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Hello and welcome to the Spring Garden Children’s Center of Easton Pennsylvania
The Spring Garden Children’s Center was the initiative of Reverend Robert Williamson of the First Presbyterian Church of Easton. Dr. Williamson wanted to provide a weekday nursery school to mind and nurture the city’s children to enable them to become good neighbors within the church’s community. Thus after many days of planning, the school was born in September 1955. The center has grown much over the past 50 years and with its dedicated staff and teachers, the growth potential is unlimited!!!
Spring Garden’s Mission is to become the daycare of excellence in the Easton Area with sufficient funding to support programs, families and staff in a fiscally responsible manner. At Spring Garden, we strive to provide a warm, loving environment for all children to grow and learn. We are proud of our children and our school and with your continued dedication and generosity, we plan for greater and more exciting opportunities to come. With your commitment, we will be in a strong position for sustained success!!!
The Spring Garden Children’s Center now has a presence on Facebook, so become a friend for support and stay in touch. You can become a friend by clicking here.
The Spring Garden Children’s Center is a Non Profit institution. We serve the community by offering affordable child care and educational services to the residents of Easton, PA and the surrounding area. Our operating funding comes from several sources including grants, fundraising and tuition. As we all know these recessionary times have been plagued with various funding cutbacks, especially in education and childcare. That is why we ask you to help us continue our mission to provide children and families with affordable care, education and support services that strengthens and improves their quality of life.
Please take the time and click on the donation button below to assist us in continuing our mission and you will feel confident your contribution will help the Easton community to stay strong through education. We sincerely thank your for your monetary generosity.
ATTENTION Spring Garden Children’s Center Supporters
WANT TO HELP OUR Center EARN CASH? YOU CAN EACH TIME
YOU SHOP AT OUR LOCAL STORE WITH
Designate our Center today using ID Code 04399 and each time you shop at GIANT using your BONUSCARD, you will earn points for your school! Those points become CASH for your school to use for any of our educational needs.
Log onto giantfoodstores.com/aplus to register your bonus card. Don’t forget to choose Spring Garden Children’s Center for your designated center.
Visit GiantFoodStores.com/aplus or call 1-888-GIVING-2 (1-888-448-4642)
This simple effort will make a huge difference for our school!
Bonus Incentive Programs
NEW for this year
You can earn MORE POINTS for your school! When you shop October 9, 2011 - March 31, 2012, you will earn one point for each dollar spent.
Triple Points
Every time you shop and purchase a Healthy Idea labeled item you will earn TRIPLE POINTS. Look for the Heathy Idea logo in the store and on the self.
Double Points
Everytime you shop and purchase any item listed below you will earn DOUBLE POINTS. Look for the "Double Points" shelf tag in the store.
Participating Vendors
YOU’RE INVITED
Please Join Us…
STRAUSSER WILL HOST
SPRING GARDEN CHILDREN’S CENTER, INC.
FAMILY & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS PARTY
DATE: DECEMBER 15, 2011
TIME: 3:30pm-5:30pm
LOCATION: SCHOOL AGE
CLASSROOMS
ENTERTAINMENT WITH BALLOONS THE CLOWN, SNACKS & MORE
SANTA WILL ARRIVE WITH A PRESENT FOR EACH CHILD.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Come out and celebrate!!!
“12th ANNUAL LIGHTS ON AFTER SCHOOL”
October 20 from 7 PM to 8:30 PM
The Spring Garden Children’s Center, Inc.’s will hold an OPEN HOUSE for parents, supporters, community members and policy makers as part of the 12th Annual Lights On After school! event on Thursday, October 20 from 7 PM to 8:30 PM. Spring Garden Children’s Center, Inc. is located at 401 W. Berwick Street, Suite 103, Easton, PA
Please click here for more information!
SAVE THE DATE!!!!
2nd Annual City of Easton's
Bravest and Finest
Wrestling Tournament
 Grades K-6/Round-Robin/Honor Weigh-In/
No Walk-Ons/Limited to first 250 wrestlers
Saturday, Dec. 10th 2011 Easton, PA
For more information and required forms
PLEASE CLICK HERE!!
- Spring Garden Children’s Center, Inc.
Presents
Emerging Young Artist
Children’s Art Exhibit and Reception
August 24th
6:00-8:00 p.m.
At
Sigal Museum
of the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society
342 Northampton Street
Easton, Pa 18042
For information and directions call: Pat Hunter (610) 252-0559 ext.16
To View the flyer CLICK HERE
The SPRING Garden CHILDREN’S CENTER, Inc.
