Local preschool teachers work to promote early education through hands-on library
Posted at 12:18 PM, Feb 28, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-28 19:45:41-05
GROSSE POINTE, Mich. (WXYZ) â Two preschool teachers in Grosse Pointe are working hard to promote early education for children. A new program is called ECHO is meant to supply preschoolers with books and puzzles needed for learning.
â90% of the brain develops by the age of 5, Betina Davis said.
She and Cate Williams take early education very seriously. They are preschool teachers within the Grosse Pointe Public School System.
The two are behind the Early Childhood Hands-On Library and Center â ECHO for short.
GPPSS students return to full-time, face-to-face learning in March
Staff begins receiving COVID-19 vaccinations
Grosse Pointe Public School System students in kindergarten through grade four will return to 100% face-to-face learning March 1. Students in grades five-12 will return to 100% face-to-face learning March 15.
File photo by Deb Jacques
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GROSSE POINTES After attending school in a hybrid format since October, minus a brief period that began in November, Grosse Pointe Public School System children will return to full-time in-person learning next month.
At the Feb. 8 GPPSS Board of Education meeting held virtually, the school board voted 7-0 to pass a resolution for students to return to 100% face-to-face learning. According to the resolution, students in kindergarten through grade four will return March 1. On the same day, preschool programs will return to typical classroom sizes and operations, depending on enrollment. Students in grades five to 12 wil
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Community remembers councilman, ‘great guy’
In 2017, George McMullen, right, participated in the “An Evening Under the Stars” fundraiser to benefit the Full Circle Foundation. The event was held at the Roostertail in Detroit.
Photo provided by Judy Gafa
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GROSSE POINTE WOODS There’s a feeling of sadness in the community with the passing of Grosse Pointe Woods City Councilman George McMullen Jr.
On Dec. 29, the elected official who made friends everywhere he went lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 63.
A moment of silence was held in his honor at the Jan. 4 Grosse Pointe Woods City Council meeting held via Zoom video conference.
Photo provided by North Student Activities Director Peggy Bonbrisco
North, South provide others with a happier holiday season
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GROSSE POINTE FARMS/WOODS Every Christmas, the Grosse Pointe North and South high school communities make sure others in need have a happier holiday season through the Adopt-A-Family program.
As a tradition, the schools’ student associations collect monetary donations from students and staff within their school buildings in an effort to spread holiday cheer. With the funds, the associations “adopt” families at North and South that otherwise would go without at Christmastime.
Once all the donations are received, students purchase all kinds of gift items clothes, art supplies, DVD players, grocery store gifts and more and then deliver them to the families prior to Christmas morning, either at their homes or at the schools they attend.