Dear Parents,

May the fourth be with you! It’s Star Wars day and it’s also TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK!

We have been making sure the teachers get some treats every day this week to feel appreciated and we are well on the way to collecting a FANTASTIC FUND for their end of the school year bonuses! If you’d like to contribute, please make a donation via the PayPal Giving Fund or reach out to Liz be invoiced for a donation.

This is also a reminder that our new tuition rates begin this month. Along with the new rates, we are now being charged 1% up to $10 for payment processing through quickbooks. While this is the cost of doing business and factored into our overall costs, we ask that you either:

• pay your invoices in full through quickbooks, so that we incur only a max $10 fee

• or sign up for ACH!

  • We process payments on both the 1st and the 15th of each month if you’d like to split your tuition payments into two!

  • Just send Liz and email and we will get you signed up!

As our school year comes to a close, we are working on new classroom assignments for a lot of our students beginning on June 1! There will be parent information meetings coming up via zoom for you to meet your child’s new teacher and ask any questions. We know transitions can be difficult for some children, and we will be doing our best to make it run as smoothly as possible. While there are dates currently on the calendar, we have not yet scheduled those meetings, so please bear with us!

School photos last week were ADORABLE! Our parent volunteer is working on getting the images to us, so please be patient. Once we have those photos loaded into your family accounts, we will send you your link and password through email and brightwheel!

There has also been some exciting news on the advocacy front! President Biden has proposed quite a lot of support for families and early childhood educators in the American Families Plan. You can access that here.

Thank you all for being a part of Common Ground and showing us every day how much you appreciate our teachers and what we do here!

Love,

The CG Team!