I MISS SCHOOL!!!!

This is so hard.  For the first time in 20 years, I’m not starting the year at RHCNS.  Both Vinu (Mrs. G) and I miss the children terribly! I went into the classroom today.   It was sobering walking in a seeing the room exactly the way it was in March.  Name cards were ready…

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Regulations, Conversations, and Webinars, Oh My!

Wow, what a world!   Since the beginning of June I’ve been researching, watching webinars, emailing/talking with other directors as well as our state inspector (and Parent Board) almost daily about how to reopen our school as safely as possible in September.  One of the big differences of our parent co-op is that we are NOT running…

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Keeping Connections

“Zooming” has taken on a new meaning in preschool.  Once upon a time it meant a child was pretending to be an airplane in class, and a teacher would remind them to use “walking feet.”  Now it means teachers have to say, “Please don’t unmute yourself, I can’t hear who’s talking.”  Other times the teacher says, “Whoever is  drawing…

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