New School Year

We look forward to welcoming our community to the Opening Potluck Picnic on Sunday, September 13, from 4 to 6 pm. Please mark it on your calendar and be sure to join us. There will be more information soon.

Also, plans are underway for our annual transition to school from camp, and once again, we would appreciate any help setting up classrooms and other spaces. We need help painting shelves, organizing books, organizing the common library, and other projects. We could use the help on Friday, September 11 - 10 to 12. If you have a spare hour or more, please come by and help us get ready. This is also a great time to meet old friends and welcome new families.

Please join us in welcoming back Amy Taylor who will be working with R.J. teaching with us while Lucy is on maternity leave with her new baby Ariella! Also, please welcome back Travis Foreman who is back from Miami and will be teaching with Julie.

 As you may know as our population changes so do our groupings. Please see your email for the list of groupings. This year we have one Early Childhood classroom taught by Tohanash and Javis. We have two parallel, younger-end Middle Groups. One will be taught by Marybeth and Lora and the other by Sakiko with Dulce. The two parallel, older-end Middle Groups will be taught by Julie and Travis and Amy and R.J.. Liz will teach our oldest group – the Senior Learners. We pay special attention when making groups and try to make sure all students have social and intellectual peers. Also, children have the opportunity to be with other friends during lunch, recess and math class daily and gymnastics and gathering twice a week. 

We are happy to continue our work with Hudson Music both during the school day and afterschool. Also enclosed is information about the lunch program and an updated calendar. Very soon, you will hear from the parent committee chair, Kim Feierstein, about buddies for new families and other details about the school's opening. The afterschool program will be starting the week of September 21. The offerings will be coming soon.

Look for letters from your child(ren)’s teachers and information about getting ready for the first day of school - September 16.

If you have any questions, you can reach us by email at Aachuthan@hayground.org.

Enjoy these last few weeks of summer.