Newsletter: April 21

Happy Earth Week, Common Ground!

26 years ago, on Earth Day, I (Miss Liz) visited Reston for the very first time. I remember Reston feeling like a garden. The azaleas and daffodils were blooming, and there were several earth day tree plantings happening in the neighborhoods that we were looking at! Last week we started to get our garden boxes ready and we have seeds ready to be planted by our kiddos in the coming weeks!

We are also excited to share that our Nando’s Peri-Peri fundraiser was an amazing success! We raised over $375 from their generous donation! We hope you enjoyed our Peri-Peri dinner, and we hope to do another spirit night there soon.

Speaking of fundraisers - our birthday celebration is far from over. We are so excited about our Spring Stuffy Sleepover - make sure that you sign up so that your Stuffy can sleep over at Common Ground and then get dropped off by the Common Ground Bus!

We also wanted to officially welcome back Miss Susie, Miss Gitti, and Miss Hui Hui! They have joined Miss Nana, Miss Marita, and Miss Patty in our infant rooms!

We have also hired a new teacher - Mr. Stephan! He will be training as our inclusion specialist. This will allow Common Ground to be able to include children of all abilities in our program. He will be training in the Dancing Monkeys Classroom through the end of May and then will transition to the Honeybees Classroom in June.

We also are waiting on a new picture day date. We are hoping that it will be not on a Monday, and will let you know as soon as we have that! With non-Mondays in mind, do you have a local business that you just LOVE? We’d love to get in touch with them and possibly feature them on the “Friends of CG Friday” blog series!

With that, we hope that you are able to spend some time outdoors enjoying our earth!

Love,

The CG Team!