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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Getting to Know Ourselves, Rain or Shine
At The Corky Violet, this week’s version of FrogStreet’s All About Me unit happened everywhere from circle time to our 2-acre back yard. Whether children were pointing to their own eyes and noses indoors or feeling the sun on their faces outside, teachers wove self awareness into everything. Our youngest infants and toddlers practiced naming […]
Four Years of The Corky Violet
Four years ago this August, The Corky Violet opened its doors as the very first Corky Child Care Garden. Today our flagship campus in Meridianville is celebrating that anniversary. The story it has built still centers on the same idea it started with. This is a family. Our team celebrated the milestone on August 10 […]
Why a New Infant Room Means More Room to Grow at The Corky Violet
The Corky Violet is opening a second infant room. This is about far more than adding space. It is about giving even more babies a soft place to land during their very first year. Our infant teachers build each day around the Frog Street curriculum. This fills the room with real talk, songs, and movement […]