Preschool Program Awarded Prestigious Five-Star Rating!

Preschool Program Awarded Prestigious Five-Star Rating!

Imagine having over thirty preschoolers under your care each and every day. Being responsible for not only each of their mental, emotional, moral/social, physical and spiritual needs; but also the far more rudimentary ones.Sixty small hands that must be washed and dried repeatedly throughout the day, thirty sleep mats that must be clean, covered and a specific width apart, and thirty lunch bags whose individual contents must each conform to a strict set of guidelines: there must be milk (regardless of whether the child drinks it), there must be a napkin on which to set all food, there must be one portion of fruit, vegetable, carbohydrate and protein and though dried fruit is acceptable only fresh vegetable is allowed. Each and every lunch bag must be labelled with the current date, any water bottles left behind at the end of the day must be thrown away, a spare set of clothes must be kept at all times, etc, etc, etc.

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Spirituality in the Classroom

RMCS Community Celebrates Autumn Equinox, Photo by The Brandinghouse
Spirituality in the Classroom

In this day and age, it is sometimes easy to find ourselves tip-toeing around the subject of spirituality, particularly when it relates to the classroom. After all, we reside in a country founded by many who fled religious persecution, who passionately believed in spiritual freedom and whose ideals, since, have been maintained by a strict adherence to separation of church and state. So, taking into context our country’s history and a world that is still, today – feverishly, and relentlessly – waging wars over religious differences, it is not surprising that spirituality can sometimes be a difficult subject to broach.

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