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Dear Kid’s Garden Parents,

We’re proud to announce that we are developing a new program and curriculum! Kid’s Garden has always had an especially diverse student body and staff, and we’ve decided to utilize this by developing a way for your children and others to learn geography, intercultural understanding, and foreign languages at a young age.  We feel that the best place to start is with what we know, that is, what your children know. By involving their heritage, language, and culture in our curriculum, our children can at once learn from each other and better appreciate the values and customs they have grown up with.  We start immediately, and we’d much appreciate your help! To begin with, the list attached contains many objects, places, and people that your children interact with on a daily basis. If you child’s native language is not English, or if you’d like to incorporate any other language into their lives, please fill out the translations.  You may either print it and bring the handwritten copy, or simply return this email with the words contained. Through multilingual labels, games, and activities, we are confident that we can expand your child’s vocabulary in a new way! Remember though, this curriculum is not limited to international students – on the sheet attached, there is a small section for you to tell us a little about where you came from, whether you’ve been in Ann Arbor all your life, or whether you’ve come from across the world. We are interested in having all our students teaching, and all our students learning. Everyone can bring both to the table.

In addition, we’ll be taking more field trips and bringing in new guest speakers! All of these will focus on intercultural understanding and education – cultural centers, artists, and storytellers from all over the world will be coming to meet with us.

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions, please feel free to let us know! We’d love to hear what you think.

We are excited about working with all of you in a new way!

Sincerely,
Kid’s Garden

Today’s pizza and pajamas was so much fun. The kids had a great time customizing their pizza to their specific taste. Smelling, feeling, tasting they were able to experience their toppings and with full knowledge they were able to top their own personal sized pizza.

Here’s some pictures from todays fun:

Hello parents!

Kids Garden is happy to announce a referral program for our wonderful families. If you bring in a friend who later becomes a member of our family, you get one week off your childcare. We hope you’ll share Kids Garden with your children’s playmates.

Here’s to a wonderful fall day!
-yours

This was Kids Gardens fifth year doing the St. Jude’s Trike-a-Thon and what a beautiful day it was to hold this fantastic fundraiser event. With the support of Kids Gardens families we were able to not only enjoy a beautiful day outside on our trikes, but we generated $200 to help with children’s cancer research. Here’s a slideshow of our adventurous day:

Kellen Brynden Alex & Ms Jamie
A few preschoolers show some of their fourth of july projects they made.
Have a safe and fun holiday weekend from Kids Garden!

A reminder, Kids garden is closed July 3rd and 4th!

Summer Science Camp 2008 is off to a great start! We started our summer by exploring sound. We discovered how sound is made and how it travels. We are now working on light. We have investigated shadows and reflections. We will soon explore color and how we use light.

Other topics we are going to cover are Nature, Electricity, Weather, and Matter.

We are looking forward to a great summer! There is still space available if you know a young scientist!

Kids Garden is a year round preschool?! We teach preschool all year long! We are currently enrolling for the summer as well as the fall. Give us a call to set up an appointment to visit (734)-975-9930. Hurry, spaces fill quickly.

Hello everyone and welcome to the Kids Garden website.

We are in the process of updating the website and hope to soon have some new features. We would like you to be able to use this site to find unexpected school closings, the school calendar, activities you and your child/ren can do together at home as well as pictures of the fun activities we do at school.