So proud of my little angles. We do fire drills monthly and tornado drills April – October and they all do so amazing. I don’t tell them when, or that I’m going to set off the alarm, but the older kids that have been here for awhile know exactly what to do. They don’t question why (until after usually) they just follow our exit plan. Here’s a picture of them lining up after our drill and protecting their “noodles” (heads) in the basement.
Today was the day! We let our cute little critters go. The kiddos are convinced they flew off to find their mama and build a nice cozy home on a leaf 🙂 they loved getting to touch them before they flapped their beautiful wings and fluttered into the sky. Here are a couple pictures from our release.
Our butterflies have exited their little cacoons and the kiddos couldn’t be more excited! They watched them for more than 30 minutes yesterday fludder around the habitat. They also helped feed them strawberries and apples 🙂 the giggles while they observed them was priceless.
I hope all my current and past daycare mama’s have a beautiful and blessed mothers day! I truly know how amazing you all are just by knowing all of your little ones. You’ve created and raised amazing beautiful children. I hope your showered with lots of love this mother’s day and always.
We received our caterpillars over a week ago now and the kids have had a great time watching them eat the food and grow bigger and bigger! The kids were so excited when they came in this week to see the caterpillars had become Chrysalides (cocoons). We’ve placed the chrysalides into the butterfly habitat and now the next step is for them to work their magic and turn into beautiful butterflies, which usually takes 7-10 days. The kiddos have been watching them and then recording their findings in their butterfly notebook. They are learning how to observe and record what they see/think by drawing pictures and some are even writing some words with help. I can’t wait to see their little faces when we have butterflies!
Happy May!!!
Stephy’s Angels will be looking for new friends beginning September 2015! I will be looking for fun, loving, easy-going families who would like a second home-like environment for their child/ren. Please look through stephysangels.me and let me know if you have any questions! It’s never too early to find the perfect fit childcare program for your family!
-Full time openings may be available depending on age of child and schedule. When emailing me please include the hours and days you would need, and your child’s age.
– playschool/preschool openings will be available (9:15-3:15pm operating on public school schedule) 2, 3 or 4 days a week. Perfect for stay/work at home mama’s/daddy’s that need a few days to themselves, or anyone who is able to have someone drop off and pick up at the times listed. (these spots are limited!)
Please feel free to pass this information on 🙂 Thank you!!!
Following with our Dr Seuss fun this week, today was Wacky Wednesday. Have you ever read that book? The kids LOVE picking out all the wacky things on the pages. Before I introduced the book I had the kiddos search all around the house for things that looked wacky. They found a shoe on the wall, socks in the tissue box, socks hanging from our plant and mirror, bananas in a water pitcher, and “donkey tails” on a frames throughout the house. They (kids) came dressed all wacky to go with our theme for the day, and let me tell you…..they were rockin’ those clothes! I wish the picture below showed more of their outfits, because they were awesome! This morning was SOOO much fun!
Time for a wacky snacky
Coloring UNDER the table is wacky!
Eating with sticks (coffee stir sticks) and straws IS wacky!
This morning was brought to you by red plastic cups! I set these out for the kids to see what they would come up with. They started by stacking towers, knocking them down with their hands, then their feet, then reinforcements were brought in and they started using monster trucks and dump trucks. That lasted awhile. I showed them how they could build a pyramid type tower with them and they thought that was really neat! We seen how tall we could get it, and then one of the little ones would come and knock it down 🙂 At first the older ones were NOT impressed but then started to think it was funny. That continued on for about 20 minutes. They all eventually grabbed a stack of cups for themselves and started creating, imagining and building things on their own. I observed an older child sitting on the couch, stacking the cups together and counting each one as she did. Then the “baby” sat next to her and started saying “one, two, free, two, free, one”. Some of them would make two or three stacks and compare the height of them, others would chuck the cups across the room and run after them as they rolled on the wooden floor 😉 Needless to say these cups provided us LOTS of fun this morning! I love when I find an activity that grabs their attention for more than an hour! Oh I almost forgot, the kids all came back together and decided to make a pretend lemonade stand. They served up some delicious strawberry lemonade to all of us 😉 What a great child-led free play LEARNING morning.
Time has gotten away from me! It’s been far too long since I posted a blog update. This will be a short one but I wanted to share our sensory fun this morning. The kids loved the magenta tinted bubble water. It was equipped with measuring cups, spoons, wire whisks and heart sponges which led to almost an hour of water fun 🙂
Perfect day for a picnic lunch and backyard camping.
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