Playgroup SHARES Space on Tues and Thursdays!

Dear Families - 

COS is providing church school facilities to a catholic church on Tuesdays and Thursdays while our Playgroup is in the Nursery.  So on those days, we'll see activity in the class areas beyond the Nursery.  Please be sweet and enter the Nursery quietly so that they can conduct their classes.  They will NOT be using the Nursery area at all.  COS thanks us for our cooperation!

There's a NEW KITCHEN SET at the Playgroup!

Many thanks to the Playgroup families who contributed to a group donation to the COS Nursery Renovation Project.  We were able to purchase 2 nice components of a kitchen - a stove and a sink!  Let's play kitchen soon...

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