March 28-April 1st

This week we will be wrapping up March and heading into April. 

 We are still on the letter O and we will start the week with Oscar the Grouch. It's a familiar character that starts with O and is green. It also gives us a chance to see grouchy and talk about that emotion. 

We will talk about outer space. We have already been reading the book "There's No Place Like Outer Space" featuring the Cat in the Hat. 

We will also learn about office workers for another job that people in our community do and doing our review. On Friday, we will begin our Earth Day Celebration. It's more like "Earth Month". I decided to do this for many reasons, but one is that Earth Day is also on Good Friday, which will be our Easter celebration and egg hunt here at daycare. We will have plenty to talk about throughout the month about going green, planting trees, composting, recycling, and so forth. 

March 21-25

This is another eventful week. We are saying goodbye to Chloe and Deeken who have come here for a long time. We will miss them and wish them well in their new town. 

We have been learning about the letter O. We also are learning about owls, oranges, opticians, and outdoors. If you ever get a chance to see the birds of prey at the Kalamazoo Nature Center, it is wonderful to see the owls and some other cool birds up close.We are also working on a really cook "O" book that we are making all by ourselves!

March 14-18

This was a busy and exciting week! We learned about Noah and his ark. We learned about rainbows and all the colors and the symbol of promise it is. This is cool because there is a rainbow in the story of Noah, but they are also associated with St. Patrick's Day which is this week. Everyone wore green, which we are also learning about, just in time for Spring and green grass and leaves (hopefully soon). We also celebrated Braden's 5th birthday. What a lot of fun!

March 7-11

On the 7th, we talked about the number 7. We read Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, talked about the 7 days in the week. We love to sing the days of the week song-see the link below for an example. We counted things outside and around the house up to 7. 

We also talked about the opposites of noisy and quiet. We learned about nutrition and eating balanced meals of healthy food from all the food groups. We also investigated rectangles and found that rectangles can be fun to eat when they're graham crackers! We read many, many books on these subjects. We spend some time outdoors being still and quiet like a little boy in his garden and talked about what we notice when we are quiet. 

Seven Days in a Week Song 

Week of 2/ 28-3/4

I sure am glad February is over and the first day of spring is this month! 

We started this week reviewing much of what we have been learning about. 

We learned about the letter N, then took a look at nests (science), celebrated National Noodle Day and read a book about how noodles were created in China, and of course ate lots of noodles this week! We also learned about nurses and the important job they do for our community. We read lots of cool books about all of our subjects this week. The snow melted long enough to find our nest we made last fall, but it was too muddy on the ground for the kids to want and sit in it. We looked up in the trees for nests. This is the perfect time of year because the leaves are still off, so take a look at all the nests you can find. We also learned that many nests are not in trees and about the eggs and baby birds that the nests keep safe. 

Week of February 21-26

We are learning about mice. I like to teach the children about animals that we can find in our geographic area as much as possible. From an early childhood education class on nature I learned how important it is for children to learn about their immediate environment before expanding to the rain forests and deserts. We also learned about monsters. Are they real or imaginary? We talked about how they are in our imaginations and the great thing about our imagination is that we can change it any way we want! So if we are imagining a monster that is mean, we can turn it nice, or make it go away. We read some cute books about monsters too! Also, the Sesame Street monsters are really nice and teach us lots of neat stuff, but of course, they are just imaginary too. 

We talked about meat in the food groups and looked at the food pyramid.

Week of February 14-18

Today is an awesome week! Our opposites are about love and hate. We talked about foods we love and foods we hate. 

Branden loves spaghetti at home, but hates to eat bugs! 

Deeken loves pizza and corn, but hates bugs too!

Braden loves beans, grapes, chicken and hates mushrooms! 

I hoped to get the concept of how love and hate are opposite with the food the children can relate too. We then discussed how God wants us to love and never hate each other. 

We learned about the letter M and the job of mayor, plus about musicians. 

Check out some links of what we learned about his week:

Letter M Song

Sesame Street: M is for Mouth Music