A few pictures from Rainbow Club Visit

RAINBOW CLUB in the house.....

How great it was to have everyone here! We started off with breakfast together. Then we read about APPLES, discussed APPLES, colored APPLES, and then ate APPLES. Ask your little one which apple they liked best! I can promise it wasn't the Granny Smith LOL. We tried....Red Delicious, Yellow, and Granny Smith. For morning snack we had every one's favorite.....yogurt with cheerios!! Then we headed outside to play in the sand. I can tell they've missed it. They reminded me of Santa's little elves......busy busy. We finished up our morning by having a PICNIC outside. I let the older kids take their sack lunches and eat anywhere they wanted. This was a REAL treat as we usually would sit all together. They tended to stay together anyway......SO SWEET! I will send the pictures from today in a separate email. I'm not sure how to attach all of them to the blog?? We had a fantastic day and enjoyed seeing each other very much! Please keep in touch.......love to all......A

First Aid Kit - Protective Eyewear

Recently Bright From the Start has changed it's regulations. One of the changes requires all childcare providers to have a face mask and protective eye wear on hand at all times! The goggles do not fit in my first aid kit so they are hanging up on the outside of my bag. This morning Addison fell and scraped her knee so.......I got my kit to clean it up, etc... And they all wanted me to put on the goggles so I wouldn't get the blood in my eye......LOL!! So I did and they just loved it. Of course there wasn't ANY blood at all just a small scrape

Our Hands Can.... "Wall"

This wall is where you can check out what your child is doing on a weekly basis! I plan on displaying artwork, class work, pictures I've taken, and even things your child brings in from home! Look for your childs "color" clothespin to locate thier work quickly. Feel free to send artwork or any pictures you take of them and your family doing activities, trips, etc..

New Classroom!

I am almost complete with classroom renovation!!! Please check it out the next time you are in the classroom. We have started back to school and have just completed our first Weekly Reader. Make sure to read it with your child when it comes home.

USDA - Child and Adult Care Food Program

We had a visit today from Quality Care for Children. They monitor my participation in this program for the USDA. With federal funding being questioned they are starting to come down really hard on everyone - everywhere! Because of this I am now required to start keeping a In/Out Sheet with times EVERYDAY. So starting Monday there will be a sheet on the counter for the time and your signature (iniatials NOT ALLOWED). For those of you that drop off upstairs in the mornings I will write in your times and you will need to sign that as well as for pick-up. Please help me keep this maintained. I could loose the opportunity to be apart of this program and it is a big help to me in paying for high quality foods :-). Every little bit helps right!! Also, they will be making household contacts sometime in the next couple of weeks. If your child was not here today please make a mental note because they are going to ask if your child was in attendance on May 21, 2010. The reason they are calling is because I typically have 6-8 kids here and today I only had 5. I know some of you are part time BUT in order to be paid on the days that your child is here I've notated your days as "Days/Times Vary".....the easiet thing to say to them is....my schedule varies but they are typically there for all meals when they are at Angie's. Another thing that looked bad was the fact that they are comparing this week against the week of Spring Break which is when I had Caden and Madi here as well! Eventhough I do not charge for my family members I am allowed to claim meals on them as long as I have the proper paper work on file which I do......... Also, I am suppose to have my menu plan posted in the classroom which I keep on the REF.......of course I just took it down yesterday to make some changes. Sometimes it seems like too much of a hassle to be involved but bottom line it is for good healthy nutrition for our children......so I'll get my act together ha ha and do better. If you have any questions and/or concerns just ask.........THANKS EVERYONE ......have a great weekend.

P.S. They given me some stuff to send home and I'll be doing that sometime next week so be on the look-out and please always ask if you have any questions.

The Very Hungry Catepillar by Eric Carle

We are reading books by Eric Carle this month as well as our favorite book by him called......The Very Hungry Catepillar. The first spring I was open I bought this book along with a CD where Eric Carle (the author) read the book aloud to the class. I purchased (8) small books so the children could follow along with him and I turned the pages of the large book. This is a great way to give them another skill to help them READ. If you have this book at home read it with your child tonight.......THEY ABSOLUTELY love it as much today as they did last year. Take a look at the catepillars they made in class......they are hanging everywhere!!!

Perfect Plants

We started our new reader today! This morning started out a bit cloudy but soon the sun broke through......and we took our class outside. It was really a wonderful feeling to be teaching outside under the trees about things that grow!!! How appropriate....and the kids loved the change of scenery! As you are working outside or just stopping somewhere to look at flowers/plants ask them to point out things they know.....for example: stem, roots (in the dirt), flower, leaf.

Weekly Reader: PERFECT PLANTS

 

Mother's Day Flowers

I hope everyone had a wonderful mothers day! A couple of you asked about the flowers that the children made.......they painted coffee filters and then we put them together with a dot of hot glue so we could form them. I didn't haven't any tissue paper so I thought coffee filters might work well. My thought was to build them and then turn them upside down and dip into food coloring.....hoping the coloring would seep up into the flower. Well then I had NO food coloring so I thought maybe the kids could paint them with water colors........they had so much fun doing it this way! I was running out of time to dry them so I then threw them in the DRYER.........ha ha it worked really well and I think the flowers turned out so unique becuase of each child's painting style! Take a look at the picture and see how different they all were......I thought the bouquet was beautiful.