PVN families and staff gathered on the evening of December 6 to enjoy songs and a story.  Centerville High School students, under the direction of Theater Arts teacher, Joe Beumer, performed The Gingerbread Baby. A packed house enjoyed the antics of Mattie, as he ran after the Gingerbread Baby. Read More

On December 3, PVN’s PTO hosted their annual Winter Carnival, chaired by Co-President Amy Hoff.  The children enjoyed crafts, face painting, cookie decorating, the cake walk and jumping and playing on huge inflatables in the gym. Read More

Watts Middle School students are entertaining the students and staff at Primary Village North during a holiday program at the school on Marshall Road. Watts’s students in the Girls’ Chorus and Jazz Ensemble kept the kindergarten and first graders engaged with a variety of holiday music. Pictured is the Jazz Ensemble with the chorus to their right, and of course the K-1 students seated on the floor in their gymnasium. Read More

The Blue Neighborhood comes together as a community every Wednesday for sing-a-long.  The students love seeing their friends and siblings from other classes and singing fun songs together.  The teachers love all the learning that goes on while the students are singing.  Music is a very important part of the preschool and Young Fives’ day because it provides many opportunities for learning.  Participating in sing-a-long songs provides the students with opportunities to practice many phonemic awareness skills, including rhyming and letter sounds.  Gathering together as a large group to sing and dance helps the students learn about their bodies in space and how to move within their own spaces.  Being together as a large group also helps us practice our listening and attention skills.  Using large hand motions that cross the midline of the body stimulates many parts of the brain and helps prepare us for learning.  Many songs mimic the rhythm of reading and singing predictable and repetitive songs paired with the written word helps students connect what they are hearing and saying/singing to what they are reading.  We also use songs to help teach specific concepts.  As the advertising industry knows, putting something to music helps the brain remember.  If you’re ever at PVN on Wednesday, feel free to stop by the Blue Neighborhood sing-a-long and join us in song and dance (and learning)!  Read More

Weebe Elk visited the first graders during lunch on October 13.  The children enjoyed chanting      "E-L-K-S!"  Weebe visited each table giving out high fives and hugs to all.  We learned that Weebe is the Centerville HS mascot and we can see him at lots of Centerville sporting events.  Thanks, Weebe for visiting PVN! Read More

Students and staff at Primary Village North engaged in a week-long focus on careers that was highlighted on Thursday, September 29 with vehicles (plus two horses) used in various careers. On hand to help the students better understand the world of work, were a police cruiser, a SWAT team vehicle, a tractor, a garbage truck, and even a hazmat truck with a specialist inside a contamination free jumpsuit that had some PVNer’s believing an astronaut had visited. Read More

Primary Village North is celebrating a smooth and successful opening!  There were lots of smiles (and a few tears, but mostly from parents!) as our children entered PVN's doors on August 24th.  We are amazed at how quickly the children learned their way to their new classrooms.  We are now busy meeting new friends, building classroom community and establishing routines and rituals.  What a WONDERful year we have to look forward to! Read More

August 24th is around the corner and we are excited to get the school year underway!  In order to help our students (and their parents!) feel comfortable and at home at PVN, we are offering opportunities for families to visit Primary Village North prior to the first day of school on August 24th.  Letters were just mailed to each and every PVN student today (August 3, 2011).  The letter includes your child's teacher's name and session (for preschool, young fives and kindergarten).  We also included an invitation for a "Meet the Teacher Event." Read More

Story written by Mrs. Adkins' first grade class: Read More

The Young Fives classes were eager to begin the new year with an author study about Dr. Seuss. We learned that he loved to draw and create, even when he was very young...just like us! After reading many of his books, we decided “There's a Wocket in My Pocket” was our favorite one!We were smitten by the silly rhymes and the silly critters Dr. Seuss had created. It was just so fun to read it that we decided we had to make our version, complete with our own rhymes and crazy creatures. This video shows our finished work. (Our teacher reminded us that hearing the rhymes, the chunks and individual sounds in words, would help us become better readers and writers. We also thought it made us better authors, too!) Read More