May Newsletter

Dear Families,

This month is full of loads of fun holidays and events that call for celebrations! Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Memorial Day are just a few. Stay posted for family projects and wonderful celebratory events, like our Muffins for Mom Morning! Our toddlers will have fun exploring the month of May with lots of crafts, songs, stories, activities, and new sensory/science adventures.  We will also be having Parent/Teacher Conferences this month, and sign-up sheets will be available before hand. Enjoy your month of May!                                

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo is a wonderful Mexican holiday that will be this coming Sunday, May 5th. The children will be doing lots to help prepare for our own little Fiesta Friday! This will be our class Cinco de Mayo Party. Please feel free to join us (from 10-11) and/or send in something related to the holiday that your child can share with the class. This can be anything from decorations and snacks (cheese and crackers, peppers, fruit salad, etc), to an outfit, picture, or stuffed animal that is related to Cinco de Mayo or Mexico.


Song of the Week:


Five Little Tortillas
Five tortillas, cooking in a pan.
One jumped out and ran, ran, ran!
Four tortillas, brown on each side.
One fell out and ran to hide.
Three tortillas, flat and round.
One ran away without a wound.
Two tortillas, not a lot.
One ran away--it was too hot!
One tortilla, looking pretty neat,
Until it heard the words "Let's  eat!"

Shape of the week: Oval

Color of the week: Yellow

Family Project: Poncho Project

This Past Week...

Our Spring Trees: art sand, glitter, and glue

Rock "Marble" Painting:

The kids collected rocks, and then...
..scooped them out of blue and green paint (for the colors of our Earth)
..and then they had to SHAKE it as hard as possible, their favorite part!

They loved seeing their messy end product!

We Planted Onions in the garden boxes on the small playground...

This is our class globe

The children colored the rice on their own and then as a whole group put on lots of glue and spread out all of the rice.

How to color rice:

Materials: rice, rubbing alcohol, food coloring, container

1. Place the rice into a container
2. Mix in some rubbing alcohol (you want it to be wet enough so that it will mix with the food coloring, but not too wet)
3. Add food coloring (a couple of drops--more or less depending on amount of rice)
4. Stir and place on a paper plate or towel to dry.

Once dry, your children would love to play with it. You can see it here in our sensory bin!

Earth Day: At Home Activities

There are so many things you could do with your children to help them understand how to keep our environment clean and safe! You can click on the picture below to take you to a great list of fantastic activities, crafts, and snacks for you and your children to do together! 

(You may have to pick and choose what is age appropriate, but you can always modify things so that you can all join in the fun!)

Here is another great source for Earth Day activities that includes more craft and activity ideas! 

(Again, you may have to pick and choose or modify for it to be age appropriate)

Earth Week!

This week we will be taking advantage of two amazing days, Earth Day and Arbors Day. The toddlers will be focusing on understanding what it means to keep our earth looking beautiful! We will be making globes, planting flowers, and crafting with parts of trees that we can find.

Song of the Week:

Litter Bugs "Frere Jacques"
We're not litterbugs
We're not litterbugs,
No siree, no siree!
We pick up our trash,
We pick up our trash,
Yes siree, yes siree!

Shape of the week: Diamond

Color of the week: Purple
Family Project: Make a family tree with your toddlers

This Past Week... the Art Show!

Thank you to everyone that came out to the art show this past Wednesday! There were quite a few parents that showed up, and every child was more than excited to show off all of their hard work! For those that want to take a peak at what was there, here are some pictures...

Room 1 

Infants (6 weeks-15 months)

Rooms 3A and 3B 

Wobblers (15 months-2 years) and Toddlers (2 - 2.9 years)

Room 2

Preschool (3-4 years)

Room 4 

Preschool (3-4 years)

Rooms 5

Preschool (4-5 years)

Bugs and Flowers

First of all, I'd like to again invite all of our families to our First Annual Art Show! It is this Wednesday, April 17th, from 6-8 pm. Please join us for a chance to see all of your children's hard work and beautiful art pieces! They are very proud of what they have down so far, and would love to show you their great art work!

This week we will continue our exploration through spring by taking a peak at bugs and flowers. There will be a combination of different art activities, including "worm painting" (cooked spaghetti and paint), and maybe even a little toddler flower planting.

Song for the week:

Insect Song  ("The Wheels on the Bus")

The firefly at night goes blink blink blink

Blink blink blink blink blink blink

The firefly at night goes blink blink blink

All around the town

The bees in the flowers go buzz buzz buzz....

The ants in the grass go march march march...

The crickets in the leaves go chirp chirp chirp...

The caterpillar in the field goes creep creep creep....

Shape of the week: square

Color of the week: green
Family Project: Art Show! April 17th (6-8 pm)

Week 1 *(subject to change)*

	Breakfast	Lunch	Afternoon Snack
Monday	Cereal Juice Milk	Mac & Cheese Peaches Peas Milk	Animal Crackers Juice
Tuesday	Waffles Fruit Salad Milk	Eggs Potato Puffs Pears Bread Milk	Oyster Crackers Juice
Wednesday	Oatmeal Bananas Milk	Chicken Sandwich Apple Sauce Corn Milk	Graham Crackers Juice
Thursday	Croissant Mandarin Oranges Milk	Rotini w/ Meat Sauce Salad Milk	Crackers Juice
Friday	Cereal Juice Milk	Ham & Cheese Sandwich Carrots Pineapple Milk	Cookies Milk