Kids First Learning Center Teddy Bear Class Graduation 2024
The KIDS FIRST 25th Annual Graduation Ceremony was an absolutely magical day!
Congratulations to our brilliant Graduate, Isla, who received her diploma today and will enter Kindergarten! WOO-HOO! And to, our fabulous Intermediate Level students, Audrey Jo, Avery, Jack, and Theodore, entering the Pre-Kindergarten program, our genius Beginner Level student, Andrea, entering the Intermediate Level program, and our Assistants, Nixon, entering First Grade, and Sage, entering Second Grade. I know you will all have a bright future and succeed in life!
And a huge thank you to Andrea’s mom, Brittney Madrigal, for ordering and delivering IN-N-OUT for our special luncheon. This wouldn’t have happened without you. I sooo appreciate it!
And a special thank you to Theodore’s mom, Maddie Scalvini, for the outrageously cool treat bags for every student, and extra ring pops! Super thoughtful and way cool! And a special thank you to Jack & Nixon’s mom, Jill Stockness, for the lovely, unique, and authentic Hawaiian Graduation Lei! So thoughtful…it’s gorgeous!
I feel so grateful to have had such compassionate, intelligent, and conscientious parents with such creative, talented, funny, and bright children. I love teaching in the lovely, friendly, and welcoming community of Chico.
I am a certified center-based director, attaining over thirty years of experience in the field of Early Childhood Education; achieving an Associates of Arts degree, and completing 40 + early childhood educational units (16 E.C.E units as well as the essential 24 state required early childhood education courses, in addition to completing 150 + college credits in psychology, theater, sign-language and English). I also possess a current C.P.R and First Aid Certificate. I am also an aficionado of comedian memoirs, avid collector of snowmen paraphernalia, rainstorm enthusiast, red wine connoisseur, candle hoarder, water baby, national public radio diehard, ardent music lover, romantic comedy movie junkie, audacious self-published author, as well as an extraordinarily passionate preschool teacher and director, who is college educated with a background in theater, psychology and child development. I’ve received various certificates of notable accomplishments for my commitment to educating children and have self-published various children’s books; Pumpkinpants, Little Turkeys, Tis the Season to be Molly, A Makeup Surprise for My Valentine Eyes, Lizzie the Lazy Leprechaun and Eddie the Edible Easter Bunny, as well as several adult books; Get it?, The Big Kid Method, Life After Lipstick, Diary of a Preschool Teacher, plentyofpickles.com and Aftertaste.
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