Summer camp 2011 flyer is now available to view.
PLEASE CLICK HERE
Spring Garden Children's Center Selected to Participate in Arts Program
Sunday, May 15, 2011
By: Jan Schwartz
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Look what's happening in Northampton County!
All throughout Lead Teacher Sandra Riley's school age classroom at the Spring Garden Children's Center hang brightly colored poster sized sheets of artwork. In various stages of completion, carefully drawn with colored pencil, are cars, trucks, trains, and animals.
The students in Ms. Riley's classroom who attend the National Association for the Education of Young Children (N.A.E.Y.C.) accredited and Keystone STAR 4 child care center for before and after school care, have been selected to participate in the 2010-2011 Art in All of Us Art Pen Pal Program. This year's theme is "Manifest Your Care for Mother Earth." The students have been paired with students attending the Aron Densusianu School in Romania. Riley's school students, ages eight to eleven years, are working on drawings to be shipped to Romania at the end of the month about how transportation can impact animals and the environment.
The twenty-seven students participating at the Romanian school will mail their artwork to their Easton, PA counterparts. Art in All of Us is an international, not-for-profit organization based in Brussels, Belgium, and New York City. The organization states its objective to "promote artistic and creative communication among children from all parts of the globe." Art in All of Us Art Pen Pal Program pairs schools from around the world to exchange informative artwork on their own country and culture.
After giving a tour of her classroom to a visitor, Ms. Riley talked about subjects, like geography, science, art, technology, and environmental issues that she, and her students, has learned about from participating in the project. On a bulletin board was a picture of the Romanian students dressed in Halloween costumes.
"My students were surprised that they celebrated Halloween in Romania, and that Romanian kids looked like kids that they see in their own classrooms," said Ms. Riley, who also teaches her students the importance of media literacy.
She states her students no longer view the Disney movie Cars, or the Michelin tire commercial, in quite the same way as they did before. They now look at the related media with a critical eye, trying to see if it incorporates the theme of the environment and sustainable development, which this project has taught them so much about.
The project will culminate in an art show at the center located at 401 West Berwick Street. Light refreshments will be served as the artwork from Romania will cover the walls, while the digitized pictures drawn by Spring Garden Children's Center students will be projected onto a big screen
The Lehigh Valley Early Care & Education Planning Committee is excited to announce that the fifth annual Lehigh Valley Early Care & Education Professional Development Day is now on Facebook! To become a fan please type Lehigh Valley Early Care & Education in the Facebook search bar. After you navigate to the page, please hit the like button. Please share this information with your colleagues so they too can start to receive updates about all the great things that are being planned for this all-day conference.
Congratulations to the School Age 2 Classroom!!!
They have been selected to be part of the 2010-2011 Edition of the Art Pen Pal Program. The students will be paired with students in the Aron Densusianu School, Hateg, Romania!
The objective of the AiA Art Pen Pal Program is to promote artistic and creative communication among children from all parts of the globe. Schools from the around the world are paired and exchange informative artwork on their own country and culture.
Please click here for more information!!!
Help Spring Garden raise additional money just by “GoodSearching”!!!
What if Spring Garden Children's Center earned a donation every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can!
GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and help support the Children’s Center.
All you have to do is download the GoodSearch – Spring Garden Children’s Center toolbar. The Spring Garden Children’s Center will earn money every time you search online - even if you forget to go to GoodSearch first!
Add the Spring Garden Children’s Center toolbar at http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/spring-garden-childrens-center
Also GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 30 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause.
(Hint the Spring Garden Children’s Center)!!!
Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, eBay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you'll become a cherished supporter of the Children’s Center.
For more information go to www.goodsearch.com in the box under who do you search for , type in: Spring Garden Children’s Center Inc -( no punctuation)
Please check out the Friends of SGCC page as we at the center pay tribute to those people, organizations and businesses that support us.
- Please visit our Calendar page for all important events!!!
New Preschool Program at Spring Garden!!!
Kids of Character Education
The four-year old class will be participating in an exciting new Character Education program called, Tanners Manners.
Tanners Manners curriculum will encompass activities that directly and indirectly address the root causes of bullying. Children will be engaged in anti-bullying activities that address:
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Developing tolerance of others and their differences
Developing self-worth, self-esteem and self-confidence
Developing character and integrity
Workshops will be conducted by Lori Eslinger, consultant with the Center for Humanistic Change. The workshop will be held every Thursday, beginning
March 3rd from 3:45pm-4:15pm.
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