Newsletter: March 15
Dear Parents,
Virginia (early) Spring Weather is doing what it always does: catching us by surprise! One minute it’s sunny and warm, the next it’s rainy and chilly! We have been going on a lot of nature exploration walks with all our classes and enjoying ample time outside, so thank you so much for making sure your kiddo has appropriate weather attire and shoe attire.
Reminder that Saturday hours are THIS WEEK from 9:00AM-2:30PM! If you haven’t signed up but would like to partake, check it out HERE.
Thank you all so much! You were good company with the noodles :)
Between the Mod Pizza Fundraiser and the Noodles and Company Fundraiser, our families earned $218.29 for the center! We are so glad that we got to “eat dinner” with you, even apart. Did anyone in your family try something new? Is there a restaurant you would love to see featured this way? Let us know in the comments!
We have Family Fundraiser Nights each month! Check out our calendar and find your new local favorite dinner place! How can you help make these succeed? Share our Facebook Events and Flyers with all your local friends and family! Who doesn’t like a ready-made, delicious family dinner?
We have a few posts from the last couple of days to share with you.
One is about the Persian New Year’s Celebration Nowruz! Ms. Gitti taught our four-year-old classes all about it last week. The holiday occurs on the first day of Spring each year!
Read more about it Here.
We also have written a post about how to talk to help out the Ukraine. One of the main ways we suggest is encouraging them to think about how to be helpful and comforting to those in need.
Read more about it Here.
If you like these posts, you should subscribe to our blog! We write posts about holidays, recommended books, issues children face, and family friendly activities! We love sharing our world and thoughts with you, so if there is ever anything you’d like to see OR share, let us know.
That’s all our news for today! Stay tuned to find out how we are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day later this week!
Love,
Your CG Family
Newsletter: February 22
Dear CG Family!
We hope you enjoyed the federal holiday yesterday! It is the LAST time Common Ground will be closed for a holiday until the Friday before and the Monday of Memorial Day weekend! We have a lot of great information packed into this weeks newsletter, so make sure to read on!
Today is our Mod Pizza Fundraiser! Support your school by ordering from the Plaza America Mod Pizza. We get 20% of sales! Show our flyer in store or use the code MODF2789 when ordering from the website or app.
Can’t do this fundraiser? That’s okay! We have Family Fundraiser Nights each month! Check out our calendar and find your new local favorite dinner place! How can you help make these succeed? Share our Facebook Events and Flyers with all your local friends and family! Who doesn’t like a ready-made, delicious family dinner?
Mod Pizza: February 22nd I Noodles and Company: March 9th I Chipotle: April 11th I On the Border: June 2nd
Is your kid into Disney’s Magic Bake-Off?
We know how hard it can be to plan any evening activities that do not involve a screen, especially when the weather has been so unpredictable! We want to be creative and fun for our kids, but it can be so hard to muster the energy.
We have done a write up with some simple, easy to clean up baking activities you can do with your imaginative youngster HERE. If you try them out, let us know, and share your own baking recipes and stories in the comments!
Read Across America Day is Wednesday, March 2nd - Whacky Wednesday!
NEA's Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading with the theme: Celebrating a Nation of Diverse Readers.
It’s also a celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday! If your students haven’t started reading Dr. Seuss in their classroom to begin their celebration, they will soon! Here is a picture of Ms. Petty reading Dr. Seuss to the Rising Stars.
How can we celebrate together?
Reading isn’t just for quiet time! Reading is for together time. Reading is for adventure time. Reading is for silly, fancy, wonder time.
We will be celebrating all next week! We will send out exactly how tomorrow, so stay posted!
See you next week!
Your CG Family
Newsletter: October 12
Dear Parents,
We hope you had a wonderful three day weekend! We know that our staff really appreciated the day off to recharge! We have a lot of information to share in this newsletter!
COVID
We have two pieces of information to share with you.
First, we have had to quarantine both of our infant classrooms again due to a child testing positive for covid. The child has very mild symptoms of nasal congestion that developed on Friday and persisted through the weekend. They were tested on Monday and it returned a positive result. We are working with the health department on the next steps for those classrooms, but as of this point all students in both classrooms that attended the center last week are at home in quarantine. We have determined that there were no additional contacts within the center.
Miss Adella also tested positive for covid when testing for her return trip from Barbados. She is currently doing well and has no symptoms, but has to quarantine before she can return to the US. We do not currently have a return date for her.
Teachers are getting booster shots! We are very lucky again that the FDA felt that educators should be included for Booster Shots! We are working through making sure that every staff member who wishes to get a booster has the opportunity and time to be able to do so! As of right now, Liz, LJ, Victoria, Susie, Gitti, and HuiHui have all gotten boosted!
Covid Policy Reminder:
If your child becomes symptomatic, you must provide a lab report indicating a negative covid test result or a doctors note indicating that an alternative diagnosis (not covid) has been made with instructions from the physician on when they can return to care. Keep in mind that a doctor may give return to care instructions that are different from our policies that are in place through our state licensing requirements or the local health department. In that case, the center policy will be followed. At this time, then health department has recommended that we not accept the results of at home rapid antigen testing for return to care.
Asymptomatic siblings must remain home until you have provided the lab results or physician’s note for the symptomatic sibling.
Covid symptoms in children are as follows:
Fever or chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue and “not acting like themselves”
Muscle or body aches
Headache
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
If you have any questions please check our FAQ, email Liz, or call/text Liz.
OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY MORNING: 10AM-12PM
** Please Park ON THE BLACKTOP ONLY. The gate will be open!!!**
Reminder that we will be having our fall open house this Saturday morning from 10am to 12pm. This is an opportunity to stop by to see your child’s classroom and speak briefly with their teachers! We ask that you:
wear a mask
stay home if you are sick
plan to keep your time with the teacher brief
spend no more than 10 minutes indoors
keep social distance from children not in your own household, especially when indoors
But before the open house…
Friday night is PIZZA NIGHT!
Common Ground is hosting Reston’s Largest Pizza Party Ever!! This is an event that anyone that can participate in. Just have pizza with your family on Friday night share with us that you participated! You can upload photos here and RSVP to our event on Facebook!
Enjoy Pizza Nights? Have some extra delicious pizza kits ready to go in your freezer from our Little Caesar’s Pizza Fundraiser!
Classroom Spotlight:
Our 4s teachers are absolutely incredible at what they do to get their kiddos ready for kindergarten.What’s the main thing they focus on? Self-Motivated Learning. This requires our preschoolers to feel safe, supported, and free to explore their surroundings without fear.
How do they help their preschool students feel comfortable in the classroom? Read all about it HERE
Thank you for being a part of our community! Please make sure you check out our upcoming events below!