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 ; )

 

 

 

September 2014 Newsletter

Luna, the Sign In/Out gate keeper.

Our newsletter this month reflects on July and August. It's the end of a school year and the beginning of a new one and we have some updates to share with you. Starting the first week of September we have two new friends starting, Saparya and Juliet!

Important Dates to Remember:

• Monday, Sept. 1st - Closed for labor Day
• Thursday, Sept. 4th - Anna's 2nd Birthday, 4pm party at school!

At the end of July we said good-bye to our friends Claire, Sienna and Mateo. On graduation day we had blast by playing a Lego board Game, making Lemon Poppy Cupcakes and sharing hugs a kisses. We wish our friends the best of luck with this new transition and hope they we see them again in the future. Here is a peak at some good times before our Summer Break.

Chase, Anna & Mila cooking together.

Sienna putting her babies to bed.

Mateo & Chase shooting baskets.

Claire & Mateo taking turns tracing each other's hand.

Painting with cars.

Sydney visits us.

The girls working their puzzle magic.

Sienna creating a pattern.

Chase & Mila singing with the musical puzzle.

Mila adding color to our Milk Experiment

Sienna's turn...

Now Claire's...

Then we add soap!

Tyson loved it!

Graduation Day:

Best Buddies, since 5m and 1yr olds

Getting their sillies out!

Hugs!

And Kisses!

Game Time!

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August has been such a short month for us. I hope that everyone had a great Summer Break visiting home towns, family, and just taking a break from reality. We started this school year out with the letters A & B and two friends who came to play with us for a week, Tyson and his good friend Ayla. It has been such a pleasure to have them join us. They were really excited to join us and have been having such a good time, we will miss them when they return to school. We do, however, have some new faces joining us and we can't wait for them to start! Saparya, who we call Jumper will be with us a few short days and a few full days a week. Juliet will be joining us for drop in when our schedule allow for another friend to join.

With this new year's schedule we are having less of our friends come on Fridays. Starting in September,
Music Classes will be held on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 9:30 AM. Please arrive by 9:15. We have made a request for Thursdays so that everyone can participate, in that case Music would be moved from Wednesdays to Thursdays. Will we keep you posted.

Here are a few moments captured this month:

Working on patterns

He's really good with this puzzle.

A is for Apple!

Using apple slices as stamps.

Choo Choo!

Water play for Mila, Ayla & Tyson

My Girls!