Stepping Stones Preschool

Lots of fun projects ahead!
Friendly reminder to bring your ROCK to school Monday 👍🏼 About a palm sized flat rock is perfect 🤩
Thank you!

Reminder: today & tomorrow is teddy bear day at preschool! Students are encouraged to bring a teddy bear as part of our jungle unit 🐻

13 more days left for our calendar FUNdraiser! All calendars & donations are due back to school Oct 1st & 2nd 👍🏼
Don’t forget to - each donation day = 1 entry for our $250 Visa gift cars prize!
Fun idea: snap a pic or video of your preschooler holding their calendar & share thru social media and/or text message ⭐️
As always, we appreciate all you do to help support our school 🫶🏼

Come join our first board meeting of the 2024-25 school year on Tuesday, September 24th from 6-7 in the school lobby 🗓️
We welcome new and returning families to come join our Stepping Stones Preschool board members & help us make our school community the very best! 🫶🏼
The Stepping Stones board helps to plan and facilitate the schools fundraisers and special events - lots of hands make light work! We appreciate all that you do to help our school thrive ✨

Friendly reminder to get those t-shirt orders in! We will be submitting our order tomorrow affernoon (Wednesday, Sept 11th). Any orders placed after that time will be submitted in our next round in a few months. Adult, toddler & yourh sizes are available for purchase! Thank you for supporting our school 👕🫶🏼

Last call for this round of school spirit shirts! We will be placing our order for school shirts this Wednesday! Please get your final orders in before then as we encourage students (& parents) to wear their shirt for upcoming spirit days & the pumpkin patch field trip 👍🏼
Below is the tshirt order form with a QR code to place your order. If you already submitted your order, thank you!
Cash, check & Zelle are all acceptable forms of payment ✅

Our fall FUNdraiser has officially begun! ✅
The “pick a date” September calendar fundraiser info was given at parent orientation this week. If you were not at orientation, it is in your child’s cubby 👍🏼
We encourage all students to participate & help raise necessary funds for our school! Each sponsored day = one entry for a $250 Visa giftcard! 🤗
Detailed instructions are inside the fundraising envelope . Should you have any questions or concerns feel free to reach out to our board members! 🫶🏼 Happy FUNdraising! ❤️

Before or after parent orientation come check out our giving tree in the hallway! There are still a few items left to give to our school 🤗 We appreciate every donation big & small, you are making a difference for our small community! 🫶🏼

Don’t forget this week is parent orientation! We will be reviewing the parent handbook, discussing our events this school year & meeting the parent/teacher board 🍎🤗
3s: Thursday Sept 5th 11-11:30 AM
4s: Friday Sept 6th 1-1:30 PM
Returning families, please join us as we have some new and exciting things happening this school year! If you cannot attend, we will save the information & send it home with your child.
*The orientation will be over before pickup

Happy Labor Day! There is no school today - we wish all of our families a safe & restful long weekend. We will see you all tomorrow & Wednesday! 🤗❤️

Happy Sunday Stepping Stones Families! We had such a special first week of school 🍎 It was so wonderful meeting many new families & reconnecting with the old 😊
Please see the attached September newsletter for an overview of our September curriculum, important upcoming dates & much more.
A friendly reminder - tuition is due on the first of month & late as of the 10th. Cash, check & Zelle are all accepted forms of payment ✅ Thank you!

Friendly reminder 😉 to join our school remind app to stay in the know with all the fun happening with our preschoolers & receive helpful night before/day of reminders ✅
See the image below for easy to follow instructions 👍🏼

First day of school for our THREE year olds is tomorrow! We can’t wait to see their smiling faces at 8:30 AM 🤗
Please join our board members for annual tears & cheers event after drop off. Enjoy coffee, breakfast refreshments & and good company as we cheers to a new school year 🫶🏼

TOMORROW is our first day of school for our 4/5 year olds! 🥰 we can’t wait to see you tomorrow morning 🫶🏼
Come take a fun first day of school picture before school begins 📸
Families are invited to our annual tears & cheers event right after drop off! Come meet other families, enjoy some refreshments & coffee while cheersing to the new school year ⭐️

We will see you tomorrow for our annual meet the teacher event! ✏️
Families are welcome to come anytime 8:30-10:30 AM ✅ we can’t wait to see you all 🫶🏼

Looking for ways to help out our school?
We could always use:
-Clorox wipes *especially now!
-Baby wipes
-Dry snacks (pretzels, graham crackers, goldfish, ritz crackers, granola bars)
-Fresh fruit for snack time
We appreciate your generosity. Our school relies on your donations to help keep our costs & tuition low! 🫶🏼

