The Child & Family Network Centers

We had an End of Year Tea Party today! 🫖☕️💐We spent the day celebrating all our teachers and staff for their hard work this school year before our summer classes start!

Thank you!💚🩵💚

All 8 of our classes graduated preschool this week! ✨🎓✨We are so proud of all our students and glad we had one more chance to celebrate everyone who worked so hard this year!

Thank you , Gail, and Dagobert for all of your donations that made the book fair possible this year! 💚🩵💚

are here today for their annual Impact Day! We are so excited that they have joined us and we will be sharing updates throughout the day!

We had a board meet and greet this afternoon at our main office! ✨👋✨Our teachers, staff, and board members had a lovely time getting to meet each other and learn more about what everyone does for CFNC.

The weather was so nice today, one of our Wheeler classes enjoyed a picnic with ice cream and watermelon during their outside time!

Our kids all got to pick an insect they wanted to paint and display outside the classroom! 🐜🐛🦋Swipe to see all of their beautiful work!

Happy Memorial Day from The Child and Family Network Centers! ⭐️🇺🇸⭐️

The second half of May has been our Insect study! 🐜🪲Painting different insects they see outside has been one of the favorite activities this unit.

Thank you everyone who joined us for our Spring Benefit last week! 🩵☀️💚We had a wonderful time celebrating creating brighter futures for 40 years!

Our friends from 6th grade class have been completing their final visits and we are so thankful for all their time! They brought a fun activity for our students where they created adorable animals out of egg cartons, pipe cleaners, and puff balls! 🐞🐥🐢

Thank you all!🩵💚

Thank you so much to The Zebra Press - GOOD News in Alexandria, VA for taking some lovely photos during our Spring Benefit last night!

PHOTO ABLUM Child & Family Network Centers Spring Benefit 5/9/2024 https://photos.app.goo.gl/3x6aAVfpPEA9NF3J7
The Child & Family Network Centers (CFNC)
Spring Benefit celebrated 40 years May 9, 2024 at
Above ALX Community Congratulations to
Executive Director Barbara McLaughlin and her hardworking team, board of directors and volunteers. Kudos to Drew Carroll for emceeing the "Paddle Raise."
( From their website Home - The Child & Family Network Centers https://cfnc-online.org/ )
"We prepare and empower children and families for success in school and life.
Started by a group of mothers living in the Charles Houston Area of Alexandria in 1984, CFNC is the ONLY Alexandria, Virginia nonprofit providing free, high quality, multilingual preschool and family support for our area’s community based on their income. Today we’re teaching 139 of Alexandria’s kids–providing early education and family support services."
●Photo Album-Child & Family Network Centers Spring Benefit 5/9/2024
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3x6aAVfpPEA9NF3J7

Tonight is our Spring Benefit and we are so excited to celebrate creating brighter futures for 40 years!🎉🥳

Teacher Appreciation Week is here and we love our teachers! 💕 We decorated their classroom doors with personalized photos for the first day of the week to emphasize that “our teachers are out of this world!”🪐

It’s May and our pet study is in full swing! 🐶🐱In the pretend play area, our students have been acting as veterinarians and doing check-ups on their stuffed animals!

Thank you! 🩵💚🩵

As part of our simple machine study our students made orange juice! 🍊🧡They focused on how the juicer works, and the best ways to move the orange to make juice. This activity helped them further develop their gross motor skills!

There's still time to help us meet our goal and support Alexandria students and families for Spring2ACTion by following this link: https://www.spring2action.org/organizations/the-child-family-network-centers ! A donation to The Child & Family Network Centers could go towards new playground equipment or allowing us to have 4 family support workers. 🛝🥳

Pictured are some of our family support workers and behavioral specialist showing their support for CFNC today!

The day has come and Spring2ACTion is finally here! 🌻✨We are halfway to our goal but need your help to get to the finish line! Your donations allow CFNC to have a third teacher in our classrooms as well as Family Support Workers who help our families connect to resources outside of the classroom. Make a donation today by going to our Spring2ACTion link: https://www.spring2action.org/organizations/the-child-family-network-centers

Alexandria's Day of Giving, Spring2ACTion is tomorrow!🎉 Please consider making a donation to CFNC and helping us create Brighter Futures for our families by following this link: https://www.spring2action.org/organizations/the-child-family-network-centers

April has been our Simple Machine Study! This week the kids were learning about wheels and axles by riding skateboards on the playground. 🛹 This activity helps them refine their gross motor skills and learn how wheels make work simpler!

Alexandria’s giving day, Spring2ACTion, is next week on April 24! Early giving is open now. Please consider making a donation to help us meet our goal by clicking the link in our bio!

Alexandria’s giving day, Spring2ACTion, is next week on April 24! Early giving is open now. Please consider making a donation to help us meet our goal here: https://www.spring2action.org/organizations/the-child-family-network-centers

Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day is Tomorrow! 🍦 Please stop by the Old Town Alexandria or National Harbor locations and enjoy some free ice cream while supporting CFNC!

CFNC is proud to stand with by displaying pinwheels at our Wheeler Avenue Headquarters. The pinwheel stands for the wonderful childhood that every child deserves. CFNC believes in building a brighter future for every child. ☀️

Eid Mubarak from The Child & Family Network Centers! 🌟✨

Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day is coming up next week! 🍦✨ CFNC will be at both the Old Town Alexandria and National Harbor locations, and we would love to see you there! Come out and enjoy free ice cream and community on April 16.