Voted #1 Daycare 2007, 2008, 2009

Voted #2 Daycare/Preschool Albemarle Family

BABBLE

May 21, 2010

Upcoming Events

May 31 Closed for Memorial Day

June 4 CNO "Space Adventures"

June 9 Pre-k Graduation & Sundae Social

June 11 School Closed for Staff Training

June 14 Summer Session begins

June 18 Summer Solstice Goodnight Moon Party

Are you Green?  We are..

We do Project Green each Wednesday in every classroom.  Each month there is a Project Green planned activity.  Each Wednesday in the classroom the children do several activites such as create art, a cooking project, science project or recently adopt an endangered species.  Our goal is to make the children aware of the importance of saving the Earth. We also have our trash picked up by Time Disposal so we are doing our part in Going Green. 

We are in the process of adding some organic snacks to the menu and would love so input and ideas.

Kids Rummage Sale!

June 9^th-10^th

3:00pm - 6:30pm

Donate gently used KIDS items like toys, books, shoes, and clothes! Nothing will be priced over $5. Any leftover items will be donated to the Goodwill.

Please apply sunscreen in the morning before drop off!!  If you would like to send in a hat for your child to wear that is great be sure your child's name is on it.

Thank you for joining us the Annual Family Picnic.  The children and staff did a wonderful job preparing and putting on a great show!!  We are very excited about Mara Workman being our teacher of the year!

Speech Weekly with Ms. Stacy

Toddlers and young 2's

We began by reading a repetitive story while acting out the movements in the story.  We also fed our baby cookies that were in the shape of a circle, rectangle, heart, semicircle, triangle, and square. Next we focused on a sharing activity in which the children sat in a circle and requested a toy by using at least 3-4 words.  We read "Buddy Bear Goes on Vacation" and described all the places Buddy Bear went such as the desert, ocean, jungle, forest, etc. We worked on sign language throughout the entire session.

Older 2's

We began by reading "Polar Bear Polar Bear" and described several animals as well as actions.  We then read "Buddy Bear Goes on Vacation" and described places such as the forest, jungle, beach, desert, ocean, etc.  We also fed our talking baby shape cookies.  The children did a great job with the different shapes.  We also worked on a sharing activity in which the children requested a toy from their friends using at least 5-6 words. 

3's and 4's

  This week we focused primarily on phonemic awareness.  The children received a plate filled with shaving cream to practice their letters.  I made a sound and the children had to "write" the corresponding letter in the shaving cream.  Then we discussed words that began with specific sounds as well as came up with rhyming words.  Next we began blending sounds to make words.  We used the tabletop to make simple words and integrated several letters to make new words.  The children are going to have a great start to Kindergarten.  In the upcoming language groups I would like to continue the "Road to the Code" phonemic awareness program to continue sound blending. 

Have a great weekend. 

                                                                        Stacy Torrence M.S. CCC-SLP

Weekly Financial Reminders

Pay the 2010-2011 re-registration fee now to ensure your child a spot in our program.

Be sure to use your pass card upon entering the building. If you forget your card, please sign in at the front desk.

Monkey

The family picnic on Sunday was a blast! Thanks to all those who attended! In the Monkey room this week we will be using the sensory table daily and practicing the terms "inside" and "outside." We will be practicing sharing with our friends by rolling balls to each other in a big circle! We will also be doing some tumbling this week! We are always practicing colors and learning how to match things! We have a cooking project planned for Friday! We are hoping to get some time outside! For art we will be making corn, finger puppets, a portrait of the child's pet, cat art and lady bugs!

Giraffe

The Giraffes did a great job at Family Picnic. Thank you for your support this year! I hope to see everyone at the Family Picnic again next year! This week the children will be learning about farmers, what they do, the tools they use and what plants and animals they care for. Our Art activities this week will be related to our farm animal theme. This week the Giraffes welcome two new friends Hannah and Delcan! We want to wish Caden a very happy birthday! We are also very sad to say goodbye to our friend Caleb! We will miss you and hope you come back to visit us; best wishes in Germany!

Lion

This week the Lions are roaring about farm animals. We have been singing "Old MacDonald", "BINGO", and "Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow". Our art this week included dress the farmer, baby duck finger prints, and farm cats. We discussed who lives in a barn, what most farm animals eat, equipment on a farm and what the farmer's job is. Our letter of the week is "O".  We will be adding words to our wordlist and practicing writing in our journals. For Children's Humanities we continue to explore various ways of crating art; sidewalk chalk, water painting outside, play dough sculpting, and charcoal paintings. We had a fun week! We welcome Cedric to our class and wish Halei a Happy Birthday!

Elephant

We had a very successful Family Picnic over the weekend, and had so much fun performing for our families. We are continuing our theme of farming and learning about pets as well. We have talked about the jobs a farmer does on his farm and the jobs we do at home for our pets. Our letter of the week is O and we are getting very good at tracing it! We are also still practicing counting but in addition we are graphing, estimating and adding and subtracting objects. We are beginning to count very high no w! w!

Tigers

The family picnic was a big success. The Tigers enjoyed singing for their families, and eating all the good food! Thanks go to everyone! This week we are going to focus on our family pets. What pet do we have, their name, and how old they are! It is always fun to bring in a picture of our pet to share with the class. The Tigers have been working very hard on number and letter recognition. A big hit in the class is 1-2-3 Bingo and A-B-C Bingo, fun games for learning! For Project Green we are discussing keeping America beautiful, what part do we play and how it can be done. We continue our music each day - singing, dancing, and playing musical chairs. As you can see the Tigers are having a good time.

Zebra

We became farmers this week! On Monday, we read I'm Going to be a Farmer. This book had great photographs of a little boy helping his family on their farm. We learned about the many jobs a farmer has and we talked about which ones we'd like to be in charge of. Many of our activities this week were theme related. We played a fun circle time game where we guessed which farm food and farm animal was in our mystery box. This encouraged great listening and thinking skills. For art, we drew pictures of Old MacDonald (not to be confused with Ronald McDonald like some of our friends were!), painted barns, and drew pictures of our favorite f arm pet. We spent time writing about farm jobs and farm animals. Our corn is beginning to really take off and our herbs are starting to sprout. On Tuesday, some of us wanted to plant pear, apple, and orange seeds that we discovered during lunch. We planted these seeds and will look forward to watching out for sprouts! Dramatic play was encouraged with a plastic barn, animals, and tractor. The kids added Lincoln log fences and carpet squares for grass!

Chameleon

This week in the Chameleon class we have been talking about pets. We read the book Pet Show by Ezra Jack Keats. We talked about animals that can be pets and animals that cannot. We also played a pets beginning sound game, a cat whiskers counting game, and worked on ordinal numbers with a dog show game. On Friday we even bought in our stuffed animals to have our own pet show. We also analyzed pet food to see if we could guess what type of animal ate each kind of food. We worked on graphing skills by graphing the types of pets we have at home, and worked on estimation with dog bones. We went digging for bones in the sensory table and experimented the texture of bird seed. For art we painted with water colors, made cats, dogs and cat puppets and painted pictures of our own pets.