Welcome, Teacher Shaina!

As some of you know, Teacher Maria Nava is leaving Creative Minds at the end of this month and going back to school. I wanted to introduce Teacher Shaina, who will be the lead teacher in Purple Room starting in March. Shania has her bachelors degree in creative arts teacher preparation from San Jose State University and has worked with toddlers and early preschoolers. She will start from next week and overlap with Maria for two weeks to start transitioning. Thanks for your support during transition period. Please give Teacher Shaina a warm welcome to our Creative Minds family!
We wish Maria all the best and she will be missed by all of us!
Some snippets from the last couple weeks:)








Sarah talked about Chinese New Year, the year of snake. She taught the kids a song, read a book and made lucky money envelopes :) We love our parent volunteers! Thank you!








Also lots of hard work went into Valentine's Day cards and frames. I hope you heard lot of conversations and it gave us an opportunity for learning to read and write our friends' names.








I learned something new this week. I offered to read a book called Z is for Zamboni
(since teacher Maria was losing her voice). Please ask your child about it (clue for you: it was a sport-related theme).
Sports are still going strong. They are making their own jerseys now.....more on that in my next blog.
- Teacher Richa