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Brooklyn City Schools Integrated Preschool

Brooklyn, Ohio

Brooklyn School District

Cuyahoga Universal PreK-Starting Point

Brittany Hubbell, Intervention Specialist

brittany.hubbell@bcshurricanes.org

Reach results for student success

Preschool Spring Concert

Brooklyn Preschool is working to engage all families in their young children’s learning activities at school and at home, and to ensure that all families are welcome as audience members (“audience volunteers”) for their children’s presentations and celebrations. At the Spring Concert, the children sang three songs: Five Green and Speckled Frogs, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, and Baby Bumblebee. The nursery rhymes were fun and required musically-timed gestures. They helped students strengthen early math readiness skills, ideas for good health, and large motor skills and coordination.

After the concert, students and their families traveled to three activity stations to gain skills in photography, cooking, and crafts. They took family photos, made dessert by following a recipe for chocolate pudding, and painted wind chimes with flowers and butterflies to take home.

Parents and educators on the ATP worked together to plan the Spring Concert. Teachers taught students the songs and guided the group activities, Students, too, had responsibilities as the “stars” of the concert performance and as active partners with parents at the activity stations. A small grant from the school’s managing organization, Universal Pre-Kindergarten, helped pay for the supplies at the activity stations.

The ATP and school staff advertised the Spring Concert in several ways in advance and with reminders on the day before and day of the concert. A welcomed challenge was that large numbers of families attended. Nearly 50 students were supported by over 170 parents and other family members, long with school staff.

Brooklyn Preschool serves families with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and  with various family structures, including grandparents raising grandchildren. Teachers and families celebrated student learning. They also had time to meet and talk with each other at one of the first school activities since COVID-19 closures and restrictions.

Read more about Preschool Spring Concert in Promising Partnership Practices 2022.