The Temple

Preschool
by Corye Nelson & Jan Huettner
Preschool Receives Wall to Wall Support
We are so excited to announce that two of our
preschool classrooms will be getting new floors during the
Thanksgiving Holiday break. The Brachot (Infant classroom)
and Neshamah (Toddler 1 classroom) rooms will have the
carpet and VCT flooring removed from their classrooms and
new flooring will be installed. The new flooring will consist of a
premium vinyl material with a wood grain finish. This is the same
type of flooring being used in many hospitals and will provide
a warm and inviting, yet sanitary and easy to clean alternative,
to our current flooring. It is a project that Mark Shepard and
Corye have been working on for quite a while and finally it is
coming to fruition. The ultimate plan is to have the floors in ALL
of the classrooms
replaced. As you
can imagine, this
will be quite a
costly project.
The Temple
has been very
gracious to
agree to sponsor
these first two
classrooms, and
now it is on us
to raise enough
funds to complete
the project.
Here’s where
our parents,
grandparents, and
friends of the preschool can help.
The Parent
Committee has been hard at work planning the Temple
Preschool’s first “grown up” fundraiser. The fundraiser will
be called “Wall to Wall Support” and 100% of the funds raised
at this event will go towards replacing the floors in our entire
school. We hope to raise enough money to reach our goal and
will appreciate your donation in support of our renovation.
PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS and line up a baby sitter
now for the evening of November 28 th . We will have a
wonderful wine and cheese soiree in the Temple’s Art Gallery
(Meeting rooms A & B). The backdrop for this wonderful event
Wall to wall
Support
for our
Temple
Preschool
will be our own student artists’ paintings, as we have once again
been given the honor of having them display their art work as
the featured artists for the month of November.
Before we say goodbye for the month, we would like
to recognize our own Corye Nelson for the amazing job that
she did in chairing the Tennessee Association for the Education
of Young Children’s State Conference which was held on Friday,
October 12 th in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Corye worked
diligently for the past several years with her committee to
attract world-class professional speakers and educators
from across the country to lead and guide approximately
one thousand preschool and early education teachers from
across the state
of Tennessee.
They presented
“cutting edge”
topics on a
variety of
subjects including
the latest in
brain research,
emergency
preparedness,
professional
development,
emergent literacy,
health issues for
children and
how we can
respond, the
administrator’s role in promoting cultural diversity, math and
science innovations, music, infant and toddler interactions,
and finding inspiration in the Reggio Emilia approach. This
was just a sampling of some of the workshops that were
presented, and all of us who attended the conference came
back refreshed and inspired. We had several teachers (Ms.
Melissa Sostrin, Ms. Lindsey Lienert, and Ms. Stephanie “Moon”
Bishop) who presented workshops at the conference, as well.
We congratulate our teachers and our director for their
participation and guidance that took place at this prestigious
conference.
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