Wacky Water Week!!!

It's the last week of our Summer Program and also one of our FAVORITE weeks!  Who doesn't love to play in the water, especially when it's so hot outside?!  We even used water for our science experiment to see which objects would absorb the water and which ones would not.  For an art activity, the children decorated a coffee filter with markers and then wet the filter to see the colors run together.  They looked very pretty hanging in the window!

 Our cooking project this week was to make a Beach in a Cup.  The children made the water from pudding, crumbled Nilla Wafers for sand and then added some goldfish!

 We've made it to the end of the alphabet, just it time!  The classrooms decided to make their letters into different objects for the letter "Z".

 We celebrated the end of our Summer Program on Friday with a Wacky Water Play Day!  The children had so much fun playing in the sprinkler on our playground!

We LOVE our Pets!

A lot of us have furry friends at home that are absolutely a part of our family!  With that being said, it's so important for us to take the time to share about our sweet pets!  We also discussed why not all animals make good pets for us to have in our house.  Several classrooms made graphs showing their favorite pet or which pets they had at home.  Mrs. Lauren even brought her dog to school one day to show us all of his neat tricks!  He was so impressive and we so enjoyed having him as a special visitor. 

 The children also turned their hand prints into pets, did art work with dog bone treats, and participated in a matching activity of putting the dogs into their houses.

 Our letter of the week was y so some classrooms did "Y is for Yarn" while others made their Y a collage of Yellow objects!

What a fun week to talk about our pets, who we love so much!

Let's Take a Vacation!

Summer is almost over so let's take a vacation!  This week, the children pretended to take a trip to various places. First, we had to pack our suitcases!  Some classrooms cut pictures out of magazines while others glued on pre-cut items that may be in their suitcase on a trip.

Pre-K then turned this activity into a math lesson with talking about 8+2=10!

The one year olds packed 10 triangles in their suitcase to practice the letter and shape of the week.

We were then ready to travel the world!  For our cooking project this week, we made Crepes like we might could taste in France.  We learned about the different animals you might see in Africa if you went on a safari!  One classroom made their own lions!

 

 In Italy, the children made puppets and enjoyed making them dance! 

 Even in the midst of all our traveling, we still took time to learn about the letter "X"!

X is for X-Ray!

Happy Travels!

It's a Circus!

It's always a Circus around here but this week it's in full force!  The children learned about the different animals in the circus and I think the monkeys might have been their favorite!  One classroom did a really cute monkey activity that got all the children involved!

We also made clown masks so that we could pretend to be clowns!  Some children even dressed up as clowns!

Such a cute clown!

The Older 1's did some fun activities in their classroom that you might see at the circus.

Hand painting!

Our letter of the week is W so we made "W is for Watermelon".  The children worked really hard gluing down each little seed.  

We All Scream for Ice Cream!

Who doesn't love ice cream?!  We have found another way to beat the heat by enjoying some delicious ice cream!  The children did some cute art activities this week and even made a pretend ice cream sundae!   

We also made "Ice Cream in a Bag".  The children had to shake it really hard to make the ice cream but they did a really good job!  It is such a neat activity to see a few ingredients mix together to become one of our favorite treats.

One of the classrooms finished the week up with an Ice Cream Sundae party!  After their hard work making pretend ice cream sundaes, it was time to enjoy the real thing!

This Sunday is National Ice Cream Day so be sure to enjoy some yourself!

It's Time for a Luau!

All this hot weather has us thinking about somewhere tropical!  Since we can't take a trip there together, we will have to bring it all to us!  We have spent the week getting ready for our Luau on Friday!  The children made their own hula skirts to dance in to the Hawaiian music.  We had so much fun learning about volcanoes and even watching our own version of a volcano erupt!

The 3 year olds tasted different tropical fruits!

It's finally Friday and we have had some fun!  We enjoyed pretending to have a Luau and some classes even had a Water Play Day!

Hopefully you are having a fun summer and finding ways to stay cool too!

3 Cheers for the Red, White, & Blue

Hip, Hip, Hooray!  We love the USA!  This was a short week but we sure did pack a lot of fun into it!  The children did so many fun art projects with flags and fireworks.

They also made musical instruments, streamers, and flags to use in our 4th of July Parade!  The children had so much fun marching up and down the hall to patriotic music on Wednesday!

For our cooking project, we made an All-American Treat- APPLE PIE!! Yum!  The children each made their own mini apple pie to enjoy for snack time.

We hope you have a very Happy 4th of July and enjoy time with your family and friends!