We are so excited to have just begun a brand new school year. Kiddos that have been with us for three days all the way to 3 years are digging deep into learning and getting their hands messy, their brains working, and their bodies moving! The teachers are having a great time watching their kids grow and learn through play! We follow age-specific curriculum provided by Frog Street Press. This curriculum takes us through several different themes helping the children learn about their family, animals, being a big helper, and so much more! Each theme focuses on four developmental domains: Language, cognitive, social and emotional, and physical. Each domain has sub parts that allow the teachers and children to explore and successfully grow in these areas. Although we are just getting started, the development, growth, and excitement is noticeable!
Our curriculum begins with our littlest friends at just 6 weeks. Here, you can see our friend working on her physical development. A key concept for this week is working on pushing up and practicing rolling over. We are nailing this skill!!
Language developmental can happen through talking, singing, babbling, reading, etc... Our Toddler 3 class is working hard on this developmental domain as they read books and then use pictures from the book to talk about what they just read.
WWOW!! The Wonderful Word of the Week is: SOCIABLE! This class talked about the definition of sociable and where we can be sociable. Sociable means being friendly in public and we can do that anywhere! At school, at homes, at a party, at the park, anywhere!! The WWOW is an important part of our language development!
We are typically learning many skills at one time and just don't know it! While this Infant one teacher reads the touch and feel book to help the baby develop language skills, the baby is also able to explore cognitive learning through sensory as she touches the lamb's wool and the bird's feathers!
There are so many ways to learn! This Preschool two teacher is introducing small groups to her class. They are learning about shapes and colors. We can see our friends putting the correct color peg on the matching colored shape.
Each Frog Street theme comes with a set of books to read that go along with the theme being taught. This week, the book provided was Little Red. The book tells a story about a girl taking a delivery to her grandmother and meets a very curious and troublesome wolf along the way. The kids love acting out books after reading them!
Learning through art and sensory play is so much fun. These friends are able to make and create whatever their imaginations come up with! Look at those beautiful masterpieces!
Sometimes when we learn so much our brains feel overloaded so we have to take a break! The best way to refresh our brains and get those juices flowing again is with a dance party!! We love to dance and sing and wiggle and jiggle!
Whoever said learning wasn't fun is crazy!! Learning through play is the best way! These kiddos got to make fall scented play dough. They carefully followed the recipe and got to small the apple cider scent. It smelled so yummy but they were very careful to not eat it! The kids made some cool shapes and got to use their imaginations!
When the weather is too hot, cold, rainy, or gross we can't go outside. BUMMER! But that doesn't stop us from having fun! Gross motor activities are essential to learning and growing. The heat did not stop our fun this week because our creative and very adaptable teachers were able to quickly come up with this AWESOME hallway obstacle course! the kids got to run, jump, spin, crawl, and slither their way through to the end!
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