Newsletter: September 7
Happy First Week of School!
We are so excited to have kicked off our school year program this week with a LOT of updates to share with you!
Welcome and Welcome Back:
With the start of our new school year, we have some staff updates to share with you:
We are excited to welcome Miss Masomah to our Infants and Toddlers Team! She comes to Common Ground after working as a nanny for several Common Ground Families who referred her to us. We are so happy to have her join our community!
We also have Miss Elizabeth to welcome to our Preschool Program! She will be working in the Love Bugs room and comes as a family referral, as she is Miss Victoria’s niece!
Welcome back, Mr. William to our school aged program! William was a Common Ground kiddo from infants through school age, who worked in our Summer Camp program both this summer and last summer, but has decided to come work after school a few days a week!
We are still working to hire a few more staff members to help us close out the center and give us some additional coverage. If you know of anyone looking to work in the classroom, we would love to chat with them!
Picture Day is TOMORROW
Lifetouch will be here for school photos tomorrow morning! We have sent home forms with some picture day tips. You DO NOT need to return the forms for your child to have their pictures taken, but the forms do allow for you to choose a background color and to send in an item to have your child photographed with.
We will do our best to capture sibling photos!
After picture day, we will be sending home physical order forms as well as the link to order through Brightwheel. You will be able to find your child’s code on their order form.
Brightwheel Scheduled Maintenance
🛠️ Scheduled Maintenance!
Brightwheel will be offline for scheduled maintenance between 10 p.m. PDT–11 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, September 7. During the maintenance window, you will not be able to access the brightwheel app or website and any scheduled notifications will be delayed.
Hopefully this doesn’t impact us tomorrow.
Classrooms and Teacher Teams:
We will be having a fall open house so that everyone can come and meet the teachers and see the school later this month, but ahead of that, here’s the list of who’s where at Common Ground:
Bubble Buddies: Miss Nana, Miss Marita, and Miss Susie
Little Penguins: Miss Patty, Miss HuiHui, and Miss Gitti
supporting both infant classrooms: Miss Masomah
Playful Pandas: Miss Simi and Miss Samra
Dancing Monkeys: Miss Delia, Miss Petty, and Miss Kisha
Love Bugs: Miss Yolanda, Miss Kristel, and Miss Elizabeth
Busy Bees: Miss Adella and Mr. Zach
Kindergarten and Specials: Miss Janette
School Aged: Miss Janette and Mr. William
Bus Driver: Mr. Jordon
Administration: Miss Liz, Miss Victoria, and Miss Mimi
Fall Open House is not to be confused with our curriculum meetings that will come during the month of October. At that time, we will share the overview of the curriculums used at Common Ground. For all age groups here, we use the appropriate Creative Curriculum, either Infants, Toddlers, and Twos, Preschool, or Kindergarten. We also use the social emotional curriculum from Second Step.
