December - Such a busy month. :)

It's been a busy month with a lot of cute crafts. Santa comes to visit Friday December 18, during our Christmas party. Reminder that preschool/child care is closed December 21 - December 29. Preschool/child care will open back up on Wednesday December 30th.

Santa

Today we made Santa's.... 2 children were absent today, but they can do it tomorrow. I hung them right inside the back entry so the parents see them when they pick up. I think they turned out adorable.

Bears Everywhere. :)

This week and last week our theme was Bear's Everywhere. Today all the children brought their favorite teddy bear. If they didn't have bears, they brought another stuffed animal. We read the bears and other stuffed animals a book, sang a song and decorated bear cookies. We'll have one of those for snack this afternoon. The kids had a fun time mixing up the frosting and frosting the cookies. :)

It's been a Long time.... :)

Boy have I been terrible the last month on putting in posts..... :)

We have have been very busy the last few weeks. I've taken lots of pictures and will be adding them onto photobucket for you (the parents), to view. We learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin, carved out a pumpkin.... (That was fun), and cooked the seeds we got from the pumpkin. Those tasted soooo good.

Currently we're talking about bears. Our favorite bear is the polar bear which is as tall as our ceiling. Wow...... :)

Apple Tree, Apple Tree

Our theme this week and next week is Apple Tree, Apple Tree. We read the book “Autumn is for Apples” during circle time. Our letter of the week was the letter Aa, number 3, color red and shape circle.

On Wednesday and Thursday we took a guess how many seeds were in an apple and recorded our guesses. We wanted to see how close we would come. Of course, we then needed to eat the apples. They were soooo good!

We will continue next week again with the theme Apple Tree, Apple Tree. We have some more cute projects and crafts to do.

This week our theme is Apple Tree, Apple Tree. Wednesday and Thursday, we guessed how many seeds was in an apple, documented it, and then cut open an apple and counted the seeds. As you can see by the guesses, everyone did very good. We also had to eat those apples. :)
Yummy.....

Apple Tree, Apple Tree

This week and next week our theme is Apple Tree, Apple Tree. Our letters are A & O. Numbers 3 & 4, Shape Circle and Color Red.
We had a fun time with our School Days theme the last 2 weeks, and we are looking forward to learning about apples. :)

Mondays is Show and Tell Day. If the children want to bring something, please make sure that is something that is not breakable, and small enuogh for them to carry. :)

Thanks Jean

Our 1st Week Back to Preschool

This past week sure was a busy week. We started a new little boy - Landon this week, and he is fitting in just perfectly. All spots are filled at "Treasures" and that makes for a very busy time, but we like busy. :)
We started this past week - back to preschool. The children are getting back into the routine of circle time, large and small group activities. We do try to get outside in the morning for a little bit. We are having Travel Tots come once a week on Wednesday's. This past week, they visited Ireland. The children make a little leprechaun and an Irish flag. They are having a great time back at school.
Friday Folders went home on Friday. Just take the children's creations/paperwork out and bring them back on Monday for the kids to receive a sticker.
I hope everyone is having a great week-end, and see everyone back bright eyed and busy tailed on Monday. :)
Jean

Our 1st Day of Preschool

Yesterday was our 1st day back to preschool and we had a great time! Our theme for the next 2 weeks is School Days. We leearned about the letter T and the color yellow yesterday, and our book for the week is: David Goes to School.
Today Travel Tots is coming. We have a new teacher. I know the children are looking forward to them being back.

It Has Been One Busy Week. :)

Monday we started 3 new girls, and having Micah leaving on Monday and Mason leaving on Thursday, it's been a bitter/sweet week. :)
Our new friends at "Treasures" are Jordyn, Ayanna and Maryan. All 3 little ladies are 3 years old. We will start a new friend on Tuesday. Landen.
We will be starting back with preschool next Tuesday with 2 weeks of School Days. It was nice having this week for the girls to get use to our program and I was able to do some testing to see where they are at.....
Looking forward to the start of preschool next week!

More Fall Fun. :)

I added 2 more file folder games to the Fall Fun section. :)
I will be adding 1 or 2 more...

Travel Tots!

I'm excited to let everyone know that Travel Tots will be back next month..... The kids have missed their travel adventures, and we will be getting a new teacher. Travel Tots will be starting up September 9. (9:00 - 10:00).

I do have them scheduled to come once a week, and the additional cost for the other weeks, I will cover. The cost will still be the same $5.00 per child, per session. (Parents will cover 2 sessions a month). Please add $10.00 a month, per child to your 1st months check. Thank you.... I know the kids will be excited....
Jean :)

Parent Aware Video Shoot

We had the Parent Aware video shoot today, and I think it went great.... The kids were perfect.... :)
We got done at 12:00. Kids go to nap at that time, so after lunch they got down late, but they were still troopers having their schedule messed with.... :)
I will find out in 3 weeks, when they get the video done, what they all used. They said I could either come to a screening of the video or they could come out and show it. I think I would like that so the kids can see themselves. I will also get a copy....
Now to relax because I stressed about it all week. :)

Painting with Chalk

We had a fun time this morning painting with chalk. First we has to break the chalk up. We did this by putting it into baggies and using our hammers from the wood center, we mashed them up... We then poured the chalk pieces into a bowl, added water and mixed it like a cake.

We had so much fun, and when we got done, lean up was so easy.

We also ran around and left our footprints all over.

We're looking for different ways to paint... :)

Messy Fun

I'm adding an art center outside in the playyard. One of the new items are the easels. There are 3 of them. I put shaving cream on them this afternoon and let the boys "paint" the easel with their hands. They practiced writing some letters also.

Clean up wasn't too bad. I had to spray them down with the hose, but they stayed pretty dry considering.

I'll be adding some play doh, real paints, and some other items. Next time I would like to bring out the food coloring for when we do shaving cream. I think they would love to see how the colors change.