P4K Post
March 2017
Serving children ages 6 weeks - 12 years old in the following programs:
Day Care
School Age Care
Nursery School
Pre-Kindergarten
Summer Camp
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Jump Start - Extended Nursery School
We have been taking registrations for Jump Start and still have some space if you are interested in your child attending this program. Starting May 22, after our regular Nursery School & Pre-K classes end, Sue Smout will offer a 4 week extended preschool class which will include kindergarten readiness skills, games, art projects, camp activities, and lots of recreation time.  

For more information contact Sue at:  ssmout3@aol.com
School Age Registrations 
Beginning Wednesday, March 1st, brochures and registration forms for school age Summer Camp and Fall Before/After School Care will be in the mailboxes of the children who are eligible for those programs as well as online at  Pearce4Kids.org .

Register Early and Save!  Turn in your Summer Camp registration form and your 2017/18 Before/After School registration form together and pay only one registration fee of $40 for both! 

Summer Camp:
Summer Camp  starts on Wednesday, July 5 and ends on Friday, August 25 for children who are entering Kindergarten in the fall through children who who turned 13 during the 2016-17 school year. We provide full-time (5 days per week) care and part-time (1 to 4 days per week) care. We do limit the number of children per day so register early to ensure your child's spot in the program!
  
Before/After School:
This year, for those of you who are re-registering for the Before and/or After School Program 2017-18, we have an abbreviated registration option for you. You will get a form with all of your current information listed. You simply update anything that has changed, or is new, and return it to the P4K office with your registration fee and your child will be registered for the fall. We hope this will ease the registration process for so many of you who re-register and have to write the same information down year after year. Let us know how this works for you and if there are ways we can tweak it to work better in future!
Family Fun Night
Pearce's next Family Fun Night will take place on Friday, March 10,  at 7pm in the gym. Families will enjoy basketball shooting competitions and team basketball games for parents and kids.   Parents must stay with their children for the entire event. 
Spotlight on Summer Camp Leadership Staff      
K/1st Grade Camp Staff:
Sue Smout will again be our K/1st Grades Summer Camp Program Director. Sue's group will have fun weeks with themes such as "Happy Birthday USA", Christmas in July", "Under the Sea", and "Science for  Everyone". Sue has served as the K/1st grade Summer Camp Program Director since the summer of 2007, when we decided to split camp into two programs and give the younger campers their own space.

2nd Grade & Up Camp Staff:
Leandra Cooke will be our Summer Camp Program Director for the children who are in  2nd grade and up. During the school year, Leandra splits her time between her position as the 3 year old day care class lead teacher and the after school program director. She served as Mattie's assistant director last year in Summer Camp and is excited to serve as the director this year.

Brenna Earle will serve as Leandra's Assistant Director this summer. Brenna graduated from Hobart & William Smith College in 2015 with a major in Spanish Education. She has worked in Summer Camp since 2013, as well as helped us during school breaks as well, so she knows many of the children. During this school year she has worked in the Churchville-Chili School District, serving as a long-term sub in a middle school Spanish class. 
Linked with Love ~ Duhujwe n'urukundo            
Thank you, or as they say in Nizge, Murakoze (MooRahKohZay) for your very generous response to our request for crayons, pencils and sharpeners for the team going to our partner preschool in Nzige, Rwanda from February 16 - 25. The team was overwhelmed by your generosity. The Nzige Preschool teachers and children will be excited to have a fresh stock of new school supplies! There is nothing like opening a brand new box of sharpened crayons!! Visit and "like" our Nzige partnership Facebook page by clicking on the following link:  Linked with Love - Pearce & Nzige FMC. You can see pictures and watch videos of what is happening during the current teacher training trip!

For those of you new to P4K and unaware of our partnership with the Nzige Free Methodist Preschool, see the articles in the Quick Links above for more information.

This is the team taking all of your donated school supplies to the children in Nzige. They are, from left to right: Jackie Kuhlkin, Laura Ciminelli, Carol Stevenson & Cheryl Heimberger. Those of you who have been at P4K for a long time might recognize Laura, who worked at P4K for a number of years in various capacities before graduating from Roberts Wesleyan College.
Clean Out Your Basements and Garages!               
The weekend of April 28 & 29 is the Annual Pearce Mission Garage Sale. All proceeds of this sale will go to two mission projects. One project will be a local mission project. The second project will be for our partner preschool in Rwanda. The proceeds of the garage sale going to the Nzige Free Methodist Church/Preschool will help them finish building a primary school on the same site as the preschool. Often children in Rwanda do not go, or get to finish, school because they live too far away and there is no transportation for them to get to there. The Nzige Free Methodist Church wants to expand their preschool so that children who age out of the preschool can continue their education. The parents of the Nzige Preschool children and church members have volunteered their time and resources to lay the foundation and put up the walls for the primary school which included hauling stones by hand, or by bike, to the building site.   The parents have done all they can do with the resources they have at this point. The proceeds from the Mission Garage Sale will help accomplish their goal toward offering school to the primary grades in 2018.

Start your spring cleaning early and take advantage of the opportunity to bring unwanted/unused items you would like to get out your house to Pearce so that we have a great sale and can help the Nzige Church educate their community's children. Donations will be accepted starting Monday, April 24. Watch for more news about the sale in the coming months.

Below are pictures showing the progress so far on the building of the primary school:

Moving stones that will be broken up and used for the foundation to the site where the primary school will be located. The ladies pushing the bike are two of the preschool teachers. (April 2016)

 
Foundation is laid & ready for the walls to go up (April/May 2016)
Building the foundation - the preschool classes are in the background












The walls are up but the work has stopped until funds for roofing, cement floors, and windows can be purchased. (December 2016)

Check Out the Web!     
Be sure to take advantage of the calendar on our P4K Website Calendar. To find it, go to our website, click on the Calendar  tab on the top toolbar and you will be into the P4K calendar. On the calendar you will find things like:
  • Day Care lunch menus (click on the tab for the full menu)
  • Holiday Dates
  • School Age full and half day schedules
  • Nursery School & Pre-K days off, field trips and other events
Each program is color coded so you can easily search for information that is pertinent to your family. When in the calendar, if you want more information about a particular event posted, click on the event box and we will have more detailed information listed in description.