The Smart Start’s Spring Fling Open House Fun Activities for All

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Natasha Clark / Executive Director The Smart Start

3845 Whitney Ave.                                                                         

Hamden, CT 06518                                                                        

203-660-7158Natasha@TheSmartStart.org
http://www.thesmartstart.org/         

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The Smart Start’s Spring Fling Open House Fun Activities for All

APRIL 20, 2011 – HAMDEN, CT – The Smart Start Preschool & Learning Center of Hamden, CT hosted its annual Spring Fling Open House this past Saturday.  The purpose of this open house was two- fold: 
1) to hold an Easter/spring party for its current students and their families, and 2) to introduce potential new comers to the preschool. The morning kicked off at 10am with an introduction message from Natasha Clark, Owner & Executive Director about the day’s events and thanking all of those in attendance.

The morning kicked off with a welcome address from Natasha Clark and activities for the kids and food and beverages for all.   Mid morning an Easter egg hunt was held and a special visit by Peter Rabbit and raffles for the children rounded out the day.

 “Thanks for joining us at our Easter Spring Fling; it means a lot to all of us here at The Smart Start that you’ve shared your Saturday morning with us.  I hope you and your kids enjoy the activities we have planned to celebrate spring. If you have any questions about The Smart Start Preschool, age acceptance, academics, other learning programs please ask either me or my fellow teachers, we’ll be here all day to answer any of your questions.  Thanks and enjoy yourselves.” said Clark.

While the children kept busy with arts and crafts, Clark entertained new potential parents by giving tours and answering questions about the preschool. 

“Enrollment is filling up, if parents are truly serious about enrolling their children this September its best to sign up now, we’re almost at full capacity and we’ve only been in business for 7 months,” states Clark.  The Smart Start Preschool has been growing since its doors opened in September.  “The open houses and marketing has truly increased my exposure and interest/enrollment in my preschool.” - Clark

The Easter egg hunt started off with a blaze all the children ran around the play yard in search for those special eggs as they filled up their baskets with colored eggs stuffed with prizes.  A few minutes later there was a shadow in the back left corner of the play yard, a teacher exclaimed “I think I see some big rabbit ears, who could it be?”  Peter Rabbit paid a special visit to The Smart Start Preschool giving the children and their parents a little pre-Easter excitement.

As the day came to an end, Natasha and her teachers raffled off Easter baskets for the children.    “This truly was an eventful day we had a great turn out. Spring was in the air and I’m grateful for all the support from everyone who attended our Spring Fling.”- Clark.

About
The Smart Start Preschool & Learning Center is a nurturing center which helps children grow.  Their mission is to provide a safe, nurturing and caring environment for children age’s three to five in a preschool setting.  They want students to grow not only physically, but also mentally, emotionally and socially.  Their program will enrich your child’s life as well as yours.  The Smart Start teachers are committed to you, your child and education – ultimately making it a wonderful place for your child to start learning and growing.

To learn more about The Smart Start Preschool & Learning Center, visit them online at: www.thesmartstart.org  / www.facebook.com/thesmartstart

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THE SMART START PRESCHOOL LICENSED TO ACCEPT SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN

APRIL 6, 2011 – HAMDEN, CT – The Smart Start Preschool & Learning Center of Hamden, CT is officially licensed by the state of CT to accept school aged children.

“I’ve been approached by a few parents about accepting school-aged children for before and after school programs.  I wasn’t planning to offer a program for this age group until about two or three years after being in business; I’ve been open for 7 months but wasn’t able to turn my back on these parents.  Sometimes you can’t time things in life you just have to harness what’s presented to you if it’s a good thing, which this was.  We’ve called this new program the "Over 5 Club” states Natasha Clark, Owner & Executive Director of The Smart Start Preschool.  

Regular schools start between 8am-9am, The Smart Starts hours are 7am-6pm which enables parents or care givers to drop their kids off before or after school.  The Smart Start preschool may be a bus stop on the yellow bus routes, the school is looking into this for parents to ease the coordination of transporting their kids to and from The Smart Start to school.

“Eventually we’d like to generate enough funds to have our own bus, we’re not there yet but it’s a future goal.  With our own transportation we’ll have the flexibility to pick up children pretty much anywhere within an agreed upon radius.” States Clark.

Natasha brings to the table her education and degrees, passion for teaching, innate behavior of being a teacher and engaging children the right way. 

The Smart Start has a designated area in the school for the Over 5 Club. Once the enrollment increases Natasha will be hiring another teacher specifically for the Over 5 Club/School Age children program.

“I think it’s important to have a smaller student to teacher ratio, the CT legal limit is 10 students to one teacher; I like my class ratio to be 5 or 6 students to one teacher.  Smaller groups help children become more engaged they have more chances to answer questions and it’s also less chaotic for our teachers and easier to manage when there are multiple hands.” Says Clark. 

 “My name is Stacey Beecher and I’ve enrolled my 5 yr old son who needed after care.  I spoke with Natasha and she developed a program just for him based on his report card (from kindergarten) her complete evolvement put my mind at ease.  The Over 5 Club has put my mind at ease, knowing that my son is in a good place after school.  Besides the traditional academics after school programs may offer, The Smart Start has helped my son with his self-esteem struggles.  They’re pretty much diminishing and I owe it all to the attention and care Natasha and her teachers have given my son.  This program has helped my son and also my husband and I with our work schedules. “States Stacey Beecher.

Coupled with the Over 5 Club, the school is now offering tutoring to school age children. This is a separate program from the Over 5 Club, however if any of the school age children need help with their school subject matter (math, English, writing, history, etc.) the teachers at The Smart Start are well prepared to help.  Natasha has tutoring background worked at Sylvan Learning Center and is now tutoring a little boy for reading and math.  She’s tutored children from ages 5-10.

About The Smart Start
The Smart Start Preschool & Learning Center is a nurturing school which helps children grow.  Their mission is to provide a safe, nurturing and caring environment for children age’s three to five in a preschool setting along with before and after care programs for school aged children.  Their mission is to help students to grow not only mentally but emotionally and socially.  Their program will enrich your child’s life as well as yours.  The Smart Start teachers are committed to you, your child and education – ultimately making it a wonderful place for your child to grow.

To learn more about The Smart Start Preschool & Learning Center visit them online. Open houses will be held on a regular basis, check out the website and facebook page for upcoming events.   

 www.thesmartstart.org www.facebook.com/thesmartstart thesmartstartpreschoollearningcenter.blogspot.com

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