The Corky Violet’s First Graduating Class Is Ready for Kindergarten
The Corky Violet is celebrating a milestone four years in the making. This month, the very first group of children to grow up with us, from their earliest infant days all the way to Pre-K, are heading off to Kindergarten. These children were among our founding families. They joined The Corky Violet when our flagship […]
Helping Hands and New Friendships
Our Little Stinkers spent the week focused on Arms, Hands, and Fingers, practicing fine motor skills through stacking, squeezing, and simple hand games that build strength and coordination for everything from turning pages to holding a spoon. Friendly Foxes and Wolf Pups moved into Social Me, working on sharing, taking turns, and building friendships within […]
Little Hands and Growing Friendships
Little Lillies and Lillies practiced Arms, Hands, and Fingers this week, building the fine motor strength behind every stacked block and turned page. Buttercups and Azaleas moved into Social Me, working on sharing and turn taking with the kind of patience only a toddler classroom can teach a grown up too. These are the moments […]
Small Hands, Strong FriendshipsDiscovering Our Senses This Week
This week, our youngest classroom at The Corky Violet worked on Arms, Hands, and Fingers, building fine motor strength through stacking, squeezing, and simple hand games, the same kind of hands on play this original Corky campus has offered since day one. Our older children moved into Social Me, practicing sharing and turn taking with […]
Discovering Our Senses This Week
This week, our Little Stinkers moved into the My Senses portion of All About Me, exploring how they see, hear, smell, taste, and touch the world around them through hands on play and sensory exploration. Friendly Foxes and Wolf Pups both spent the week on Feeling Me, talking through emotions, naming feelings, and practicing ways […]
Senses, Feelings, and a Whole Lot of Growing
This week told a story of growth across every room at the Magnolia Main House. Little Lillies and Lillies moved into the sensory portion of All About Me, touching, tasting, and exploring textures and sounds with wide eyed curiosity. In Buttercups and Azaleas, teachers guided children through Feeling Me, naming emotions and practicing simple words […]
Senses and Feelings, Inside and Out
The Corky Violet’s 2-acre campus gave our youngest learners plenty of room to explore My Senses this week, touching bark, smelling flowers, and listening for birds as part of FrogStreet’s All About Me unit. Inside, our older classrooms moved into Feeling Me, learning to name emotions and put words to big feelings with the same […]
Why Every Snack at The Corky Lily Is Organic
Food choices matter to the families we serve in Madison, and we built our snack program around that fact. Every snack at The Corky Lily is organic, dye free and served with reverse osmosis water. Organic means the food your child eats here was grown without the synthetic pesticides and fertilizers used on many conventional […]
The Heart Behind Our Name and Logo
We chose every piece of our logo on purpose, and we want families to know the story behind it. The name Callahan’s at Corky South honors “Mac Callahan”, a child at one of our sister campuses. Mac was born with Down syndrome. He was our first child with Down syndrome at any Corky location, and […]
Our First Week of All About Me
This week at The Corky Magnolia Den, our classrooms kicked off the FrogStreet All About Me unit with a look at our own faces and bodies. In Little Stinkers, our youngest friends practiced pointing to and naming their eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, building the first steps of self awareness through songs, mirrors, and gentle […]