Spectrum Progressive School of Rockford

Does your child ever get to interact with students in other grades, outside of maybe lunch or recess?

At Spectrum, one of the ways we make this possible is through our "Reading Buddies" program. Once every week, our older students visit our younger students and read to them. Not once a year, once a week!

Our students in Preschool and Early Elementary have their perception and experience of reading enriched by watching how the "big kids" do it AND have fun with it! Hearing older students say certain words, noticing their pace of reading, etc, can have an immediate impact on their own reading and comprehension in a positive way.

Our students in Intermediate Elementary and Upper School get the chance to lead and model for younger students academically, and even social-emotionally. This can give confident students a platform to shine, while also helping shy students come out of their shell a bit. It's something all students, no matter the level, look forward to every week!

Reading Buddies: because our amazing teachers....aren't the ONLY amazing teachers. 📚😎👏

What a wonderful event Breakfast with Santa & Mrs. Claus was this past weekend! Thank you Napleton Subaru - Rockford for letting our community be apart of this event to support Remedies Renewing Lives this holiday season. We look forward to next year! 🚗🎅🤶🥞🎁🤝❤️

Back in September, our before-and-after school program, Compass, ran a Cereal Drive for the Rock River Valley Pantry. We recently heard back from the RRVP, saying we had donated 81 pounds of food for families in need! Our Spectrum families are amazing!

Our students and staff thought of a problem, created a path to help address the problem, and now we get to reflect on, tangibly, how much our community was able to donate and how that translates to the real world.

If you notice below our Facebook logo, it states:

Thinking, Creating, Reflecting: Impacting the Future.

It's not just a tagline 🤷‍♂️. Thank you to EVERYONE who donated, and thank you to the Rock River Valley Pantry for allowing us this opportunity! Let's run it back next year 💯💯🥣🥣🫶🫶

If your child doesn't want to wait until December to see Santa, now they don't have to! Napleton Subaru alongside Spectrum School are inviting everyone to their "Share the Love Breakfast with Santa & Mrs. Claus" event on Saturday, November 30th, from 9:00am - 11:00am. If you attended last year's event, you'll remember it was really well done with great food, fun activities, and this year should be no exception. Also, like last year's event, Spectrum's Early Elementary & Intermediate Elementary students will be performing a few musical hits!

If you plan to attend, please bring an unwrapped toy to be donated to Remedies, a local charity providing to families in need. Click the flier for all the details, we hope you can join us!

Join RaiseRight and support our school!

Purchase gift cards for everyday shopping and a portion of each purchase goes to Spectrum.

Every purchase helps fund classroom supplies, extracurricular activities, and school improvements.

Click the link below to sign up, shop, and support Spectrum all at the same time!

https://www.raiseright.com/enroll?enrollCode=C5FD63786672&af_xp=custom&pid=dashboard&c=dashboard&deep_link_value=EnrollmentCode%3Fcode%3DC5FD63786672

Last Thursday night, at the What Rocks Community Choice Awards Gala, we came up just short for Best Preschool & Best Private School in the Rockford area. However, we as a staff and community are extremely proud for finishing in the Top 3 in both of those categories, out of dozens and dozens of schools in the area up for selection. Today and every day, thank you for choosing Spectrum School for your child's educational journey. ❤️👏🙌📚

🚨🚨***DATE CHANGE***🚨🚨

Due to the forecasted rain this coming Sunday, we will be rescheduling our Lantern Walk for NEXT Sunday, November 10th!

Open to the public as well as all of our Spectrum families, friends, and alumni! RSVP on our event page link below, and share it with anyone you think might be interested! We look forward to seeing you all, alongside our lantern lights NEXT Sunday!

https://www.facebook.com/share/graSXAsYF77AdzmE/

As a Top 3 Finalist for the What Rocks Community Choice Awards in TWO categories (Best Preschool AND Best School - Private), we're officially one month away from finding out where in the Top 3 we'll land! (November 7th) 🤞🤞🤞🏆🏆🏆

At Spectrum, we believe that student interests and curiosities should drive their passion to learn. We believe that small class sizes help your student get the attention and personal feedback they need. We believe that a vast arts integration (art/music/drama/dance) in addition to academics helps develop a more well-rounded individual going forward. We believe that a school, where your student is present 7 hours a day, needs to be a safe space (no fighting whatsoever), so the open communication, empathy, and genuine care demonstrated by staff and students on a daily basis ensures just that. We believe having nature (our playground & beautiful prairie surroundings) alongside their educational journey is a gift that not every student has access to.

Those are just a few reasons to consider Spectrum School as your young student's learning community. Schedule a tour today!

Our weaving fence allows children of all ages to experience the weaving technique in many ways. You'll see the "in-and-out" style, creating a pattern (mathematical concept thinking) or the freestyle (creative thinking). Both ways work on motor skills, problem solving, and creativity.

The weaving fence creation was started at the Spectrum art activities area during the UU Free Pantry mural event a few weekends back. Preschool, Early Elementary, and some adults participated in its inception! 🧣🧣🧣👏👏👏

A big thank you to all of our families that had the chance to experience and enjoy Donuts with Grownups 2024! And a HUGE thank you to our Spectrum PTO for putting on this great event for us all to enjoy! A delicious donut and great company...you can't start a day better than that 🍩👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🤌

🫵🫵 If you're a supporter of Spectrum School, or non-profits and education in general, then consider choosing Beef-A-Roo on Lexus Drive this Thursday (9/19) for your dinner! 🍔🍟🧋

⏱⏱ From 4:00pm - 8:00pm, just show the flier below or mention Spectrum School while dining in OR ordering out, and 20% of the proceeds get donated back to Spectrum! 🤑🤑

🙏🙏 From everyone at Spectrum, thank you as always for your support! 🙌🙌

The below message is what we received from the Rockford Register Star on Thursday, announcing that, after all the votes have been tallied, that Spectrum School has finished in the TOP THREE of voting for BOTH "Best Pre-School" AND "Best - School - Private!" The winner will be announced at a gala on November 7th. WE STILL HAVE A SHOT AT THE TOP SPOT!!! 🏆🏆🙏🙏

A HUGE shoutout to our community members who were voting day after day, to give us a shot against the large field of choices in both categories. Thank you for not only choosing Spectrum School, but for being willing to share with the world how proud you are to be apart of this learning community! 😍😍👏👏🗣🗣

Feel free to stop by this fun, free, community event happening this Saturday in the lower lot of Spectrum! Help the UU Neighborhood's Free Pantry get a makeover with a mural painting, led by local artist Jenny Mathews! Bring a picnic lunch, enjoy the RPL mobile library, kids activities provided by Spectrum, and more!

Great to see Jack doing unbelievable things on the biggest stage in the world! 🙌🙌🏊‍♂️🏊‍♂️🥇🥇

Former Spectrum school student competing in Paris Paralympics ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Jack O’Neil, a former student at Rockford’s Spectrum Progressive School, will be swimming in the Paris Paralympics on Saturday. A former student at Spectrum Prog…

🗣🗣 Thank you to all the parents and staff that set these students up for success throughout their first week of school! 👏👏🙌🙌