Jeffery Ruckman started offering on-site piano lessons for our students this year! Here, last Friday’s birthday student enjoys her lesson with Jeffrey.
Hanging out in our huge multi-purpose room, Kim got carried away stacking boxes. Improbably, she managed to throw a box onto the huge stack, pushing it to nearly 16 feet. Tossing another, to push it to 18, her creation finally toppled! Kids loved it!
Our youngest helpers for our huge moving project (August 19-20, 2017). Here, children of staff help us sort hundreds of bins of toys in our cavernous storage room. Astra Day School is almost in KCMO and will have openings for children aged 2.5 – 4 on arrival. Check out our […]
The Astra Day School move is almost finally complete! Click to see how some of our staff (and some of our children’s parents in the library) spent time this Sunday sorting through all of the hundreds of bins of toys and teaching materials. The new building means that we will […]
Here are some before pictures of our courtyard from Sunday, August 20th. We had volunteers landscaping to tear out the old courtyard plants, and to replace the old, stone tables and benches with some that fit better for our use. A strategic Facebook Marketplace ad brought people to haul out […]
We had a great turnout for the Astra Day School relocation on both Saturday and Sunday. Some teachers spent more than 20 hours just this weekend. Here, Kim is collapsed inside one of the semis. Check out her 25,000 steps on her Fitbit from Saturday alone. That’s roughly 10 miles! […]