WELCOME HOME!
2022-2023
Last night at the Opening of School Parent Meeting, we welcomed Parents to join
the Staff in person for the first time since 2019 in officially opening the School
Year! Parents of returning 3 and 4 year olds joined those of 2, 3 and 4 year olds
new to our community once again to hear what/why/and how we support the
growth of their children and their parenting.
The classrooms, the third teacher as we call them, are set up to receive the
children tomorrow. Materials are intentionally placed for maximum independent
use by the children. A provocation may be evident to inspire a question,
conversation, beginning of a unit of study by the group. The phase-in schedule
will help the children begin to understand the room, materials, and people in this
new safe place in small groups. Within a few weeks, the entire school will be
humming along with the ups and downs of real pre-school life.
Everything feels fresh and new. The bare walls are the blank canvas for the
emergent of work and documentation of the every-day exploration of materials
and relationships inherent in our life together. The connection between home and school is critical to the operation of a safe school. We need each other. Our Mission honors relationships and its many nuances. They keep us healthy.
I am so relieved and delighted to bring all the pieces of this puzzle together again.
Welcome home!