A Much More Productive Week.

We had a chance to walk the whole site on Wednesday this week. It is certainly very flat! The retaining walls are all in and the building pads are down. The whole site sits expectantly waiting for the lumber to arrive. We chose the siding and a few other materials today so the order is in and should be arriving any moment.

The county has still not issued our permit but there is only one department left to approve the plans. We will meet with them on Monday to resolve any outstanding issues and HOPEFULLY pick up our permit.

We are not at a standstill as of this day. The utilities have begun to be installed and will take a couple of weeks to finish. The materials should all arrive during that time and then we should see the buildings go up very quickly. We are really getting excited now.

On the enrollment front, this was another very, very busy week of family tours and enrollment activity. Several rooms are now completely full for the new campus. Others are very nearly there. Please write to mary@thelittleschool.net if you have any questions about enrollment.

Glimpse:
We have begun collecting the materials and furniture that will used at the Waterstone Campus. We received a wonderful gift this week in a gymnasium full of preschool materials donated from one of our dearest community partners. With the addition of these new materials there are now several large storage lockers full of STUFF and another quickly filling. It is beginning to look like more than enough to fill our 14,440 square feet.

Many have asked us who decorated the Davis Road Campus. We always laugh because we did, but it was more playing than decorating that occurred. We have in common an ability to look at a thing and see it for something other than its intended purpose. When we began to put Davis together we put all of our materials in the Preschool classroom and then one at a time decided what to do with them. In the end, there are ducks with lily pads and puddles screwed to the ramp, crystal chandeliers in the foyer, clouds and bugs as lamps, puzzle pieces make up our staff bulletin board and our most noteworthy paint effect (in the office and Toddler Room with the clouds and the writing) is the result of running out of paint and needing to fill in the holes in our first coat.

We have collected really wonderful materials again and expect that the Waterstone Campus will have the same whimsical feel as the Davis Campus. Please feel invited to share some of your decorating suggestions with us. We are always open to suggestions- especially if they involve a completely new use for an everyday item.