Give the Gift of Cake this Holiday Season

If you haven't had a chance to check out Bien Fait's new website, it's not too late to get your holidays orders in! Bien Fait Specialty Cakes donates all net profits to Greensboro Wonder & Wisdom, so now you can have your cake and give it too! These delicious home-baked cakes are the perfect way to celebrate the season of giving. www.bienfaitspecialtycakes.com

GW&W now Licensed by the State of Vermont!

Greensboro Wonder & Wisdom is now a licensed childcare provider with the State of Vermont. This means that many of our families will qualify for subsidy support from the State. More good news is that starting in January of 2010 the eligibility guidelines for who qualifies for support will be expanded so that most of the families in our community will benefit from this change. For information on how to apply for subsidies, please contact Drex or Diana at: 533-9216 between 12:00 and 5:00 pm (weekdays).

Our next goal is to achieve after-school accreditation so that we can further increase the amount of money in the subsidies that our families receive.

Things are looking good!!!

Creating Candy Island: The first week of W&W Summer Journeys

“You’re awesome!” says Lucy

“No you’re awesome” I reply

“Well you’re awesome-er”

“Okay. How about we’re both equally awesome”

“Okay. Cool.” Lucy laughs as she bounces away

 

Not at every job do you get into a discussion over awesomeness, only to decide that the equally distribution of awesomeness is best.  It is the collective awesomeness at Wonder & Wisdom that has brought me back to the Summer Journey’s program for the past three summers.

I think an introduction is needed, as I will be blogging about the great adventures of the Wiz Kids for the summer-- my name is Erin, a recent college graduate and long time playmate of the Wiz Kids.  I couldn’t imagine spending my last summer, before departing for the adult world, doing anything but playing with theWiz Kids! So, here I am. 

I must apologize for the delay of my first blog post, but my excuse is a good one: float building. Every Fourth of July Wonder & Wisdom Summer Journeys constructs a magnificent float for Greensboro’s Funky Fourth parade. The float is completely kid created; this year’s float was Candy Island adorned with lollypop trees and a monstrous cake mountain. Every child created a costume of their favorite candy, and we “big kids” helped them turn their idea into a reality. Every confection was represented: sour patch kids and candy flowers to gummy bears and chocolate bars. The float was garnished with the inverted M&M’s symbol representing W&W (creative huh!) and the tag line “remember how sweet it was to be a kid”.    Our super sweet float was awarded first place in the parade! A very nice award for our week of hard work.

There are new pictures on the website of our float and its building process and hopefully there will be new pictures added often, so be sure to check frequently.