Week of 29 December -2 January

I hope everyone enjoyed the Christmas Holiday last week. My family and I enjoyed lots of Hot Chocolate, cookies, candy and gifts from Santa.

I just wanted to remind everyone to please keep toys at home. I know the children are excited about their new toys from Santa, but it is very important that they keep their new toys at home. Speaking of new toys: we have some new board games for the kids to play, new bats and balls and tons of new crafts supplies.

We will be spending this short week talking about how we take care of our toys, take turns and we will even take a stab at "sharing" with the 1-year-olds.

The kids will be playing Chutes and Ladders and learning to count on (meaning- when the children land on the number 5, then spin a number 4 they will count on from 5 by adding the 4 to get 9. It may sound strange but it is another great skill to help them with math concepts and we will have fun while learning.) The kids will also be enjoying some Play-Doh fun with cookie cutters and we will talk about the New Year.

Please check back through my older posts to review our Spanish words with the kids. They are all doing a wonderful job learning their new language (as they call it) and we need to work together to keep reminding them of words they have learned in past weeks.

Reminder- I am closed on New Year's Day. So far there will be no children in attendance on Friday. I will personally double check with each family by Tuesday and if no one is in need of care for Friday I will be closing that day as well and heading to PA to see family (my brother and his wife just had another baby boy 3 weeks ago).

Have a safe and Happy New Year.

Week of 22 December - 26 December

We had a wonderful Christmas party while all of the parents enjoyed some extra shopping time without the kiddos. The children watched a Christmas movie, strung cereal garland for our Christmas Tree, built some amazing things with legos, made a holiday ornament and finally decorated our Daycare Christmas tree. It was a great day and it was nice to catch up with some of our old daycare kiddos as well as meeting some of our future daycare kids.

This week we want to welcome Zachary (also known as the Zack attack) to our daycare before and after school.

We have a very short week this week. Please check the calendar below and note that daycare will be closed on Christmas Day and the day afterwards. Since most of my children are only coming Monday and Tuesday we will be chillin' out this week. The kids have a few last-minute crafts to finish up for their parents and some Christmas songs left to sing. (Thank you Mia for teaching us Feliz Navidad!)

I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. I hope Santa brings you everything you asked for, want and need.

One more thing--Do you see Ad's and the google search bar on this web page? Please click on the Ad's if they have relevant information that you'd like to view. Also, please come to this page and use our google search bar instead of just going to google (you get the same results). By clicking on the Ad's and using our search bar you are helping your kids and the daycare earn extra money for books, art supplies and educational toys. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank-you.

Video of kids Dancing

Week of 8-12 December

Week of 8-12 December

This week we are learning:

• Sight words: dad, it, mom, to
• Spanish words: Singing "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes"
  cabeza (ca,base,uh) = head
  hombros = shoulders
  piernas (Pee-air-nas)= knees
  pies = toes (actually pies means foot or feet and dedos de pies is toes, but doesn't fit in the rhythm of the song)
  ojos (oh-hose)= eyes
  orejas (oh-ray-ha)= ears
  boca (bow-ca)= mouth
  nariz = nose
• Reviewing out spanish numbers 1-10

We will be making our Rudolph Handprint Crafts this week as well.

Please don't forget our Christmas Party this Saturday. If you have not signed your children up, please sign them up on the sheet behind my door.