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)

Thanksgiving

I was out of town for most of Thanksgiving week, but here are some fun pictures from the week! 

Halloween!

What a fun Halloween celebration this morning! Such great costumes, SO much fun! Thanks for all the parents who came along and trick-or-treated with us! Enjoy some pictures from our party, as well as some cute shots from outside time this week! 

Our Halloween party is this Friday from 10:15-11:15! Please bring your child in their costume for neighborhood trick-or-treating and a halloween party at school!

Week of: October 24-28
Theme: Halloween
Social Learning Goal: Taking turns
Spanish Learning Goal: Manner words
Academic Learning Goal: Phone numbers, letter H/h, letter E/e

Books:
A Woggle of Witches
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever 
Arthur's Halloween 

 Activities:
Group Halloween story
Spider web
Rhyming web
H detectives
Spook-e-Doo
Lima bean math
Halloween memory

Ariann's Project: Pumpkin patch prints and handprint ghosts (M, T), Funnybones and skeletons (W), tissue paper pumpkins (Th)

Julie's Project: Patters/counting (M, T, W)
AJ's Project: Trick-or-Treat bag decorating (M,T, W)