The Martha F. Wilson Early Childhood Development Center

Gearing up for yet another successful school year, we welcomed new incoming families to our Open House Event today!

Reminder to all families:
School Begins September 6, 2023
Hours: 8:40am-2:40pm
Uniform: Navy Blue Top /Khaki Bottoms

Call our main office to ensure your child’s registration is complete and all documents have been turned in.

Physicals and Immunizations Records needed to begin school on Sept 6th!

Attn Families! Let us know if you plan to return in September.

Attn Current CCSD Families!

We are excited and ready to welcome our students back for the upcoming school year! Please let us know if your child plans to attend school or return to school in the District by the week of 8/21.

Re-enroll Today: https://camdencityschools.org/enroll-today/

Attention ECDC families, Join us on August 17th for our enrollment event!!!

¡Atención familias de ECDC, únanse a nosotros el 17 de agosto para nuestro evento de inscripción!

Attention ECDC families, please stop in and visit our Parent Center during the first week of school for a chance to meet your school’s FOC, have a hot cup of coffee, tour our center, learn about available resources and future school events! We are so excited to see you on the 1st day of school, Wednesday 9/6!!

Enjoy the rest of summer!

Atención familias de ECDC, visítense y visiten nuestro Centro para padres durante la primera semana de clases para tener la oportunidad de conocer el FOC de su escuela, tomar una taza de café caliente, recorrer nuestro centro, conocer los recursos disponibles y los futuros eventos escolares. ¡Estamos muy emocionados de verlos el primer día de clases, el miércoles 6 de septiembre!

¡Disfruta del resto del verano!

ECDC cordially invites all new and returning families to our 2023-24 Open House Event. This will be an IN-PERSON Event and all are welcome to join us at our facilitu - 1602 Pine Street Camden NJ 08103 at 11AM.
-Meet your Administrators and Faculty
-Tour The School
-Ensure registration is complete
-Bring your questions to help prepare for the start of a new year!
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ECDC cordialmente les invita al evento de Casa Abierta 2023-24. Este evento se llevara acabo en persona en las facilidades de ECDC 1602 Pine Street Camden, NJ a las 11AM
-Conozca la facultad y adminitradores
-Vea la escuela
-Asegure que su registracion esta completa
-Traiga sus preguntas para el comeinzo de un nuevo año escolar!

Please join us on August 17th for our district wide enrollment fair! Join us for food, music, fun for the kids, laundry and uniform vouchers will be available!

Good Morning ECDC Families!!
We hope everyone is enjoying their summer break. We welcome everyone to today's food distribution event happening now until 11:00am next door to ECDC school. Please bring and ID.

Buenos dias familias de ECDC!!
Esperamos que esten disfrutando el verano. Hoy invitamos a todos al evento de distribuicion de comidas, comenzando ahora hasta las 11:00am al lado de la escuela ECDC. Favor de traer su ID.

Don't miss the Summer Program Kick Off event next week!

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Hats off to our 1st Round of Pre-K4 Ceremonies! We are so proud of the hard work and progress of each of our students. Job Well Done! 🎉🎓

ECDC is ready to celebrate our graduates 🎉🎓

Good afternoon ECDC Families:
Today we wish to congratulate all the classrooms celebrating their Pre-K 4 Students who are moving forward to kindergarten this upcoming school year.... Ceremonies will begin this afternoon, please see post for classrooms celebrating today!

Join us tomorrow from 10am-12pm. Bring your ID and proof of address

To close out all the wonderful teacher appreciation festivities this week, the Admin Team held a backyard BBQ in the courtyard today to celebrate our teachers. Everyone got to enjoy a sunny outdoor lunch break, all while playing some cool outdoor games.

Thank you to all of our amazing educators and staff contribute to our student’s success each and every day!

Today we got to treat our teachers and staff with a Movie Day featuring Abbott Elementary and delicious popcorn and snacks. Here’s to a well deserved break during their preps for a job well done!

Special appreciation goes out to our amazing team of School Nurses: Lynn Turt and Cynthia Zimmerman, as we recognize their hard work, dedication and years of service to ECDC.

No better way to show appreciation for our ECDC staff than with a very sweet and special treat made possible by Mr. Softee and our partners at Freedom Financial.

Announcement from our School Social Workers:

Please join us for our next workshop titled "In You Feelings" where we meet to discuss how to discover and manage your child's feelings at home. See the flyer for location details

Anuncio de nuestras trabajadoras sociales:

Acompañenos para nuestra proxima charla titulada: :En sus Sentimientos" donde nos reunimos para hablar sobre como descubrir y manejar los sentimientos de los hijos en casa. Vea el anuncio para lugar y mas information.

