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The PCC Preschool — Plainfield Christian Church

We are no longer accepting applications for the 2022/2023 school year.  Enrollment for the 2023/2024 school year will be done electronically beginning at 8:00am on January 19, 2023.  Please check our site on that date for the enrollment link.

Please contact Barb Smith at [email protected] with questions regarding enrollment.

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We offer various ways for your little one to learn on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

from 9:00am-12:00pm for PCC’s Preschool programs.

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Our teachers and staff are chosen for their high moral standards, stability, and their desire to work with and nurture children.  All of our lead teachers have college degrees with a special interest in early childhood development, attend regular teaching training sessions, and are CPR-certified. 

Barb received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Indiana University and is a Certified Public Accountant. She also holds a Master’s degree in Elementary Education. Barb and her family have been members of PCC since 1995 and she has been the PCC Preschool Director since the school began in 2003. Barb is married to her High School sweetheart and has two grown children. Barb truly believes that an Iced Chai Tea Latte should be its own food group, and that wandering aimlessly through Target should be considered a profession.

Barb Smith
Preschool Director

Karen holds degrees in Child Development from Indiana State University and in Early Childhood Education from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College with additional Master’s work in Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana Wesleyan University. She is licensed in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten education and worked with the Indiana Department of Education to develop the current Early Learning Foundations. Karen joined the Preschool staff in 2013. She and her husband have two grown daughters and five grandchildren; and, their family are active members in their church. Karen loves running (slowly) and participates in 5K races regularly solely to add to her medal collection. She and her husband also enjoy hiking and have a goal of one day visiting all 61 national parks.

Karen Guess
Preschool Teacher/Assistant Director

Kalee Taylor graduated from University of Indianapolis in 2007 with a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education and is also licensed as a Reading Specialist. She taught as a Title I Reading Teacher in Wayne Township for ten years. Since then, she has been a stay at home mom for two years. Kalee is married to Ricky and has two daughters; Remy and Ryah. A perfect day for Kalee would be spent on the beach, in the sunshine, drinking sweet tea with family.

Kalee Taylor
Pre-Kindergarten Teacher

Megan graduated from the University of Indianapolis in 2007 with a degree in elementary and special education with an emphasis in reading. She was a K-4 special education teacher in IPS for 7 years and also coached their co-ed middle school soccer team. Following teaching, she was blessed with the opportunity to stay home and raise her two children Ayva and Isaac. Megan grew up going to PCC and her and her husband are now raising their children in the church, while serving together with PCC Kids. When she’s not visiting all the local toddler entertainment facilities, Megan enjoys working out at Orange Theory.

Megan Burford
Pre-Kindergarten Teacher

Gina received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education from Franklin College. She then earned a middle school math endorsement and taught 7th and 8th grade math at Avon Middle School South for seven years. After having her second child, she had the opportunity to stay home with her boys, Vance and Carter. Gina began her career with the Preschool in 2019. If she is not maintaining their home zoo comprised of four different species of animals with her husband Ben, Gina can be found at PCC, Brentwood Elementary, where she serves on the PTO, or enjoying an overly long meal at Chick-fil-A.

Gina Grimes
Pre-Kindergarten Teacher

Anna obtained her Elementary Education degree from Purdue University. She taught at Monrovia Elementary for four years in Kindergarten, first and second grade. She also coached high school volleyball. Anna stayed home when her first son was born. Anna and her husband Jerry have three boys and they all attended PCC Preschool and they attend church at PCC. If she is not watching her boys play baseball, football or basketball Anna likes to be outdoors, spend time with family, travel and play pickleball with friends.

Anna Dotson
Pre-Kindergarten Teacher

Hayley grew up in Columbus, Indiana.  She attended Ball State University, earning a degree in Family and Child Studies.  Upon graduation, she gained 6 years of experience in early childhood education as a teacher, and then administrator.  With the birth of her second child she decided to take on a new role as a stay at home mom.  During that time she discovered a love for the Plainfield community.  Hayley and her husband David attend church at PCC with their two children, Turner and Scottie.  They enjoy serving at Pier 14 as middle school small group leaders.  When she isn’t volunteering or working with the PTO, Hayley enjoys time with family, bike rides, long walks with her dog, and pickleball with friends.