We can’t wait to see our new & returning families this Friday, August 23rd is our meet the teacher event! 🍎
-Classroom Tours
-Student Scavenger Hunt
-Parent Information Packets
-Spirit Shirt Sales
See you soon! 🌟

We’re one week away from our annual meet the teacher event! 🍎 We can’t wait to see all of our new and returning families on Friday, August 23rd to meet their teacher, explore their classroom & participate in a fun scavenger hunt! See below for more info 🫶🏼

We welcome all new & returning families to join our Stepping Stones Board Member’s annual Tears & Cheers event! 🤗
We will be meeting on the front lawn after drop off on your child’s first day of school for coffee, refreshments & conversation about all the emotions of the first day of school. Can’t wait to see you there! See below for more information 🫶🏼

We can’t wait to see all of our new & returning families next Friday, August 23rd for our annual meet the teacher event! 🌟 Come join us to see your child’s classroom, meet your teacher & even win a scavenger hunt prize! 🤩
School spirit shirts will be sold for $15 while supplies last ✅
Please see the flyers below for more info 👍🏼

There is still time to register your preschooler for our one of a kind part-time enrichment program! 🍎

Call now to schedule a tour, complete registration & secure your spot ✅
You may also come join us for our meet the teacher event & see what our school is all about! 🌟 see below for more info 👍🏼
Want more information about our play-based curriculum & who we are? Check our website:
www.steppingstonespreschoolvisalia.com

Happy Monday Stepping Stones Families! In addition to meet the teacher on August 23rd, we will be selling school spirit shirts🌟 Students are encouraged to wear their school shirt on spirit days, field trips and special days at school ✅
Child shirts are $15 & will be available for sale at our meet the teacher event & the first day of school. Adult shirts will also be available for preorder 👕
Please see the attached flyers for more information. We can’t wait to see your school spirit shine! ✨

Happy August Stepping Stones Families! We welcome all of our new and returning preschoolers on Friday, August 23rd to meet their teacher & preview their classroom for the 2024-25 school year! 🍎 🌟
Please see the attached flyer for more information & it will be sent via email as well. If you have any registration paperwork to turn in please do so ASAP!
Looking forward to a wonderful school year 🫶🏼

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If you haven’t already, please share your experience with Stepping Stones Preschool on Facebook and/or Google reviews. We appreciate you! 🫶🏼💛

Our first day of school is right around the corner! Stay tuned for more details to come via email ✅ Reminders will always be posted on our page.
-First day of school for the 4 year old program is Monday, August 26th
-First day of school for the 3 year old program is Tuesday, August 27th
*Meet the teacher day will be the week before school begins! More info to come 👍🏼
Enjoy your last few weeks of summer! ☀️

Are you interested in a part-time preschool program for your little one? Do you want to help build your child’s social, emotional & academic skills through play-based & hands-on learning? Stepping Stones Preschool is enrolling ages 2 years 9 mos - 5 years old for the FALL 2024-25 school year🍎 come check us out at the corner of Caldwell & Akers ✅

Space is limited - call to take a tour, complete registration & secure your child’s spot. 559-734-7157

Want more information? Check out our website:
www.steppingstonespreschoolvisalia.com

What a great final week of summer program at Stepping Stones Preschool! We enjoyed learning about summer time picnics, studying about summer critters, & eating a special popsicle treat picnic style in the grass! 🐜 ☀️
We will miss all of our summer program friends but look forward to seeing many of them returning for our Fall 2024-2025 school year! Stay tuned for more information to come ✏️🍎

This week was likely one of our most memorable at Stepping Stones summer program ☀️ We learned all about camping - from going on a bear hunt to a morning nature walk, we finished our week off with eating SMORES. Where did we melt our chocolate other than the hot hot sun. What a fun week we had! 🏕️
We can’t wait for the grand finale next week learning about Picnics 🧺
Next Thursday, July 18th is our LAST day of summer program.

Did you know that Stepping Stones Preschool is the ONLY enrichment based preschool program - not daycare - in Visalia?! This one of a kind preschool education program is enrolling ages 2 years 9 mos - 5 years old for the 2024-25 school year🍎

Space is limited - call to take a tour, complete registration & secure your child’s spot. 559-734-7157

Want more information? Check out our website: www.steppingstonespreschoolvisalia.com

Wishing you all a joyful & patriotic fourth of July! May your day be filled with family, fireworks & FUN! 🎆 🌟 🎇 🇺🇸