Tuesday July 31, 2012
Hello and happy Tuesday toddler families!
What better way to start off your day then having a
delicious breakfast of cereal and bananas with all your friends. Claire, Mason,
Brooklyn and Carter were filled with smiles as they sat in the lunch room with
their friends from all the other classes, waiting for the rest of their class
to join. Soon, Kate, Niall and Marshall arrived ready for some fun as they all
headed outside for some fresh air. We are sad to say that today is Kate’s last
day here at CHA, as her family and she are moving to Raleigh HillsL. We are so sad to see
her go but know she will stop by for visits here and there. Make sure to give a
nice “goodbye” when you pick up your little ones.
With the cooler air blowing in their faces, all the little
ones beamed with smiles as they enjoyed playing and working together outside.
Niall, Claire and Brooklyn spent most of their time outside looking at the big
trees in the far left corner of the play yard. Mason from the preschool class
told them all about the “beetles” he found crawling up the tree, and the three
of them had to investigate. The “beetles” ended up being little ants, and all
three of them were wide eyed as they watched the MILLIONS of them crawled all
over. The babbles, points and laughs, they let their teachers know how much fun
they were having and how interested they were. Kate was our social butterfly
today and just loved going around smiling and waving to everyone. When she saw
Ms. Kelly from the older toddler class, Kate ran up and gave her a BIG hug
around the legs. We are happy to see all the wonderful friendships Kate has
made here with not only classmates, but teachers too.
Marshall, like
always, was our class explorer and walked ALL over the playground,
investigating EVERY inch of it. When Marshall came across the fire truck push
car, he noticed all the bark chips someone had put on the seat and gently
brushed them all off before sitting down and letting his imagination go wild as
he turned the wheel and babbled. Mason was very happy to be outside with his
sister, Jane and was all smiles as he watched her and her friend Grace play on
the tricycles. When it was time for Jane to head inside for a potty break,
Mason walked over to the door, sat down and waited for her to come back. Once
Jane returned, Mason beamed with a smile as he stood up and showed her he was
ready to play. It is so adorable to see such great bonds between siblings!
Carter was not in the mood to play with his siblings as he explored other toys
on the other side of the play yard. He appeared to be feeling a little risky as
he walked over to the big fish jungle gym and started climbing. Once up on just
the lowest level, Carter must have decided it was a little scarier then he
thought, and slowly lowered his body down. I am sure he will be able to climb
up to the top in no time!
Before we knew it, it was time to head inside for curriculum,
followed by diapers and milk. Today we looked at mystery boxes and the little
ones got to explore the GREEN box today. Niall was very anxious to take the top
off the box and made a very excited face as he did. Claire was next to Niall
and grabbed the top Niall dropped onto the floor and decided that was what she
wanted to observe. Kate’s attention went straight to the pictures on the side
of the box and pointed to all the many green things. At the picture of the
turtle, Kate pointed and said something that sounded like “frog.” Although the
wrong animal, great job relating the green to a frog! Carter let out a loud “AHHH”
as he grabbed the box from Karen’s hand and dumped everything onto the floor. He
must have been one hungry boy, for Carter grabbed the plastic pear and green
grapes off the floor and stuck them right into his mouth!
After talking about green, and all the fun green toys that
were inside the box, we were ready for our daily art project. Today we focused
on the sense of TASTING and we made a food collage. Mason and Marshall were
very excited to use markers to color their pictures and could not help but
color on their friends tooJ.
The two boys laughed and giggled together as the circled the table, putting
little marks on each of the papers. Brooklyn did a very good job with the
gluing and even helped her teachers with rubbing the glue stick on the back of
the food pictures. Her favorite part appeared to be flipping the pictures over
and gluing them to the paper as she HIT her hand hard on the top, making sure
they stuck!
We wrapped up the morning with a yummy lunch of Hamburgers, French
fries, and apple slices. With droopy eyes, the little ones headed down for a
nice, relaxing nap! We are looking forward to a great afternoon, spending time
outside and playing with all our friends.
** Please bring any shoe or Kleenex boxes you may have lying
around your house! We need them for a fun project we will be doing on FridayJ.
With Love,
Jaimie and Karen
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