We’re so glad for your support and so proud of our children.
Happy New (school) Year!
We’ve had a wonderful year with our children and are so grateful for your support as we walk alongside our families. As you know, we’re the only program in Madison accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and we’re the only program that has embraced a Reggio Emelia approach to early education based on discovery, meaningful play, and each child’s natural curiosity. This year we successfully ran our first full year of our new infant and toddler program and, with your support, expanded the toddler program this spring to accommodate more families.
2016/17 by the numbers
It’s hard to believe 2016/17 is over and we’ll be welcoming our families back to the center on August 7th to start the next school year. Looking back, we are so proud of these statistics from the past year:
100% of children entering Kindergarten in 2017 met or exceeded national benchmarks on the Get Ready to Read assessment-25 literacy-based questions.
91% of the children entering Kindergarten in 2016 met 6 personalized and developmentally appropriate HELP (Hawaiian Early Learning Profile) goals per quarter–social/emotional, self-help, cognitive, physical, and communication.
All of our infants and toddlers have demonstrated developmentally appropriate growth and all are reaching their age-range milestones as assessed by Frogstreet Infant/Toddler trackers for measuring Cognitive, Social/Emotional, Physical, and Language Development.
We hosted 6 parent workshops and 14 family events
Served over 34,065 meals to fill little bellies
Provided over 5000 pieces of construction paper to capture thoughts anddreams
Used over 50 gallons of assorted paints tempera, water colors, dot paintto express feelings, create, and explore
Over 200 containers of playdough used (and that’s not counting thehomemade playdough made here!)
Our older children spent at least 11.25 hours outside each week and our toddlers spent at least 7.5 hours outside exploring
37 dragon/serpents slain, 15,787 books read, 43,503 songs and poems sang, 93 successful babydoll operations, and 1,390 block towers built and knocked down ((Actually, we weren’t keeping count, but come take a peek anytime and you’ll see our wonderful young children’s joy as their imaginations are ignited!))
We wish our 23 children and their families leaving us for Kindergarten so much success. Please keep in touch with us – we were especially delighted to hear from a former family and hear of our impact on one little boy. Like him, you are prepared and you will achieve the highest heights!
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100% of children entering Kindergarten in 2017 met or exceeded national benchmarks on the Get Ready to Read assessment-25 literacy-based questions.
Provided over 5000 pieces of construction paper to capture thoughts anddreams
We wish our 23 children and their families leaving us for Kindergarten so much success. Please keep in touch with us – we were especially delighted to hear from a former family and hear of our impact on
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