Progress

Progress: forward or onward movement toward a destination

Dear Families,

This week you received your child's progress report. Each report is like a map of a child's life in the classroom. Each child has so much to offer their classroom community. The progress reports offer an individual perspective and, read as a whole, a sense of the collective classroom community. It is a powerful thing to watch a group of children all working towards similar destinations, but with individual strengths, challenges, passions and personalities.  

And now we’re hunkering down for weeks of winter weather and routine. I can't help notice how happy the children are to be back in school, with friends and with structure and routine that is now familiar and comforting. The adults reluctantly are settling back into routine but with a bit less enthusiasm as we know how much of winter lies ahead and the potential for the disruption of frigid air, snow, ice, slush and mush. 

But walking through classrooms it is so good to see how ready children are to dive deeply back into their play, how eager they are for new challenges and how open they are to all the learning that is available. The forward movement of developmental progress happens both slowly and at lightning speed. 

As we emerge from two years of pandemic-restrictions, life at FJECC is evolving and growing. As always, our mission is to provide exceptional education for young children that is a seamless blend of the secular and Judaic. At the intersection of the two is the belief that each child in our school is uniquely capable and has the right to play, learn and grow. In order to ensure more families can access all that we offer, we have expanded Toddler offerings for 2023-2024, including two, three or five day enrollment, as well as full day options for our youngest friends. Preschoolers also have the continued option to stay until 5:30 each day. 

In short, while we grownups have been writing reports, working on enrollment and budgeting, eyes simultaneously on both now and next year, the children of FJECC are firmly, wonderfully, happily, fully standing in the present with joy and relish. 

Shalom, 

Amy