On behalf of the ECDC Administration, we would like to sat THANK YOU to our Teachers and Paraprofessionals who always go above and beyond the call of duty to ensure our students have a safe, fun and enjoyable learning experience each and every day! Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!!!

With Love and Appreciation,
- Principal Loray Vaughan
-Lead Educator Raquel Gracia-Wade

Good afternoon ECDC Families,

Sharing this important community resource available to all qualifying families... For more information contact the number listed on the flyer.

A great principal builds character, inspires dreams, encourages creativity, builds confidence, instills a love for learning, touches hearts and changes lives forever!!!

ECDC honors our school leaders Principal Ms. Vaughan and Lead Educator Mrs. Gracia-Wade for their love, dedication, professionalism and service to our school, staff and families.

Happy Principal Appreciation Day 💛💙✏️📚🍎

What a blast at today’s career day event held at ECDC!! Our students represented their desired careers and went on a hands- on learning adventure throughout our building, discovering all the different types of career choices they have to look forward to for their bright shiny futures! Special thanks to ECDC Staff and Administration, our community partners, Subaru of America, Camden City Fire Department and our student volunteers for a truly successful career day event.

On National Bring Your Child To Work Day, ECDC proudly received some of our staff member’s children, who in turn serviced the students of ECDC during our Career Day festivities today. We would like to thank each and every one of them for their hard work, dedication and special visit to ECDC!
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Tomorrow, April 27th, your child will be participating in Career Day activities. You may send your child to school on that day dressed as what they want to be when they grow up (teacher, doctor, firefighter, an engineer, chef, etc.).

We would like students to be exposed to careers that will allow them to have hands-on experiences and learn about different opportunities as they learn and grow .

Thank you,
The Power Partners Team

Today ECDC celebrated our very own Bilingual Clerk- Mr. Figueroa as our students and staff wished him a Happy Administrative Professionals Day. We thanked him for all that he does to keep ECDC’s main office operating smoothly, efficiently and as always, with a smile.

Thank you Mr Figueroa for your hard work and dedication to our school! It never goes unnoticed. ✏️📚🍎

Reminder to all families, today and tomorrow all students will have an early dismissal at 12:40pm. Please plan accordingly as there will be no PM Catapult program on these days.

ATTENTION ECDC FAMILIES,
Please be reminded that Monday April 24th and Tuesday April 25th, all students will have an early dismissal at 12:40pm, due to Parent Teacher Conferences and Staff PD. Conferences will be held from 2-6pm at ECDC. Staff PD will on April 25th.... For more information, please contact your child's teacher.

On Thursday, April 27th, your child will be participating in Career Day activities. You may send your child to school on that day dressed as what they want to be when they grow up (teacher, doctor, firefighter, an engineer, chef, etc.).

We would like students to be exposed to careers that will allow them to have hands-on experiences and learn about different opportunities as they learn and grow .

Thank you,
The Power Partners Team

NOW ENROLLING FOR 2023-24!!!! Visit onecamden.org to submit your application for ECDC today!!! For more information, contact Mr. Figueroa at 856-966-4171.

INSCRIBIENDO AHORA PARA EL 2023-24!!! Visite onecamden.org para someter su aplicacion hoy!! Para mas informacion, llame a Mr. Figueroa al 856-966-4171.

SPECIAL THANKS AND APPRECIATION are in order for all of our ECDC staff members and families who participated in our very successful spring krispy kreme fundraiser.

We are proud to announce and congratulate our top selling class Room 133-Ms Bank's Room. They have won a pizza party for their class on the day of their choice.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE................. Congratulations to our top selling student: Amariah Martinez in Ms. Bank's room 133. She is the proud winner of a new and innovative bike!!!

ATTENTION ECDC FAMILES!

Tomorrow, Friday March 17, 2023, The Catapult program will run only in the morning. There will be no program in the afternoon. Please plan accordingly, as all students will dismiss at regular time (2:40pm)

In celebration of their most recent clothes study, Ms. Fiori's class in Rm 137 hosted their annual "FASHION SHOW" today, displaying some of the most amazing outfits and ensembles! Check out the style in 137!!

ECDC has done it again!!! Day two of our very successful and adventure packed book fair. Thanks to the amazing team that made this vision come to life for the benefit and enjoyment of our students.

Thank you Power Partners Committee, Book Smiles, Wilson Family, Admin, Teachers, Paras, Support Staff and everyone who made this very special book give away event a success.