As we wrap up another week of staying strong together, it is with great excitement we introduce you to our newest high-quality, home-based curriculum that encourages learning and play, Online with Og®!

While impossible to replicate the full Primrose early learning experience brought to life by your child’s nurturing and dedicated teachers, we want to help you by working rapidly to expand and enhance our at-home offerings, as I know many of you have a new dual, concurrent responsibility – to your children and your employer. I can only imagine the challenges you must be facing, working from home while having your children with you.

Og® is a bookworm and one of the Primrose Friends Puppets your children enjoy in the classroom.  Og® the Bookworm represents caring and literacy and is the perfect Primrose Friend to bring your child's school experience to your home. Over the next few weeks, we will provide specially designed interactive activities for children and parents as we navigate at-home learning together – complete with downloadable daily schedules and activities, art projects with instructional videos, STEAM activities and more. There’s even a ‘Snacks’ section!  Each week, new complimentary content will be made available to help you entertain and educate as you engage with your children in fun play and learning activities. We know your children will also be delighted to reconnect with their beloved Primrose Friends puppets.

This week, students at home spent their time enhancing their understanding of natural Earth materials – things they were able to find in their own backyards or while taking a walk! We are finishing up Week 1: The World Beneath My Feet. They were able to do activities like participate in our music program and sing along with Primrose Friend Billy the Duck to their favorite classroom songs, and they even had a chance to get their wiggles out twisting and stretching with Primrose Friend Mia the Mouse!

One of my favorite activities from this week’s Online with Og® curriculum selection is called, ‘Earth Materials All Around Us.’ Children are invited (by parents or teachers) to look around their world, wherever they are, for general images of Earth’s land and water and draw what they find. This encourages children to be observant of the world around them and lays a foundation for a lifelong love of nature. Want to try it at home? Visit the Online with Og® page and scroll down to the red Language & Literacy section to download the activity.

In addition to these resources offered by Primrose Schools, the Rigley Primrose Schools in Dallas, Addison, Plano and Frisco are also sharing some of their favorite children’s stories read by teachers and leadership team members on their Facebook pages (links below). Be sure to ‘like’ each page to see as new videos are posted! You can also subscribe to the Primrose Schools YouTube page for fun (and educational!) activities you can do at home.

Primrose School of Frisco West

Primrose School at Klyde Warren Park

Primrose School of Park Cities

Primrose School of Plano at Preston Meadow

Primrose School of Prestonwood

Our hope is that this new online experience enables you to connect with your child during this time at home.

Please know our entire Primrose community is thinking of you and wishing your families continued safety and health.