Holiday House Decorating

What a fun morning! We had our annual Holiday House Decorating this morning, and it was wonderful! So nice to see our families, and the kiddos had a blast with decorating their houses.

Happy holidays and Happy New Year from all of us at The Children's Center!

Holiday Traditions Around the World

Please join us on Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m for our annual Holiday House Decorating! It is such a great time! Hope to see you all there.

Happy holidays and Happy New Year from all of us at The Children's Center!

Week of: December 19- 23
Theme: Holiday Traditions Around the World
Social Learning Goal: Accepting others differences, being generous
Spanish Learning Goal: Numeros
Academic Learning Goal: Syllables, Letter J/j

Books:
Harold and the Purple Crayon at the North Pole 
How Santa Lost His Job
The Snowman 
The Little Tree 
Can You Say Peace? 
The Mitten 
Geraldine's Big Snow 
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 


Activities:
Weekend talk
Mitten memory
How people celebrate the holidays around the world (PPT)
J Mystery bag
J poem
Story retelling
The holidays are about... (whiteboard)

Ariann's Project: Holiday lights and tree ornaments (M,T) Reading group (W), Reindeer and snow globes (TH)

Julie's Project: Spin the driedel (M,T,W)
AJ's Project: How to make the grinch grin and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (M, T, W)

Space

Week of: December 12-16
Theme: Space
Social Learning Goal: Addresses
Spanish Learning Goal: Numeros
Academic Learning Goal: Syllables, Letter G/g

Books:
Our Stars 
The Night Sky 
Mooncake 
Tinker and Tom and the Star Baby
Zoo Day Ole! 
Me and My Place in Space 
Moongame 


Activities:
Weekend talk
What we KNOW about space
Story retelling
Light bright constellations
Phases of the moon (science lesson)
G poem
What we LEARNED about space

Ariann's Project: Planet Pastells (M,T, F), Reading group (W)

Julie's Project: On my planet... (M, T, W), Rocket ships (TH)
AJ's Project: Constellations (M,T,W), foil moons

Marble Jar Party II

We had an AWESOME party this morning at Bitterroot Gymnastics! Thanks to Libby, Mandi, and Amanda for volunteering their time (and energy) with us today. The kiddos had such a wonderful time and were so well behaved! I was very proud, and we had fun!