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Events, opportunities and resources for our Garden community.
Spring Egg Hunt
Join us in welcoming Spring
Saturday, March 23
Bunny helpers needed.
This traditional Garden event is open to all current and incoming students and their siblings. Different age groups will hunt for eggs in different areas of the school. Be sure sign up and contribute eggs for each egg hunting child in your group.
Visit our Spring Egg Hunt page for :
- What to bring
- Sign up your child
- Volunteer as bunny helper
- Spring Egg Hunt Itinerary and Map
Donate a service, experience or item.
Wow! We have some wonderful items coming in for our auction and the class basket ideas are amazing!
We Can’t Do It Without You!
Visit our Auction Donation page for ways to participate!
We appreciate the time and talent you give. Thank you for being part of our Garden community!
The Mousehole
Happy Leprechaun Day! We had so much fun with you all! Leprechaun Day is one of our ‘high holy days’ here at The Garden. These special days throughout the school year build lifelong memories. Donna’s daughter, Samantha, had her ‘gold’ on her dresser all through her school years and college years and even took it to Senegal with her childhood stuffy when she served with the Peace Corps. It’s now going around the country in their retro RV. We hope you hold fast to these memories as well. Our next big event is next weekend, our All-School Spring Egg Hunt! Please RSVP online and in the gazebo and bring one dozen hard boiled dyed eggs for each of your ‘hunters’ to the school before Friday afternoon so that the bunny can hide the eggs for our wonderful egg hunt Saturday morning. The bunny can use some helpers! Please consider volunteering to help hide eggs when you RSVP.
Ladybugs
The teachers so enjoyed our parent teacher conferences with our Ladybug families. It is so wonderful to work as a team with these little Gardeners. The teachers always like to speak with our parents and learn a little bit more about all of the family dynamics. Everyone did a great job of coordinating our conferences – big thank you to Brin!- and signing on on time – we are excited to watch these little bugs grow at The Garden for the next few months before they graduate to become Crickets! How we loved our Leprechaun Day tricks! Thank you to all our guests for joining us for this fun day! After our party, the Ladybugs worked on our Bunnies for our Egg Hunt décor, and read some fun Leprechaun stories. We tried to catch some quick news from each of our bugs and worked further on our spring Art Show project.
Crickets
Our Crickets had a fun week! We welcomed our new friend, Kennedi! Kennedi joined us on Monday with a bang! It feels like she has been here all along! Welcome Dani and Kevin when you see them at the gazebo. We had a nice time this week, making Leprechaun hats and reading Leprechaun stories. The students made stamper books based on emotion cards – choose three emotions, use them in the leprechaun story. We started making our beautiful painted eggs to use as décor for our Egg hunt in just one week! Oh my! How we loved our Leprechaun Day celebration with our Crickets – You guys showed up with your tricks this morning! Thank you so much for joining us.
Honeybees
Honeybees, wow! Can you believe that we are here? We are at the point of the school year where we culminate our nursery rhyme recitations, singing songs in Cricket class, and all of our mini reports in the Honeybee class – to Our World Culture Reports!? What a brave group of Honeybee girls kicked us off with Cali presenting Switzerland, Mira presenting Australia and Ada presenting Italy. They each did a fabulous job of setting the bar high for these presentations. Thank you to Cali, Mira and Ada’s parents for your help as well. We hope you enjoy watching the video of your child’s report. They did an awesome job! We had fun decorating our favorite animal drawings for the art show, started our self-portraits for the art show, and had fun working with patterns to decorate our Egg Hunt Carrots. We practiced writing our names in upper- and lower-case letters and we clapped out the syllables of all our names at circle time. While we were doing this activity, we were excited to learn how many of our honeybees could read the names of their classmates. These kiddos are certainly getting Kindergarten ready!
We so enjoyed our Leprechaun Day with our Honeybees. The tricks were a little bit trickier, and the circle of grownups was a little bit sweeter, knowing that it is our last with these kiddos. We hope you had fun finding gold and will hold on to these memories for a long time. These moments in time are so precious. We are thrilled to be a part of them with you.
We hope you have a fantastic weekend and enjoy the beautiful spring weather. Next weekend is the All School Spring Egg Hunt!
Cricket Leprechaun Day!
Gratitude Corner
Thank you to all of our Leprechaun Day guests! We had so much fun watching your tricks and watching your child’s face as they showed you around their school. It’s always a highlight for us here at The Children’s Garden to let you all have a glimpse of the fun that we witness every day. Thank you for joining us.
~ Office Notes~
Year End Tax Statements
Donations made to The Children’s Garden
We are so appreciative of everyone for giving and helping support The Children’s Garden. Year end tax statements for donations were sent out this week. Please call or email the office if you did not receive yours.
Tuition paid to The Children’s Garden
This year, Brightwheel will be providing a direct link to your year-end tax statement.
If you need your year-end payment summary now, visit our tax reports page for video tutorial and printable instructions.
Calendar
Please mark your calendar with these important dates.
March
March 20: Cricket Parent Teacher Conferences during class time (no school for Crickets)
March 20. 5-7 pm: Movie Night at Teacher Donna’s open to Crickets and Honeybees
March 23: Spring Egg Hunt
Save the Date
April 26: Art Show
May 4: Auction Prom ~ Forever Young
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.