Hayley Nichols
Pre-Kindergarten Teacher

Ruby graduated from Ball State University with a degree in Elementary Education and Special Education in 2008 and from Indiana Wesleyan University with a Masters of Education in 2013. She was a special education teacher in Avon for 8 years. After her youngest son was born in 2016, she stayed home to be full time mom. Ruby and her husband, Tim, have 3 boys; Bram, Zeke, and Fynn. All of her boys have been through PCC Preschool and loved every moment. Her family loves hiking, going on bike rides together, listening to music, and getting overly competitive in just about any game. 

Ruby Jacobs
Preschool Teacher

Alissa studied elementary education at Lincoln Christian University before marrying her husband, Josiah, and becoming a stay at home mom for 9 years. She and Josiah have four boys, Oliver, Jude, Theo, and Paxton.

She joined the Plainfield Christian Church Preschool staff in 2022, and has a great passion for early childhood aged children. She loves to go hiking and camping with her family and their dog, Wynston. She enjoys iced coffee, reading, and going thrifting when she gets a little alone time!

Alissa Brock
Early Start Teacher

Noelle graduated from Ozark Christian College with her Associates in Christian Ministry in 2015. She later became a paraprofessional in a Missouri school until she had her son in 2018. She moved to Indiana in 2020 and started working in a preschool where she received her Child Development Associate credential. When she is not teaching, she loves to take her son swimming. To relax she grabs her hooks and crochets. When she gets the chance, she loves to act on stage and sing. 

Noelle Edmondson
Early Start Teacher

We recognize the importance of the formative early years

“As a parent, you want to see your children have every opportunity to grow socially, academically, and spiritual—which is the type of environment PCC Preschool offers. “

-Chad and Amanda Hauskins

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3. Archaeological Interlude

We tear down mountains and mindlessly build hills.

Forty minutes northeast of the city of Flores on Lake Petén Itza in northern Guatemala, a paved tourist road leads to the ruins of Tikal, the largest Classical Maya monument, whose white temples rise 70 meters above the jungle-covered ground. nine0003

In the opposite direction, until recent improvements halved travel time, the rutted road southeast of Flores took three miserable hours, ending in the battered outpost of Sayaxche, where an army machine gun is perched atop a Mayan pyramid.

Sayaxche stands on the Rio Pación, the “River of Passion”, which flows lazily through the western part of the province of Petén to the confluence of the Usumacinta and Salinas rivers, which together form the border between Guatemala and Mexico. Pasion was once a major trade route for jade, fine pottery, quetzal feathers and jaguar skins. Recently these goods have been joined by smuggled mahogany and cedar logs, opium from poppies growing in the highlands of Guatemala, and looted Mayan artefacts. Early 191990s motorized wooden longboats on the sluggish Pasion tributary, the Riochuelo Petexbatun, also carried more modest items that are considered luxury in the Petén province: corrugated zinc roofing sheets and cans of canned minced meat.

To imagine our great, all-conquering civilization really ended – and lying forgotten under layers of dirt and earthworms – is as difficult as depicting the edge of the universe.

They were intended for the base camp that Arthur Demarest of Vanderbilt University built from mahogany planks in a clearing in the jungle for the largest archaeological dig ever to uncover one of the greatest mysteries: the disappearance of the Mayan civilization. nine0003

How can we even think about the world without us? Fantasies about aliens with death rays are just fantasies. To imagine our great, all-conquering civilization truly ended—and lying forgotten under layers of dirt and earthworms—is as difficult as depicting the edge of the universe.

However, the Maya actually existed. Their world seemed to flourish forever, and when it reached its zenith, it would be much more established than ours. For at least 1,600 years, some 6 million Maya lived in a world vaguely reminiscent of southern California, a flourishing metropolis of city-states with few intermissions between interlocking suburbs in the plain that today is occupied by Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. Their imposing architecture, astronomy, mathematics and literature surpassed the achievements of European contemporaries. Equally astonishing and far less clear is how such a large population could live in a tropical rainforest. For centuries they have grown their food and supported their families in the same fragile natural environment that today is being quickly devastated by a relatively few hungry illegal settlers. nine0003

But what confuses archaeologists even more is the sudden, spectacular collapse of the Maya. From the 8th century A. D. e. in just a hundred years, the lowland Maya civilization disappeared. In most of the Yucatan, only scattered remnants of the population remained. Guatemala’s northern province of Petén has become a world without people. Rainforest vegetation quickly covered ballrooms and squares, and covered the tall pyramids. For a thousand years the world did not even know they existed.

