June 20, 2020 Greetings SVDH Family: We are planning to reopen the Day Home between July 1 and July 10. Because our first priority is the safety and health of your children and our staff, we will reopen 2-3 classes at a time over the first two weeks of July. In response to the COVID-19…
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Category Archives: Day Home News
2018 Week of the Young Child
Each year in the third week of April, we celebrate the Week of the Young Child. The Week of the Young Child is an annual celebration hosted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) celebrating early learning, young children, their teachers, and families. The purpose of the Week of the Young Child…
Gift Drive 2017 Record Year!
For the first time EVER, every family at SVDH was supported by our Holiday Gift Drive. Orinda Community Church, Transfiguration Church, Bishop O’Dowd High School, and an overwhelming number of generous families, individuals and local companies donated $49,000 worth of gifts for our 186 families. This would not have been possible without our amazing volunteers from SquashDrive,…
Happy Holidays ~ the children make peppermint bark!
Wells Fargo sent 35 of their best and brightest over to the Day Home. While half helped us prepare the Adopt a Family drive, the other half made peppermint bark with our kindergarten class. The children and their enthusiastic helpers had a blast preparing, (and modestly sampling) the tasty snack with white and dark chocolate,…
Santa Came to Town!
Our children were surprised and delighted by a visit from Santa Claus himself. He visited each classroom with his elves, asking the children what they wanted for Christmas. The children responded with colorful renditions of Jingle Bells and Feliz Naividad, and one child gave Santa a card he had made for him. As Santa passed…