Hello Friends Early Learning

Happy early Juneteenth! Our children loved having a read aloud from Esi Lewis, Founder of the Margaret Wade-Lewis Center for Black History and Culture in New Paltz!

is tomorrow! Wednesday, May 20th starting at midnight! This is one of the most impactful times to support Hello Friends Early Learning, as donations can be matched and special prizes will be awarded to participating organizations! 💚

Check out our Hudson Valley Gives profile here: https://www.hvgives.org/organizations/hello-friends-early-learning

Help us meet our $1500 goal to finish the new infant care space, Littlest Learners. This new space will open six new care spaces for Hudson Valley infant families. This will go towards the purchase of cribs and cubbies to complete this project and meet our goal open date of December 2026!

A big THANK YOU to a generous donation from Marion Creative Carpentry Company who designed and built this custom mud kitchen to add to our outdoor learning space! 🔎🌳
Our students have already loved exploring this new area, and we are so grateful to be able to have this at our school for years to come!

Happy Mother's Day 💕 Our annual mother's and father's day celebrations have quickly become one of our favorite traditions! We look forward to these days all year. Thank you for having your little ones be a part of our Hello Friends family!

As the week comes to a close, it has been a joy celebrating and recognizing the immeasurable impact of the educators on the Hello Friends teaching team 🩷
Early Childhood Education does not exist without the teachers at the heart of this work!

♻️ 🚛 We had a visit from a recycling truck! Everyone helped to put a recyclable item in the bin and watched the big arm lift it up into the truck!
Thank you !

Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌱 we had so much fun learning about worms, and plants with !

It's The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Week of the Young Child, an annual celebration of early learning, young children, their teachers, families, and communities 💡

"Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul."
- Fredrich Frobel

Not all classrooms have four walls 🌳 The Preschool class has been doing some exploring and learning outside!