The Compass School, Ashburn Virginia

Yesterday, we celebrated the birthdays of Mickey and Minnie Mouse! It was so fun to dress up as some of our friends' favorite characters.

Celebrating diversity and promoting kindness, we are proud to share these pictures of our odd socks today! #oddsocksday2021 #onekindword

This month's school-wide provocation in our Atelier is the book Scribble Stones by Diane Alber! Scribble Stones is about a stone that is used as a paperweight, but it knows he/she has a bigger purpose. With the help of some scribble friends and creativity, the stone becomes a piece of art that brings happiness to others around the world.

We can't wait to see how our friends help bring such creativity and joy to their art!

This month's school-wide provocation in our Atelier is the book Scribble Stones by Diane Alber! Scribble Stones is about a stone that is used as a paperweight, but it knows he/she has a bigger purpose. With the help of some scribble friends and creativity, the stone becomes a piece of art that brings happiness to others around the world.

We can't wait to see how our friends help bring such creativity and joy to their art!

We had so much fun at our virtual costume parade on Friday - check out some of our favorites! Hoping everyone had a safe and happy Halloween this weekend.

Another year, another pumpkin decorating contest! All of our designs were inspired and implemented by our students.

Which one is your favorite?

Thanks to the Two Smooth Dudes for parking their truck at Compass! Our teachers loved the gourmet tots, wraps, and salads for lunch today.

Thanks to the Two Smooth Dudes for parking their truck at Compass! Our teachers loved the gourmet tots, wraps, and salads for lunch today.

Fall is upon is in our Twos classrooms! We have enjoyed so many art, building, stacking, and counting activities using pumpkins, pinecones, wood slices, and fallen leaves this week.

Our Sound Stage (JK/K) friends enjoyed their holiday at the JK Community Farm today picking various vegetables; feeding, petting, and holding chickens; and identifying herbs before enjoying a picnic together!

The food grown at the JK Community Farm is picked by food pantry partners for immediate distribution. Harvests are picked up daily to ensure the food is reaching families as fresh as possible. We are so proud to be a part of this great cause, and thank you to the Macpherson family for inviting us!

Yesterday we celebrated the end of Intergenerational Month with our senior friends and neighbors at Waltonwood Ashburn. During an exchange of gifts, one of the thank you cards from our Sound Stage (JK/K) classroom inspired a resident to reply with drawing tips! I sense a budding pen pal relationship in our futures 🥰

Thank you, Judy, for believing in our students!

Yesterday we celebrated the end of Intergenerational Month with our senior friends and neighbors at Waltonwood Ashburn. During an exchange of gifts, one of the thank you cards from our Sound Stage (JK/K) classroom inspired a resident to reply with drawing tips! I sense a budding pen pal relationship in our futures 🥰

Thank you, Judy, for believing in our students!

Compass is an all-weather school! This means we go outside during rain, snow, or shine, as long as it's safe to do so. When we have really wet weather like this week, please remember to send your children with appropriate attire! This may include a rain jacket, rain boots, and extra clothes to change if they get muddy.

Compass is an all-weather school! This means we go outside during rain, snow, or shine, as long as it's safe to do so. When we have really wet weather like this week, please remember to send your children with appropriate attire! This may include a rain jacket, rain boots, and extra clothes to change if they get muddy.

Friendly reminder: Happy Labor Day!

Friendly reminder: Happy Labor Day!

Happy first day of school, Compass Families! We look forward to a wonderful 2021-2022 school year 🤓

[08/21/21]   During our Conscious Discipline staff in-service training day yesterday, we also spoke about how our self-image affects our impact on our relationships and environment. As we learned, "The most important meeting in your life – the one with yourself. Making a self-portrait, to contemplate it, to describe it, to read and hear how beautiful you are. It opens a new quality of how you see, understand, integrate, and treat yourself. And, in consequence how you relate to others."

On a hot day, what's better than a citrus sensory bin? How refreshing! Our infants sure thought it was tasty.

Showing interest in shapes this month, our Nature Center friends arranged and glued together triangular and rectangular "useable" canvases of loose parts. Once dry, they enjoyed building on a base of Legos and math blocks today!

Thank you, Compass families, for making our plaza beautiful with all of your works of art! For this project, we tasked our students to draw their family members however they perceived them and came up with some amazing and creative results.

Coming soon to theaters near you, our Clubhouse Campers are off to a creative start designing movie posters to adorn their entryway. Check out these thrilling titles!

In a culminating moment for our Sound Stage friends, who have been exploring a renewed interest in the popular trading card game Pokemon, our kindergarteners celebrated with a themed party, complete with costumes, party games, and lots of fun!

Look who got an upgrade! Griffin the Leopard Gecko is living large.

Exploring summer activities, our Art Studio pre-kindergarteners had an amazing day camping out, building blanket forts, and enjoying time with friends on their "staycation" day in the classroom!

After harvesting lots of vegetables from our garden, our two year olds had fun tasting them today! While some loved them, others were not impressed, but it was so rewarding to eat what we grew with our own two hands.

Compass Families, this is a friendly reminder that we are closed on Monday, July 5, in observation of Independence Day! Enjoy your long holiday weekend. 🇺🇸

Compass Families, this is a friendly reminder that we are closed on Monday, July 5, in observation of Independence Day! Enjoy your long holiday weekend. 🇺🇸

A much-needed water day with our two year olds! When you put the kids in charge of the hose, you know you're in for a good time.

In case anyone was wondering, our vegetable garden is thriving! Toddlers for scale 😉 The Pathfinder classroom loves helping their teachers care for all the plants!

A hot Monday makes a perfect day to introduce water play days at Compass this summer! Our infants loved splashing in the baby pools and water tables, and getting sprinkled on with the cool water from the hose was so refreshing.

Bringing Hawaiian colors and flavor to Compass on Friday, we celebrated our father figures! Happy Father's Day, Compass Families.

We kicked off our 2021 summer camp this week with a boardwalk theme. After creating the beach in a jar, making slime, and building a slide out of big blocks, we capped off the week at the Community Pool!

The Compass School, Ashburn Virginia updated their business hours.

The Compass School, Ashburn Virginia updated their business hours.

Our Scavenger Hunt yesterday was a huge success! Students were tasked to find colors, names, or shapes and rewarded with a sweet treat on a hot day.

Congrats to our 2020-2021 Pre-K, JK, and K grads! We are so proud of you all and are so excited for your next adventure!!

Our new kitchen-themed music walls finally went up on the playground this week... and the pans, sheets, and spoons are a huge "hit"!! 😎🎶

Thank you, Compass families, for donating the kitchen items as well as Miss Jocelyn and her family for the palettes we mounted them on!

Compass Families, this is just a friendly reminder that we are closed tomorrow, May 31, 2021, on observance of Memorial Day. Thank you!

Compass Families, this is just a friendly reminder that we are closed tomorrow, May 31, 2021, on observance of Memorial Day. Thank you!

With our school growing, we are so excited to re-open our Trailblazers classroom on June 1!

With a surprising amount of friendly wildlife around Compass, we often see critters out when it rains! This week, a curious little box turtle stopped by just in time for our Pathfinders (toddlers) to say hello!

To beat the heat Friday, we held a school-wide playground picnic, where we enjoyed popsicles with friends! We missed having our families join us this year, but we're looking forward to many more upcoming events!