May 2024
We are so happy that the weather has been warmer outside so the children can spend time outside on the playground and taking walks around the neighborhood. One of the things the children enjoy the most outside is the bubble machine. It's so much fun watching the children chase after the bubbles trying to catch and pop them.
Our Purim Celebration was so much fun! Children and staff came to school dressed in their costumes and we gathered...Read more...
March 2024 News
It has been so wonderful visiting classrooms over the past several weeks to observe classes learning about Winter, hibernation, Tu BiShvat, emotions, body and nutrition, dental health and so much more. I am always so impressed with how our teachers transform their dramatic play areas to support these units of study. For example, when the Penguin class was learning about hibernation, their dramatic play area was made into a bear cave. I also get...Read more...
January 2024 News
We had a wonderful November here at Monica Lynne Neidorff ECC. Thanks to several unseasonably warm days for this time of year, our ECC kiddos got to spend quite a lot of time playing outdoors. With the leaves falling from the trees and landing on our playground the children could be seen gathering the leaves into a pile and jumping into them or just randomly picking the leaves off the ground and throwing them up into the air, just to...Read more...
November 2023 News
Our school year at Monica Lynne Neidorff Early Childhood Center is off to a great start! With the Jewish holidays starting a little earlier this school year, we jumped right into learning, exploring and celebrating.
We had an incredible Grandparents Shabbat in early September in honor of Grandparent’s Day. During Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Arnow visited the classrooms to blow the shofar for the children to hear. Classes also tasted a...Read more...
September 2023 News
We had such a great summer here at Monica Lynne Neidorff Early Childhood Center. Each class planned activities around the summer theme, “Around the world in 80 days”. Students spent time visiting the Australian Outback, the Rolling Hills of Ireland, Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, Kotel in Israel, and so much more.
We are so excited for the 2023-2024 school year. Right before the school year started, teachers attended professional...Read more...
July 2023 News
On Friday, May 12th, we had a wonderful Starfish graduation ceremony. Families gathered in The Michael Staenberg Family Community Hall to celebrate the accomplishments of the graduates. The Starfish performed a play based on the book, Caps for Sale. They also sang and danced to songs that they had learned throughout the year with Ms. Karen Kern, our Music teacher and Ms. Sarah Anne Patz, our Music and Movement teacher. To end the graduation...Read more...
May 2023 News
Monica Lynne Neidorff Early Childhood Center has been busy the last few months with holidays.
On March 7th, ECC families paraded together to the Kol Rinah Community Hall for a Purim Family Program. The children were adorable in their costumes. During the program, children and families were treated to hearing the Purim story reenacted in a puppet show and then afterward everyone sang and danced to Purim songs with Ms. Karen...Read more...
March 2023 News
In December, families joined us at the center for a family program that included Hanukkah related crafts in classrooms and a sing along with Ms. Karen Kern. Rabbi Noah Arnow also joined our program and sang the blessing for lighting the menorah.
In February, classes celebrated Tu BiShvat. Throughout the week, lots of singing of “Happy Birthday to the trees” could be heard in the hallways. Classes also learned about the parts of a...Read more...
January 2023 News
In November, the Monica Lynne Neidorff Early Childhood Center experienced its first family program at the new center. A few days before Thanksgiving, children, parents, and grandparents joined together in the sanctuary for a fall musical sing-along with Ms. Karen. She sang songs that expressed thankfulness for gathering, including her "Todah Rabah "(thank you) song, a song about leaves changing color and falling to the ground, a song about...Read more...
November 2022 News
Fall is always such a wonderful time for our ECC. All of our classes have officially settled into this school year and have gotten acquainted with teachers, friends, and class routine. As you walk down the hallway, classrooms are decorated for Fall. Trees displayed in classroom windows that once had green leaves are now adorned with red, orange, yellow and brown leaves. Some of the leaves are dangling from the trees and some have fallen on the...Read more...
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