Where Children Develop a Love of Learning
Do the Star Wars films bring up any memories for you and your childhood? We would love to hear any and all of your stories if you have any! Introducing kids to great characters allows them to expand their imagination that much further and grow into themselves!
For those of you who don’t know we recently received GOLD for The Gazette’s Best of The Springs magazine!
Each year this magazine collects nominations and votes for companies and businesses who raise the level of expectation that much higher. Unknowingly Young Scholars Academy was nominated by a member of our community for “Best Day Care Center” and we won!
While we consider this such a great honor and love being recognized for all the hard work we do with our families and the Early Childhood Education field, we want to thank YOU!
Our families are the reason we were voted best; the partnerships created between our teachers and parents are something extraordinary and are a huge reason why our kids excel so much in their education!
Once more we would just like to say how much we appreciate the love and support you have given to our Young Scholars Academy family!
Our Safety & Health Coordinator Ms. Marsha was searching for ways to relate safety to our kids! With firemen being a frequent community hero in Dramatic Play she knew this would be a hit!
We practice fire drills every month and this was a great way to help our kids make the connection as to why Fire Safety is so important!
Below is one of the holiday classics, and one of our favorites to share!
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor—
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon
115 West Ninety Fifth StreetVirginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.
We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
The children had a blast wearing footy pajamas, cuddly warm jammies and their favorite sleepwear during Pajama Day at Young Scholars Academy! Just look at all these sweet happy faces!
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