We ask that you please label all of your child’s belongings with their name or initials. This includes face masks, water bottles, rain boots, lunch boxes, extra clothes, and any other personal item that is brought to school. Thank you!

Facial Coverings

As a reminder, we are required to abide by the Ohio Department of Health Director’s Order regarding the use of face masks by both adults and children Kindergarten age and older. We require that all parents and caregivers wear a mask at both arrival and dismissal, unless they can consistently maintain a distance of six feet from all others.

We ask that parents send their child in a face mask rather than in a gaiter. We are finding that gaiters do not fit properly to the children’s faces, and thus are continuously falling down and having to be readjusted. They are also very distracting to children (they make a great full hood for dramatic play; fun, but not the purpose of wearing a face covering!)

Thank you for your attention to these important safety and compliance measures.

As the weather is turning cooler, please send your child in layers or with a jacket to wear in the chillier part of the morning. Also, please add a long sleeved shirt or pants to your child’s extra clothes so that they have seasonally appropriate gear to change into in the event their clothes become wet or soiled. As a reminder, we will be going outdoors in all types of weather that is above 20 degrees and below 95 degrees, so thank you in advance for making sure your child is ready to have a fun and safe time in all types of weather!

100 languages

 

NO WAY. THE HUNDRED IS THERE

 

The child

is made of one hundred.

The child has

a hundred languages

a hundred hands

a hundred thoughts

a hundred ways of thinking

of playing, of speaking.

A hundred always a hundred

ways of listening

of marveling of loving

a hundred joys

for singing and understanding

a hundred worlds

to discover

a hundred worlds

to invent

a hundred worlds

to dream.

The child has

a hundred languages

(and a hundred hundred hundred more)

but they steal ninety-nine.

 

The school and the culture

separate the head from the body.

They tell the child:

to think without hands

to do without head

to listen and not to speak

to understand without joy

to love and to marvel

only at Easter and Christmas.

They tell the child:

to discover the world already there

and of the hundred

they steal ninety-nine.

They tell the child:

that work and play

reality and fantasy

science and imagination

sky and earth

reason and dream

are things

that do not belong together.

 

And thus they tell the child

that the hundred is not there.

The child says:

No way. The hundred is there.

 

Loris Malaguzzi, founder of the Reggio Emilia philosophy  (translated by Lella Gandini)