Peek at the Week

What are the goals of our preschool programming in Davison?

Because of reviewing county data, our district became aware of the growing population of families of three and four year olds that were not being offered a high quality preschool program to fit the financial and scheduling needs of their family. Our goal is to change this data.

We strive to:

• Offer an adequate amount and type of preschool programs to fit the needs of our Davison population. This means more choices for families that include tuition based, state funded and federally funded programs in both 1/2 and full day options for preschool students.
• Provide strong social emotional and academic foundation for our early learners.
• Achieve Kindergarten readiness by providing *high quality preschool options for 3, 4, and young 5 students.

*High Quality preschool programming is much more that someone thinking a preschool program is high quality because it seems to be running smooth. High quality is defined by offering a state approved curriculum, that aims to teach the state of Michigan's Pre-K standards, a comprehensive school behavior climate program (PBSC), and an accredited evaluation system like the PQAand TQRIS state evaluation systems along with qualified, motivated staff.

Our district is striving to meet the high quality requirements and have added preschool options this year at the Cardinal's Nest. We have added both 3 and 4 year old full day programming and have made the commitment to offering a new summer program specifically to fit the needs of our district's preschoolers.

A bit about our new Davison Schools Cardinal’s Nest summer preschool program...

• Davison Schools Cardinal’s Nest preschool building will be running a preschool summer camp with weekly themes.

Camp themes include: All about Animals, Healthy Bodies, The Great Outdoors,

Literacy (books, being an author, storytelling and digital literacy)

Cooking for Kids, and Music!

• 3, 4, and 5 year old (pre-kindergarteners) are age eligible.

• 6 one-week camp sessions will be offered between June 24th-August 9th

• The summer camp hours will be 9:00-3:00

• A.M. and P.M. latchkey will be offered from 6:00-9:00 a.m. and 3:00-6:00 p.m.

• On-site presentations or developmentally appropriate preschool age field trips for each theme have been scheduled for 4 and 5 year olds. 3 year olds will remain on-site.

• Students will provide a sack lunch each day

• Online registration will be open April 1st

• Registration Tab for summer program registration will be on Davison website: Early Childhood Program tab and DCER tab. No paper registrations will be taken.

• DCER will be offering summer programming for school age children

Summer Camp Pricing:

Families will register and pre-pay for each week before child’s name is added to the weekly roster.

$100 per week

$25 a.m. latchkey

$25 p.m. latchkey

We are very excited to offer this themed enrichment during the summer to our early learners. Flyers will be coming out soon and other advertising. Our price is extremely competitive! Help us get the word out. DCER and Parks and Recreation will be offering a number of summer programs for school age students. Parents can be referred to the DCER tab for more summer program information.

We had the chance to meet as a GSRP staff last Wednesday after our PD to plan our March is Reading Month activities. Consensus was that we will once again have a Family Literacy Day at GSRP. This will be held on Thursday, March 21st and counts as a parent involvement activity for PQA. I will be sending out the schedule by email later this week. The a.m. session will begin at 9:00 and the p.m. session will begin at 1:00. Students will be rotating to classrooms and doing activities that coordinate with "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie", "If you Give a Pig a Pancake" and "If you Give a Moose a Muffin". It should be a fun activity for staff, students, and parents!

We will also kick off our door decorating contest on March 8th. Each classroom team will choose a book theme of their choice to use to decorate their door. Staff will vote and the winner will be announced and receive a special prize on Thursday, March 14th. I am sending out a Google Doc sign up so that we do not duplicate book themes.

We will also have a staff guest reader exchange day where teachers sign up to read to another class at the same time and day. A schedule for that will be posted in the staff lounge.

More details to come regarding the book bus and book giveaway.

Individual classrooms will invite guest readers throughout the month. Please share your guest reader schedule in advance to readers coming in the building. Guest readers to do not need to have a volunteer clearance completed, but do need to be signed into the office.

It is finally here!

Staff and parents and some students will gather this Thursday, March 7th from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Central Elementary to learn about kindergarten program options for your child during the 2019-2020 school years.

The Agenda will include:

• Introductions and upcoming dates (Susan)
  
• Early Learning Data for Genesee County preschoolers (Tosca and Marissa)
  

• Kindergarten round up, schedule, and options for incoming Davison kindergarteners (Natalie)

We will serve pizza in the cafeteria between 5:30-6:00 before the meeting begins. Childcare is being provided in the classrooms by Cardinal’s Nest/GSRP staff. Drop off for childcare is from 6:00-6:10. Parent presentation will begin at 6:15 in the gym. Please continue to sign up for child care.

This week's Staff Spotlight is on Katie Rivette. Katie is a GSRP associate teacher in room 2 (the orange room). This is Katie's second year with our preschool program.

1. What is your favorite activity out of school?

Spending time with my family and cooking.

2. What is your favorite movie or television show?

Mrs. Doubtfire

3. Where would you go on a dream vacation

I would love to take a cross country trip to Alaska with our camper.

4. What is something that no one at work knows about you?

I eat ice cream all year round… :-o

5. Share something fun or amazing that you did this past summer

We went camping up in the picture rocks and went hiking through the trails to see some of the most breathtaking waterfalls.

Thank you for sharing Katie!

Thank you staff for including this reminder in your weekly classroom newsletters:

If you are in district, please call Thomson Elementary (810) 591-0911 to set up your child’s

kindergarten registration appointment. Davison GSRP students are NOT automatically enrolled in Davison Schools.

If you are out of district, but would like your child to attend Davison, you will

have to wait to apply for schools of choice April 26 th -May 10 th . More information regarding

schools of choice will be mailed home to out of district parents, be on the lookout for it.

Monday, March 4th- 9:30 Mt w/ latchkey staff member, Amy H. subbing in a.m. at Hill latchkey for Brenda, Jennie subbing in p.m. at Hill for Logan, Adrienne subbing in p.m. at Hill for Brenda. Amy H for Sabrina at Hahn. Licensing documents due. Notebooks to Hill, Gates, Hahn latchkey. Order pizza for Thursday evening. GSRP lead teachers fill out pre approved PD form from Mr. Lobban for last Wednesday's PD.

Tuesday, March 5th- Jennie subbing for Logan at Hill p.m., Dyllon K for Sabrina at Hahh. 1:30 mtg with T. Kincaid (Susan)

Wednesday, March 6th- Library Board Meeting 4:00 (Susan) Sub needed for Wednesday at Hill, Jennie subbing for Sabrina at Hahn.

Thursday, March 7th- Adrienne subbing for Logan at Hill p.m. Dyllon K at Hahn for Sabrina. Transition to Kindergarten evening 5:30-7:00.

Friday, March 8th- Adrienne subbing for Logan at Hill p.m. Anne S subbing for Sabrina at Hahn. PD for GSRP staff. Please let Carrie and I know which sessions you are attending for payroll purposes.