This morning after a nice long session of outside play we read “Chicka Chicka 123”. Then the older kiddos practiced using scissors and glue to make their own number trees. The little ones had some sensory fun with our alphabet squish bag, and then we all enjoyed some creative time with play dough.
The last year has been a transformative time of growth for my child care program. I began to implement a curriculum and more structured day, and I think it’s been great not only for the kids but for me. It’s been a process of trial and error, and I have started to really develop a vision for how I want to further improve. Planning our activities takes a lot of time and energy and since we will surely have days…
Some highlights from our week! We made owls and octopuses, played some new games, had fun with sensory bins, and soaked up all the sun we could!
Highlights from our week! Our letter of the week was M, so we made monsters and muffins together. The younger kiddos had fun playing some color and shape matching games that I’ve been working on. We’ve been enjoying the sunshine and exploring the yard looking for bugs and this morning we had a dance party.
For Earth Day we read Curious George Plants a Tree, and (one of my favorites) The Water Hole. The older kiddos made paintings of the earth and the babies got to play with paint in a mess free, sensory way. We played with playdoh and plastic animals, making tracks in the playdoh, and we talked about our favorite ones. After circle time was done we watched an episode of one of our favorite shows, Ask The Storybots, and learned all…
This week our focus was the letter Kk. We read Koala Lou and Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother Too. We learned about koalas, kookaburras and kangaroos! We turned the letter K into mamma kangaroos and joeys, and we sang the Kookaburra song. We played outside and even though today was rainy we made kites that we can fly another time.
What a fun week! We spent some time in the garden planting peas and talking about spring, we read lots of fun books (it was hard to pick a favorite this week), did colorful Easter crafts, turned ourselves into bunnies and of course had an egg hunt to close out the week!
We’ve had a couple weeks of sunshine and warmer weather here and were expecting a rainy, cold day today. So, to close out the week we had a PJ day and popcorn party! Story Time and Circle Time were popcorn themed this morning. I created some educational popcorn games and we played with painting popcorn. The 2 year olds LOVED our popcorn color match game! After nap we ate popcorn while watching a movie. The kids picked Big Hero 6….
