Holiday Workshop, Annual Drive

Dear Nursery Families,

It was a vibrant and lovely day today.  Children worked and played together, sorted out conflicts, and found ways to be engaged and involved in a task for long periods of time.  Some children played together in groups building and tumbling large structures.  Others created a very small cage for pretend animals.  Other children--without being in conflict to other children--set up elaborate puppet shows and play scenarios that they played and played in alone in peace.  Other children helped me peel and chop vegetables for quite a long time, enjoying a sense of mastery and competence from their growing skills with peelers and knives.

Thank you for remembering so many soup vegetables.

Because the Butterfly Room will be a store at Saturday's holiday workshop, it is probably best to take everything home (as usual) on Wednesday--except for the slippers.  These we will leave for St. Nicholas on a high shelf--rumor is he will visit on Sunday night.

As you may know, a donor has offered $500 to our school for each and every class that has 100% participation in our annual drive.  I encourage you to donate or pledge whatever feels comfortable, no matter how small.  Not only does this help bring about this generous matching gift, it also helps the school apply for other grants--foundations often like to see 100% participation from faculty, staff, board, and parents in an annual drive before they make a donation.

Thank you,

William Geoffrey Dolde