We have finally been able to pour the foundations for our buildings! What a glorious thing to be able to report to you. Our contractor is waiting on a mechanical plumbing change on Building B and then they will pour that last slab of concrete AND THEN framing will begin. Our contractor said we should see framers by next week!!!!
We will FINALLY be 3-dimensional!
We are being told that once the framers and roofers are finished things will move very quickly. Our interior is very sparse and simple. We are hoping/praying/wishing/counting on that simplicity equalling easy and fast to finish.
We will keep you posted.
The half-day program classrooms will be painted this weekend. We can't thank the Hillsborough United Church of Christ enough for their willingness to once again share their space with our school family. We have been told that we have Mr. Fred Jordan to thank specifically for these classrooms as he believed very strongly that this is a good use of space for the church. While Fred is our champion on this issue, the entire church has been nothing but supportive, loving, and embracing of our community and our mission. We are so grateful to the church as a whole.
Glimpse: Carrying the topic of foundations one LONG step further, we are beginning to consider the smaller details that make our program what it is. One of our great fears is that our little homey school will not translate to the larger campus. We are fully committed to doing everything possible to ensure that we don't ever feel like a big institutional school. We are choosing paint colors that are similar to the paint now, buying lots of furniture at garage and yard sales so that we carry the character and charm with us, and even thinking about the music that we will play in the classrooms for nap time being sure that the music selection is broad enough that each teacher can choose music that reflects his or her group of children and not the corporate philosophy of our school. We are again open to suggestions from all of you.
What are the foundational pieces that you want to see us build upon? What pieces of the current school do you most want to see us recreate at the new campus?
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Plants!
This was a great week on site. There were several issues still awaiting resolution including general landscaping, retention pond plantings, and lighting on the site. After much discussion with folks at the town and some of the neighbors those issues have all been solved and we have begun to purchase the plants for the site. We are buying them from a great nursery called Taylor's Nursery in Raleigh. The folks there are going out into the field this week to tag our plants where they grow. They will be deliver mid-November and then we will be doing the installation as a community. If you have any expertise in landscaping or planting and would like to help out with the planning we would love to hear from you soon.
Glimpse: We are beginning to consider the paint effects that we will use throughout the school. Because our children see the world from angles that we as adults don't usually, it is really important that our decorating encompasses the whole space and not just the standard four
walls. For instance, what will the children see when they are being changed? How will we use the ceiling spaces to inspire the children, and or to educate them? Our younger children may spend an hour a day being changed. How can we use the building in that case to enrich that time? Because our building has to have dropped in ceiling tiles in order to meet code we have thousands of squares waiting for us to be creative enough to turn them into murals. What will it all look like?
We are beginning to dream about that now. In the dining room, for instance, we think that the ceiling should look like the sky- maybe as seen through a cracked ceiling??? Or with acoustical tile clouds hanging down at different lengths to diffuse the dropped in lights?
And how about the floors? A standard vinyl tile floor can easily be painted to become the most beautiful and fanciful carpet in a matter of hours. Or a garden? Or a bridge? There is no limit to the wonder that we can create with the building if we see it as a learning tool- and we do!
If you are an artist and you would like to be a part of the planning or the execution of the painting, or if you, like us, are not artists per se, but great artistic support, and you would like to be involved on the painting days we would love to speak to you soon.
Glimpse: We are beginning to consider the paint effects that we will use throughout the school. Because our children see the world from angles that we as adults don't usually, it is really important that our decorating encompasses the whole space and not just the standard four
walls. For instance, what will the children see when they are being changed? How will we use the ceiling spaces to inspire the children, and or to educate them? Our younger children may spend an hour a day being changed. How can we use the building in that case to enrich that time? Because our building has to have dropped in ceiling tiles in order to meet code we have thousands of squares waiting for us to be creative enough to turn them into murals. What will it all look like?
We are beginning to dream about that now. In the dining room, for instance, we think that the ceiling should look like the sky- maybe as seen through a cracked ceiling??? Or with acoustical tile clouds hanging down at different lengths to diffuse the dropped in lights?
And how about the floors? A standard vinyl tile floor can easily be painted to become the most beautiful and fanciful carpet in a matter of hours. Or a garden? Or a bridge? There is no limit to the wonder that we can create with the building if we see it as a learning tool- and we do!
If you are an artist and you would like to be a part of the planning or the execution of the painting, or if you, like us, are not artists per se, but great artistic support, and you would like to be involved on the painting days we would love to speak to you soon.