But the Earth preserves the spirits of even entire peoples. Archaeologist Arthur Demarest, a squat, bushy-mustache Louisiana Cajun], turned down a seat at Harvard because Vanderbilt offered him the chance to exhume a similar spirit. During his graduation fieldwork in El Salvador, Demarest hurried to save ancient records from an approaching dam that had driven many from their homes and turned them into guerrillas. When three of his workers were accused of terrorism, he asked the officials to let them go, but they were executed anyway.

During his early years in Guatemala, guerrillas and the army hunted each other a few kilometers away from his excavations, and their skirmishes included people still speaking the language derived from the hieroglyphs he and his team were trying to decipher. nine0003

“Indiana Jones, hacking his way through a fictitious typical Third World of swarthy people with frightening, incomprehensible customs, defeating them with American heroism and stealing treasure,” he says, dabbing at his thick black hair. He would have stayed here for five seconds. Archeology is not shiny objects, but their context. We are part of the context. It is the fields of our workers that are burning, it is their children who have malaria. We came here to study the ancient civilization, and were engaged in obtaining knowledge about modernity. nine0003

By the light of a camp lamp, he writes on a damp night to the roar of howlers, putting together pieces of knowledge about how, for almost two millennia, the Maya found ways to resolve differences between peoples without destroying each other’s societies in the process. But then something went wrong. Famine, drought, epidemics, overpopulation, and environmental plunder were blamed for the fall of the Maya – but none of these reasons can explain destruction on such a scale. There is no evidence of alien interference. Often hailed as a conspicuously stable and peaceful people, the Maya were the least likely to outwit themselves and fall prey to their own greed. nine0003

However, this seems to be exactly what happened in the steamy Petén – and the path to disaster seems so familiar.

The trail from Riochuelo Petexbatun to Dos Pilas, the first of seven major settlements discovered by the Demarest team, travels for hours through mosquito-infested spaces overgrown with moraine vines and lomatia bushes, and then climbs a steep slope. In the remaining groves, still unlooted by poached lumberjacks, giant cedars, ceibs, latex-producing sapodillas, redwoods and brosiums rise from the thin tropical soils that cover the Petene limestone. Along the jagged edge of the cliff, the Maya built cities that Arthur Demarest archaeologists have identified once formed a kingdom called Petexbatun. Today, what appear to be hills and ranges are actually pyramids and walls built from pieces of local limestone cut with flint adzes, camouflaged with soil and mature rainforest. nine0003

The jungle surrounding Dos Pilas, filled with clicking toucans and parrots, was so dense that, after its discovery in the 1950s, it took only 17 years to discover the origin of the nearby hill, which turned out to be a 67-meter-high pyramid. In fact, for the Maya, the pyramids were mountains, and the carved monoliths, called stelae, were stone images of trees. Signs of dots and sticks, carved on the steles at the foot of Dos Pilas, say that around 700 AD. e. his “k’uhul ahau” – the sacred ruler – began to violate the rules that limit conflicts, and engaged in the usurpation of the neighboring city-states of Petexbatun. nine0003

A moss-covered stele shows him in full headdress, holding a shield, standing on the back of a bound captive. Before the collapse of society, the Maya wars of the classical period were often associated with astrological cycles and at first glance could seem extremely terrible. A male from the opposing royal family had to be captured and displayed in all humiliation, sometimes for years. Then his heart was torn out of his chest, or he was beheaded, or tortured to death – in Dos Pilas, one of the victims was tightly wrapped and tied, and then used to play on the ceremonial ball game field until his back broke. nine0003

“And yet,” notes Demarest, “there was no social tragedy, no destruction of fields or buildings, no seizure of territories. The price of the ritual wars of the classical Maya was minimal. It was a way of keeping the peace through constant, low-pitched warfare that vented tensions between leaders without harming the landscape.”

And the landscape was a working balance between natural and artificial nature. On the hillsides, Mayan walls of densely packed pebbles retained rich humus from the sewage from cultivated terraces, now lost under millennia of sedimentation. Along the lakes and rivers, the Maya dug ditches to drain the swamps, and from the dug soil they created fertile raised fields. True, they basically mimicked the rainforest, providing layers of shade for various crops.