Princess Time!! Ariel Comes To Visit!

Y'all.... happy Wednesday! Today has been a magical day of fun, creativity, and meeting ARIEL! Ariel came all the way from the deep ocean to share her magic with all of our kiddos! We had so much fun bringing in one of our favorite special guests. This special guest has come here as so many different princesses and we are so grateful for her. Today, she was Ariel and these kiddos absolutely ate it up. Ariel came into our older kiddos rooms to do a craft with them. They worked very hard on putting pieces of tissue paper on fish and making them beautiful! Ariel sat with them and helped them place the pieces onto their fish! After doing some crafts with Ariel, she went around to all of the classes to surprise the littles. We were so happy that even the little kiddos LOVED getting to see her! Some kiddos weren't so sure about getting up close and personal, but they enjoyed observing her from a distance! We are just loving all of these special guests, and we are so lucky that we get to do this for our wonderful kiddos!

Ariel with the big kiddos!

This little loved making his fish craft!

 Preschool Three LOVED Ariel!

Dancing with Ariel!

 Our infants had so much fun just staring at Ariel!

 Even our smallest of friends had a blast!

 Sweet girl smiling with a princess!

 "ummmmmm, I'm not so sure about you"

Oh my... how cute is this!?

Best friends already!

This toddler is getting to know Ariel!

The sweetest y'all.

Group picture!! We love you Ariel! Thanks for coming to see us!

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Mother Goose!

Well y'all, it's that time of year again where one of our most favorite visitors comes to see us. We absolutely adore Mother Goose! She comes with lots of fun and exciting props, songs, books, and activities for all of our kiddos to engage in. Mother Goose really brings out the magic of literacy, and gets these kiddos belly laughing like no other. We had quite a few teachers that were just captivated by her as well, and just could not contain their joy and laughter. One of the best parts about summer at The Academy is all of the fun special guests that we get to visit with, and Mother Goose is one of those visitors that we will book over and over again because she is continuously bringing joy to our precious kiddos. She put on such a fun interactive show for the kids to teach them about the ocean, who lives there, what they do, and how we can protect the sea! The kids got to sing and learn about whales, dolphins, crabs, penguins, lobsters, turtles, and so much more! Our friends loved getting to dive into this learning experience and help Mother Goose with her show along the way. Our friends got to count sea creatures, hear a story about two funny pelicans, and some special volunteers got to help put on a puppet show at the end! This was a really fun and interactive way to learn about sea creatures and how to protect our ocean. I've gotta say too, the kiddos that went to volunteer with Mother Goose.....THE cutest ever! We will never get bored of Mother Goose and we are so incredibly grateful to her for always wanting to come and love on our kiddos and teach them new songs, new stories, and get them up and moving and excited to learn!

Mother Goose introduces herself!

 Engaging with her "little" crowd!

 These friends....eyes locked on Mother Goose!

 She does such a fantastic job at captivating her audience!

The sweetest of volunteers!

This volunteer showing you his octopus puppet!

 Singing songs about the ocean!

Lets clap our hands and sing a song!

Even our younger friends sat amazed!

THANKS MOTHER GOOSE!

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Classroom and Teacher Feature!

We love when we get to do classroom features and really introduce you all to the phenomenal educators that we have. This week I really want to tell you about our Infant One teachers, Mrs. Sri, Ms. Mandy, and Mrs. Neven. These three are the most loyal, loving, caring, compassionate, and kind women, that are just absolutely perfect at making those moms and dads feel comfortable when dropping off their sweet babies. A lot of the time in our Infant One classroom, the babies are the first born for their parents, and it is often difficult for them to leave their precious babies to go back to work. Mrs. Sri, Ms. Mandy, and Mrs. Neven are so great at making moms and dads feel comfortable, and reassuring them that their child is in good hands and will be loved on all day long. These three teachers have been with us for a long time now, and are true gold! These ladies use the calmest voices when talking to their babies. They love to sing to them, rock them, and make them giggle! It is one of the greatest things to watch when these babies start off at 6 weeks old, then as their personalities start to develop, they start to get SO excited when they see their teachers faces upon arriving at school. We are so lucky to have these women be positive role models in our youngest kiddos lives. These sweet babies love being read to, which is something Ms. Mandy truly loves to do! Mrs. Sri loves introducing them to all types of different sensory activities that are developmentally appropriate for our babies, and Mrs. Neven loves singing to them! Our parents love these women just as much as we do, and we feel like the luckiest to have them as a part of our family!

 Sweet boy doing some light reading!

 This girl loves when Mrs. Neven sings to her! 

 Sensory bottles! 

 These littles really love looking at books with their girl!

 Ms. Mandy reading to the babies! They love Old MacDonald!

 When the book is just so funny...

 The look you get when Mrs. Neven sings Five Little Monkey's!

 Touch and Feel reading with our Mandy!

 Everyone's favorite book!

 More reactions to the hilarious Mrs. Neven!

 And of course, gotta use the music shaker's while she sings!

We also can't resist this sweet sleeping boy, who fell asleep during one of the books :)

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Mr. Big Time Healthy

What a summer we are having here at the Academy of Forrest Crossing! We have had so many fun special guests come visit already, but today's guest was one of the most fun, exciting, interactive, and energetic guests we've ever had! Today we had Mr. Big Time Healthy come to see us and boy were we all in for a treat with this one. Mr. Big Time Healthy came wearing green shoes, shorts, shirt, and a pretty sweet yellow cape. He brought blow up guitars, music, and stickers for the kids to have! He came to teach the kiddos about being eating healthy and just being healthy in general, but he had such a fun way of doing so. He had his own songs that he had made up and he had the kiddos singing them word for word before his time was over! Mr. Big Time Healthy was so great at interacting and making sure the children were having the best time. Being healthy is so incredibly important, and the easiest way to do so is to make sure you start young! We need good role models such as Mr. BTH because he is the expert at instilling in younger kiddos that being healthy IS fun and cool! We were super lucky that we got to hang out with him this morning and were so thankful for all of his knowledge that he shared with our sweet little friends! He even had our staff up on stage playing air guitar with him! The kiddos loved seeing their teachers up there just rocking out to songs about eating your vegetables and washing your hands! We had a ton of fun this morning and we can't wait to have him back! Check out these fun pictures that show the pure joy and happiness that Mr. Big Time Healthy brought to these kiddos faces! Until next time!

High fives for Mr. Big Time Healthy!

These kiddos LOVED following along!

 Jumping for joy because we love being healthy!

Time to shout, "BIG TIME HEALTHY!"

He had these kiddos so energetic and excited!

Take down low y'all!

Even our teachers were rockin' out! Thank you Mr. Big Time Healthy! We loved you!

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