A NEW BEGINNING

It is with a heavy heart that I share with you, that after 44 years, our beloved Playschool must leave it's current location. RPI has asked us to relocate, so off-campus we go. After a month-long search, we have discovered our new heaven. We will be moving to the Jermain Church at 601 5th Avenue in Watervliet, NY. It's just across the river and a few blocks south from the Troy location. Located in a residential neighborhood, we now have our own space in the back corner of an old, stone church built in 1876! I think it will accommodate our needs just fine. We are having a sale at the old site next week to sell items we will not bring with us to the church. Everything else is packed and ready to move on Monday, July 9th.

We are currently looking for children to enroll in our new program, now renamed Laugh and Learn Playschool. If anyone reading this post knows of preschool age children who may not have already enrolled in a program, please send them our way. We are also going to offer a two-year-old mini-program option. Leave a comment below if you would like more information about either the preschool or pre-three programs. Wish us luck!

SMARTY-PANTS

Last week we were doing a weather theme in Playschool. One of my 3-year-olds was playing a board game with me and two other children. You had to spin to see how many spaces to move. As you went around the board, you landed on spaces that indicated one of four types of weather - sunny, rainy, windy or snowy. Everyone had a set of playing cards representing those four types of weather. Each time you landed on a space, you had to turn over the card that represented the weather of the space you landed on. This one child had only one card left and he had figured out how many spaces he needed to move to win, so he spun the spinner and it landed on the wrong number. So he spun it again. Still not the number he needed. The third time, he just turned the spinner to the number he needed and won the game. His dad was watching him and thought that he shouldn't cheat like that. I was just stunned at how clever he was (at THREE YEARS OLD!) to figure it all out!