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.