M U D D A Y 2020!

To be honest, the thought of 100 kiddos playing around in wet slimy mud can be pretty terrifying, but mud day at AoFC is a tradition that these children (and us!) love so much! This year we decided to go a bit bigger then we have in the past. We bought 10 giant bags of soil and a big baby pool. We typically just use little buckets so seeing the baby pool in action was just so awesome. So, we dumped all of the soil into buckets and the baby pool, filled them up with water to make the soil really muddy, and the kiddos just went at it! We had shovels, buckets, cars, hidden toys and a whole bunch of other fun supplies to really get the kiddos engaged in the activity! Playing in the really encourages kids to step outside of their comfort zone and explore outside. They are challenging themselves by expanding their imaginations and experiences by exploring nature and becoming more adventurous. Mud stimulates artistic expression! We do have some little ones who choose to opt out each year which...we can't really blame them, but for the most part SO many of our kiddos truly just love playing in the mud and getting super dirty! Activities such as this truly are the definition of just letting kids be kids. They go out and use their imagination that they are making a chocolate pie or digging for dinosaur fossils! We love walking around and hearing what they are talking about and how they are using different senses while playing. The baby pool was like one giant sensory bin! The kids really had so much fun this mud day, and we cannot wait to go even bigger next year!! What should we add to mud day next year? We are already brainstorming and coming up with new ways to enhance the fun! Enjoy these awesome pictures of your sweet littles having the time of their life while playing in some super wet and messy mud! 

 Diggin'!

 So...what now?

 Cutest little muddy Vols fan :)

 Teamwork!

 Jumping in the puddles!!

 Not so sure!?

 Exploring the muddy madness

 Cutest even with mud all over her :)

 Did someone say mud fight!?

 Pure messy joy!

 Just look at his sweet smile :)

 Mud....everywhere!

Sweet girl making some mud pies!

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Thank you to everyone for the continued support through all of this trying time. We are so grateful to each and every one of you. We love you!

-Your AoFC family and friends

Carnival Day 2020

The month of May is passing by before our eyes and it is so exciting to know that summer at AoFC is upon us! With all of the craziness that has been going on in the past nine weeks, we decided that our amazing littles truly needed an experience that would leave them speechless. We had one of our educators (Mr. Jacob) come up with the idea of putting on a school Carnival and through the planning of fun details, thus came our first ever Carnival Day! All of us wanted this to be a truly grand production from the delicious treats, to the planned out carnival games, to the clown noses each teacher wore this turned out to be the best day ever. When parents arrived to drop-off their child they drove under huge red & white striped banners, educators with red noses, a giant Carnival sign, red & white balloons, and of course the bounce house! The sun was shining and the perfect amount of wind was blowing to make this day so beautiful. We had each classroom design their very own carnival game for each child to easily play and these turned out amazing. We had specialty snacks such as our very own snow cones and some yummy popcorn in cute little containers. We decorated the inside of the school to match the outside and had a giant table filled with toys that you would win! Of course we handed out "toy tickets" to each of our kiddos so that everyone won a fun little toy :) The bounce house was per usual a huge hit and the kiddos had so much fun taking turns playing fun games such as matching the ducks, skee ball, tic-tac-toe, bowling, tattoos, toilet toss and so many more. Outside was Mrs. Katherine with her red nose and all making the best snow cones and popping popcorn from our old school popcorn machine. The kiddos loved getting tattoos and taking their hard earned tickets to pick out their toys! These sweet littles were talking about Carnival Day all week long and I am certain they went home to continue talking all about it! This day was so much fun and we have absolutely added this to our list of annual events. Carnival Day 2020, you were one for the books! Enjoy these super magical pictures of pure fun and excitement! 

We cannot wait to make this EVEN better next year! Thank you to all of our educators for working so incredibly hard to make this day the most fun for all of their kiddos! We love you all and we hope to bring in all of our parents to enjoy our next Carnival Day :)