and the poem “We Light This Candle” at the following links.