Our final full week of school is complete and we set our sights on our final closing circles and next year’s curriculum!

Closing circles are the last 10-15 minutes of each class this next week, and we welcome you to join us. We have prepared a short video presentation for each class’ closing circle and love to share this special closure time with you all.

Although we say goodbye to you all for the summer in the next few days, the staff gets right to work, setting the dates on the calendar for special events and breaks for the 25-26 school year, and honing our curriculum after looking at the results of this year’s themes and projects.

We love to take this time after closing circles to review the year while it is fresh and start to tweak it right away. Emily starts right in leading Camp Tree Circle and we organize, file, clean out, sort and purge the year’s lessons and files, toys and learning materials.

This year, we have an especially special treat, a staff appreciation dinner to look forward to, thanks to all of you. We are excited to have our fine dining night at Marissa Wain’s house, with her sous chefs, Yuri and Mary. Thank you to our parent community for this amazing ‘fund a need’ item. We are so appreciative, and so touched. Thank you also for the beautiful toaster oven/ air fryer for our staff kitchen! We’ve already used it to warm up our lunches and look forward to several Shrinky Dink projects in the future! :0)

Thanks for everything, as always, and have a great weekend! 3,2, and 1 session to go!

Ladybugs –

Our Ladybugs finished up our Dad’s Day gifts and our “All About My Ladybug Year at Preschool” papers. We celebrated Hazel’s birthday and we made some adorable cricket necklaces to celebrate our next step in our educational journey. We learned a song about Crickets and practiced standing to do some solo singing of the Cricket song. How fun to see these kiddos soar!

Crickets –

Lillian celebrated her 5th trip around the sun this week for her July birthday, and we completed our Dad’s Day gifts, and our “All About My Cricket Year at Preschool” papers. We made some adorable Honeybee necklaces to celebrate our next step in our educational journey and we learned a poem about Honeybees and practiced standing to do some solo recitations. How monumental!

Honeybees –

We made necklaces to honor the mascots of our next step in our educational journey, and had a great time reading Cowboy stories and tall tales! Listening to the Bees’ cowboy names was a real hoot and we can’t wait to use ‘em tonight at the Honeybee Roundup at the Okie Dokie Corral!

We finished up our Dad’s Day gifts and completed our “All About My Honeybee Year at Preschool” pages. We had some more fun creek time and recorded some wonderful footage for our closing circle and for our graduation. Bring your tissues! You are going to be so moved (as are we!) with the growth of these Bees!