All About Apples

It was all about apples this week in Toddler Time!

Our story this week was 10 Apples Up On Top by Dr Seuss. We also watched a video of the book set to song. The little ones enjoyed the song, and we saw some pretty cute dance moves.

We are still enjoying the ABC song. We revisited 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. We also sang Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes. Here is the video we watched on the iPad.

We introduced our sensory tub this week. It is filled with rolled oats. Our little ones had fun scooping and pouring the oats. Some of the girls decided they couldn't get enough oats and climbed right in! Cora might have initiated this move :)

We practiced our fine motor skills with stickers. We added red and yellow circle stickers to our apple tree. Everyone liked stickers, and their little trees turned out so cute!

Painting this week was fun with apples. We stamped apple halves in red paint and created wonderful art work. Make sure to look take a look at our art work displayed both inside and outside our classroom. Our little ones are very proud of their creations!

April, Becky, Jill, and I enjoy our time with your little ones. Thank you for sharing them with us each week!

Week 2

Week 2 in Toddler Time was a short one. We hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day holiday. We missed our Monday little ones and look forward to seeing them again Monday.

This week we saw more confidence in our little ones. We are seeing their personalities come out little by little. We are learning to play with our friends, and to share toys. We play part of the time with smaller toys in our main room. Later in the day, we move to our second room with larger push toys and riding toys.

This week we sang the ABC song and Twinkle Twinkle. We also added 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. Below is the video we watched for that song.

For our sensory play this week, we played with "Ice Cream" pom poms. We held the fuzzy pom poms. We practiced putting them in cups & paper cones. We tried scooping them with spoons. We even tossed some around the room! All our little ones seemed to like the soft fuzziness.

For our art project, we used styrofoam cups to stamp circles on paper with paint. We didn't get as messy as we did with the hand prints the previous week. They seemed to like the popping noise the cups made on the paper. We added paper cones to our stamped circles to make ice cream cones.

Notes:

- September tuition is now due

- Dismissal for Toddler Time is 11:15 each day

- The Fall Family Picnic is coming up September 19 at 11am. More details will be coming in your child's binder.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone next week!

First Week

We had a good first week in Toddler Time. It has been fun meeting all our little ones. Coming to school is a big step for them. We are proud of how good they have done adjusting. We know they will continue to get more comfortable each week.

This week we met our new classmates and spent lots of time exploring the rooms and toys. We got out of our classroom a little and took a wagon ride, and played with balls in the gym.

We started learning sit at the table, fold our hands, and say grace before eating our snack.

Everyone had lots of fun popping bubbles and listening to songs. Our songs for the week were ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and If You're Happy and You Know it. The videos we watched are posted below.

We also did an art project this week. We used paint and construction paper to make handprints. Some of our little ones weren't quite sure about having that messy paint on their hands. Our handprints made wings for sweet little owls to decorate our room and hallway.

Thank you Moms and Dads for sharing your little ones with us!

*** We won't have class on Monday due to the Labor Day holiday.

Open House

We are so excited to meet our new Toddler Time kids! 

Open House is Friday, August 16th at:

• 6:00pm for students with last names starting with A-M, with a brief informational meeting at 6:20pm.
• 7:00pm for students with last names starting with N-Z, with a brief informational meeting at 7:20pm.

Open House is a great time to meet us and see your new classroom. Please bring your enrollment packets and your first month tuition payment that night.

Our Winter-Themed January

We focused on winter this month, even though yesterday was a near record 65 degrees outside.  We had salt and cotton balls in our sensory table this month.  Everyone loved the feeling of the salt falling through their little fingers.  We also played in trays of ice that were very, very cold...brrr. During craft time, we made "stained glass" mittens for our windows and two different kinds of snowmen for our hallway wall.

Now that half of the school year is behind us, I took moments this month thinking about how much each toddler has grown. And boy have they grown! Everyone who has been coming since August now walks in the room with no more tears.  This is huge because leaving mommy is always so hard. They sit during snack time, fold their hands, listen to our prayer, and says "Amen" before they eat.  This makes my heart smile at each snack time! The toddlers are also all sitting and listen to a story, and are now learning a lot of animal sounds and body parts. Ask them to show you their mouth, eyes, nose, ears, hands, and toes. I am so proud of them all and they add such joy to my day.  Thank you moms and dads for sharing them with me.

Blake, Spencer, and Tia working on their mittens.

Leland, Lydia, & Tia and Spencer & Blake
playing in the cold ice.

Jude, Addy, Kingston, and Tia
playing in the salt tabe.

Tia and Leland folding their hands for prayer.


Our Snack Time Prayer:
God is great, God is good. Let us thank Him for our food. Amen.



Our Holiday Season

We had a great November and December in Toddler Time.  We made some fun Turkey crafts and played in canned pumpkin during the Thanksgiving season.  Throughout December we worked hard on practicing shaking our jingle bells for the Christmas program.  We made santa hats, ornaments, and a very cute plate for our mom's and dad's for christmas.  We played in our christmas themed sensory table and got to have a pajama party the last week of school before christmas break.  I am so proud of how well everyone did during the christmas program. Each toddler looked so cute on the stage, shaking their jingle bells! Mrs. Jill and I are looking forward to the new year and we will be welcoming two new toddlers to our Monday Toddler Time.



Spencer, Blake, and Leland during our
pajama party

 

Spencer, Tia, and Leland ready to ring
their jingle bells at the Christmas Program



Braylan and Lydia



 

Kingston, Luke, and Tia playing in our
Christmas sensory table





 



A Spook-tacular October

October was filled with a lot of Halloween crafts, a falled themed sensory table, and our very first time to the playground!! This month we made bats, ghosts, and witches hats. We used a lot of black paint and used our glue sticks for the first time.  Our sensory table had cornflakes in it at the beginning of the month with fun fall things to play with and feel.  We had pinecones, leaves, and pretend pumkins and gords to play and dump. Some of the toddlers joined us on a field trip with the older kids to the apple orchard where we were able to see how they make apple cider and walk through the trees where the apples grow.  This month we also got to play on the playground for the first time.  This was big news in our room!!  Everyone had a blast and Mrs. Jill and I were glad we went at the end of the day because no one wanted to leave the playground to go back inside.  We ended our month with a Boo-riffic Halloween party.  Moms, Dads, Grandmas, and Aunts came to join us as we played ghost bowling and dug for candy.  They also helped us make a ghost out of our foot print to take home. Overall October was a Spook-tacular month!!



Luke putting sprinkles on his pumpkin



Pumpkins from our handprints





        



Painting Spencer's foot for a ghost craft



Kingston dressed up for our Halloween Party



Leland and Tia dressed up for Halloween