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Cooperative Nursery Schools
It’s the start to another fantastic school year at BNS, where the parents, children and staff all work and play together. Parents have had a chance to meet the teachers, work in the classroom, dine at Ledo’s together and enjoy a movie under the stars with their families. The cooperative spirit is already apparent!
The summer play dates kept everyone connected... more
As noted in a previous blog post, Bannockburn Nursery School is planning to replace its playground’s beautiful wooden train that, after twenty-five years of heavy use, is bound for the great roundhouse in the sky. In the weeks since BNS began to ask friends and neighbors to help Save the Train, over $5,000 has been raised, which will cover a significant portion of the... more
Tonight, after we put the children down, with 2 feet of snow on the ground and not a plow in sight, I sent my husband on a trek through the neighborhood to meet a stranger on Massachusetts Ave to give them a can of baby formula. A person, I don’t know, posted on a neighborhood listserv I don’t live in, about her baby with GI problems that was running out of formula... more
The beautiful wooden train in the Bannockburn Nursery School’s playground has been transporting children to wherever their imaginations take them for more than twenty-five years. That’s a lot of trips to the country, the beach, the moon!
Current BNS parent Sara Williams has the unique privilege of watching her daughter enjoy the same train today that she rode... more
It’s the start to another fantastic school year at BNS, where the parents, children and staff all work and play together. The cooperative spirit is apparent – even before school begins.
The summer play dates kept everyone connected and provided a wonderful opportunity for new families to get to know each other. The teachers... more
The kids may be back to school but it’s not all pumpkin spice and tweed just yet. Calendar aside, September still feels a lot like summer and there are plenty of things to do that take advantage of the warm days and sunshine.
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This has been the month for our community to socialize, share, and shop at Bannockburn Nursery School, starting off March with the Rummage Sale and ending with the Spring Fever auction.
A few days before the BNS Bazaar/Rummage Sale, families from the community share and donate their gently and/or not so gently used items. This is always an exciting time to not... more
If you had visited BNS last week, you would have found an assembly line of tiny hands making sandwiches for Bethesda Cares. We do this at BNS every year and it’s great hands-on way to get the kids involved in their community and thinking about others. Here is how one Acorn described what it was like to make sandwiches for the... more