Wednesday, October 29, 2014

November 2014 Newslettter

At the Pumpkin Patch checking out the Rabbits and Turkeys


Happy Halloween!! Another month swept out from underneath us and just a few more months to go before this year is completely over. (The weather will surely get cooler, please remember to put a warm hat in your child's bag.) Time to get ready for the holidays, time with friends and family, and full bellies. We have thoroughly enjoyed Halloween crafts, the idea of wearing a costume and picking out a pumpkin. Take a look at our month in October.

Important Dates to Remember:
  • Tues, Nov. 11-Closed for Veteran's Day
  • Wed. Nov. 26 - Fri. Nov. 28 - Closed for Thanksgiving Break

Jack O Lanterns






Dress Up and Play Time

Trick Or Treat!

Some for you.

What do you think? Is it me?

Peek-A-Boo!

I See You!


The Dr. and her Patient








 Getting to know Dylan
 
Changing Diapers

Kisses!

Hi, nice to meet you!


Orange Finger Paintings






Music Time









Tuesday, September 30, 2014

October 2014 Newsletter


Jam Session with Juliet, Sapaya & Chase
The days of Summer are behind us now, which will hopefully bring us some cooler weather. Not only has this muggy weather been keeping us toasty but all of our jam sessions have, too! Our new music teacher, Memi, is teaching us some new groovy songs. We are showing and sharing some fun things with our new friends and getting to know each other.  And we have a new student starting next month. We can't wait to welcome, Dylan, Claire's baby brother to our group.



Saparya and Mateo saying hello to a puppet turtle during Music Class


Important Dates to Remember:
  • Oct. 13th - Closed for Columbus & Indigenous People's Day
  • Oct. 22nd - Saparya's 2nd Birthday
  • Oct. 27th - Kimberly's Birthday
  • Oct. 29th - Monica's Birthday
  • Oct. 31st - Halloween




Dandelion Puff Project:

We started out this project by stapling a pipe cleaner, our stem, to our paper. In the past we have come to find that it is extremely difficult to glue the pipe cleaners in place, so we secured them down for this project.

We then went ahead and made a small circle, with our glue brushes, at the very top of the pipe cleaners.


 






























Then we placed a cotton ball, which would be the center of the dandelion puff, on the circle of glue.






 


 
 







We made a big circle with the glue around the cotton ball.



















After the center of the dandelion puff was in place the real fun began! Using Q-tips cut in half, we made sure that the bottom of the sticks touched the cotton ball to make the dandelion seeds.













The results are beautiful!
 
Experimenting with Bubbles using water and oil:
 
                                                     Starting out with a dish full of oil..


                                        We used droppers to add food coloring into the dish..


                                                    The kids didn't know what to expect...


 
They realized the drops of food coloring made balls of color in the oil. We called them bubbles. This was a really fun experiment and the kids really enjoyed the fine motor activity of squeezing the bulb of the dropper to suck up the liquid in and then squeezing it again to shoot the liquid out; literally! They also had a bunch of fun poking the bubbles with the droppers until we had a big blob of color and no more bubbles.
 
 

 
 
Making Cookies with Shapes:
 
Sorry we didn't share! These cookies, or at least the dough, were make out of whole wheat flour and without all the sugar and vanilla flavoring. The Martha Stewart recipe was great for cookie cutters and baked really quickly. We did add some fun colorful edible confetti and sprinkles to them for color and more fine motor development. Take a look at how fun making the shapes were. We ran out of camera space once we were done cutting the shapes out but the sprinkles and such required all hands on deck! They did come out beautifully though ; )