Barnyard Bulletin | January 2026

With the New Year comes lots of new and exciting changes! The Barn is making some changes not only to our administrative roles, communication platforms, and classrooms, but to large scale size as well!

• Revamping Piglets! We took some time over the break to begin our Piglet revamp. We have found over the last few months that there have been a few missing pieces to the flow of our facilities since we broke off into 2. That being said we are going to relicense our Piglet Classroom to be a 1-2 year old classroom! This will better help support our kiddos through transitions and gives us more wiggle room to make sure we are properly transitioning our kids to The Big Red Barn.
  • What is to come?
    • We have added new toys and a more extensive dramatic play area and are working on revamped curriculum to better support this new age group. The new curriculum will be implemented starting in February!

• Expanding The Big Red Barn! We were very busy over the break and closed on a new facility not far from The Big Red Barn. We are branching out and creating a sister school that will be focused more on our passion for spreading God’s love. The Big Red Barn Christian Academy will hopefully be opening in March or April of 2026! Ms. Alicia will be partnering with Ashley on this adventure as she takes on her dream of creating a Faith Based Bible Curriculum for Early Childhood settings! We will be on the hunt for a new director to replace Alicia at The Big Red Barn over the next few months, but if you see her make sure to give her some love and a big congratulations as she takes this next step into her career.

• New Parent Communication Portal! Now that we will be a 3 site operation we will be switching from Brightwheel to an app called Playground. Playground has all the same basic functions as Brightwheel, but has a lot more to offer when it comes to operating multiple sites. Be on the lookout for next steps in this transition as we will hopefully be switching over by 2/15/26.

• New Administrative Role! We are so excited to officially announce that Ms. Maisey will be coming back onboard as our Conscious Discipline Coordinator and Floating Trainer. She has been working hard on becoming an expert on all things Conscious Discipline and will help us through our implementation stages. She will be working with all teachers in all three locations. Over the next 2 weeks she will be subbing in infant classrooms to get a better idea of the infant world. Please help her feel at home and give her all the knowledge of your classrooms so she can work to support you in the best possible way! To learn more about her role, please click here.