Newsletter: April 12
Dear Parents,
We have had so many new families join our community over the last few weeks that we thought we’d share a list of helpful links:
If your child will be absent, please message through brightwheel and report the absence here: https://www.commongroundchildcare.org/absence
we track all illnesses, not just COVID, to look for patterns and make sure that we don’t have any spread, so please communicate any symptoms through the absence form
If you need to sign up for Before or After care, you can sign up here: Before and After Care
Currently, our only volunteer activity is Laundry and the 15 hour per year requirement is on hold. We do need help every week with laundry and your child does not need to be in the class to sign up to wash laundry for us. Sign up here: Laundry Sign-Up
Saturday Hours are on April 30th - you can sign up here.
Our PayPal Giving Fund donation link is: http://paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1778362
If you ever need a link and can’t find it, feel free to message through Brightwheel and we can send it!
It’s Nomination Time:
We have received this honor several years in a row and it’s time for nominations again! You can share what you love about Common Ground with the world (okay, with the readers of Northern Virginia Magazine) by filling out this nomination form:
https://northernvirginiamag.com/best-day-care-and-preschool-poll/
If you have time, we’d love for you to also share why you love Common Ground:
Our best marketing is when you share how much you love us. We are so grateful that most of our new families have been referrals from you!
BYOD - Bring Your Own Dinner
Celebrate Earth Day with us on Friday, April 22nd and bring a picnic dinner to Common Ground! We will have limited tables and tents set up from 4:30pm until 6:30pm (unless we are having so much fun that we need to extend it!), so bring a picnic blanket and dinner for your family!
Don’t want to pack a picnic? We are working on getting a pre-order together for pizza or some other delivery! We will share that information when we have it! Details to follow!
Rain Date for this event will be Friday, April 29th!