Cottage News October 2026

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Cottage News **** October 2026

Food for thought:

“Every time we rescue, hover, or otherwise save our children from a challenge, we send a very clear message: that we believe they are incompetent, incapable and unworthy of our trust. We teach them to be dependent on is and thereby deny them the very education in competence that they need” excerpt from The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey

Themes for this month: families, pets, homes, Halloween, Dia de los Muertos

Reading Readiness themes for this month:

Preschool: same/ different and sorting

Pre-K: patterns & tracing

Gymnastics:

every other FRIDAY

Sports

Mondays: Kindergarten, Green, Yellow, Orange

Thursdays: Blue, Purple, Red

Open house: October 1st (5:45pm-7pm-drop in any time and let your child show you around)

October 5-9 School photos (9-11 am)

Thank you for being part of our community. We couldn’t do it without the participation of each of you!

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