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Jan Newletter

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011


Theme for Jan

New years week
Hibernation week
Colors week
Teddy week

Here is a cute Activity. 

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,turn around.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,touch the ground.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,stand on your toes.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,touch your nose.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,look up in the sky.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,wink your eye.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,tie your shoe.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,count to two.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,go up the stairs.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,brush your hair.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,turn out the lights.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,say good night.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,wake up now.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ,take bow.

Here a craft to share with your children.

Frog Pond

Print out frog picture onto stock paper and cover with clear contact paper.Cut the frogs for your child. You will need two sturdy paper plates for your child. Cut a door in the top paper plate. Make it large enough for toddlers to reach into it and pull frog out. You will need a piece of blue felt pond cut it into a circle to pit the bottom paper plate. Give your child large paint brushes and red ,blue. and yelloww paint to make brown. As they paint the plate and mix the colors together they will end up with brown. Have the children cover the other paper plate with glue and stick the felt onto it. Put these aside to dry. After both pieces are dry staple the outside edge and cover the staples with dark colored duck tape.


What is a Daycare Provider?


Here a great definition of my job.

Child Care Pro-vi-der ( child'kar pro vid' er) n.
chef, baker, janitor, sock and shoe finder, coat buttoner,boot fitter, bottle washer, grocery shopper, diaper changer,protector, dish washer, nose wiper, vegetable pusher, floorsweeper, waiter, story teller, playground attendant, PE teacher,activity director, driver zoo keeper, inspector, aerobics instructiontutor entertainer, therapist, manager, derby instructor, performer, bookkeeper, manager, derby instructor,performer, bookkeeper, self-esteem builder, teacher helper, well wisher, nurse, traffic controller, noise controller, life saver, thinker, problem solver, engineer,designer, counselor, safety,instructor, arbitrator,creator, inventor, companion, musician. historian, technician, dietitian, athlete, beautician, fire marshall, analyst, artist, dentist, scientist, biologist, technologist, accountant, manicurist, receptionist, environmentalist, pharmacist, hygienist, speech therapist, reader, builder, informer, composer, supervisor, author, navigator, peacemaker, friend,,,,,,,,,

I hope you had a great christmas and are looking forward to a
GREAT NEW YEAR.

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LITTLE MINDS BIG IDEALS

Newsletter December                   2010

Themes 
Farm Animals
Fruit and vegetables
Indiana
Thankgiving

Here a cute song to sing Tune To 'YANKEE DOODLE'

The pilgrims came across the sea,
And never throught of you and me
And yet , it very strange the way
We think of them on Thanksgiving Day

We tell thier story old and true,
Of how they sailed across the blue.
And found a new lannd to be free.
And built thier homes quite near the sea.

Every child knows well the true
Of how they bravely turned and sail
And pilgrams turned the sail.
And journeyed many a day and night
To worship God as they thought right.



Here is a very cute craft

Horse

Take paper plate and fold in half
Cut a shape of a horse head and neck out of paper plate Use another paper plate to make the horse body.
Then glue head to paper plate it make a horse Add a tail and mane to horse neck. Painted the horse.
Too cute.

Christmas will be soon.

Here is a cute Christmas Poem.

S stands for stockings we hang up so high.
A is for all we get if we dont cry.
N is for nobody he will pass by.
T is for to-morrow. the day we eat pie.
A stand for at last old Santa is nigh.
C for the children who love him so well
L for the little girls. his name she can spell.
A stands for apples so rosy and red.
U is for us as we wait for his sled.
S stands for Santa Claus, who comes in the night. 
When we are tucked up in bed with    our eyes   
closed so tight.

HOPE ALL HAS A GREAT CHRISTMAS.
Daycare is close Dec 23-27
Jan 31- 1-2

Day care has a new ages for children enrolling for daycare
The ages are  12 month to 6 years.
We would like to welcome Ken and Kenzine to daycare.

THANKS FOR A GREAT YEAR.

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THE NEWSLETTER

Themes for the month of October
Tree
Pumpkins
Fall
Halloween

Letter D E F
Number 2
Shape Oval

Books
The Very Busy Spider Ants, Insects, Bats , Fire Safely,

Craft
Apple
Tree
Pumpkin
Ghost

Here a cute Ghost Song
Ghost, ghost turn around,
Ghost, ghost touch the ground.
Ghost, ghost arm up high
Ghost, ghost can you fly
Ghost, ghost go upstairs
Ghost, ghost say a prayers
Ghost, ghost turn out the light
Ghost, ghost say good night

Daycare will be closed Nov 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 for Thanksgiving Holiday.Have a great Thanksgiving Holiday.

We now have two new Girls. We would like to say we sure love having you at our daycare center. Welcome.

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Learning Step By Step Daycare




Theme This week was about Apple.

Circle Time
This week we talked about the different kind of apples. How we use apple and are they good for our body. We talked about where apples come from? a plant, a brush or tree. Matched different fruit to fruit pictures For example APPLE GRAPES BANANA WATERMELON STRAWBERRIES PEARS .

Here is a cute finger play

Five red apple in a store [child name] bought one and them there were 4
Four red apples on an apple tree [child] name ate one and then there were 3
Three red apple . What did [ Child name ]do?Why she ate one and then there were 2
Two red apple ripening in the sun[Child name ate one and now there is one
One red apple said [Child name] she likes to run
She ate the last one and now there are none.

Art
Art this week we paint big med and small apple different colors yellow red and green
We also cut a apple in half and made apple prints.

Daycare had a short week. At Daycare we had a water leak so we closed for two days,
I kept my grandson and he had a great time watching my son dig up the dirt, Of courses he had to play in the dirt, He had mud all over his feet when his mother came to pick him up. For sure I made no water , She just laughed. He is too cute.

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Learning Step By Step By Step Daycare


Theme for week was about leaves.

Circle Time

Here is a cute song.

Leaves in the town is falling down, falling down
Leaves in the town are falling down,, falling down
The leaves in the town fall all around town.

Let the children throw cloth leaves all over the room. Then we
rake them up to throw again.

Craft
The children painted leaves- LARGE Med SMALL
The children use red, yellow, green and brown paint.
The had a great time. The children love too paint.

I let the children match fuzz ball to a matching ball on black paper plates.
The children really enjoyed matching colored balls.

The children went to the park, raked leaves, painted leaves.

We had a great week. Thank god we are able to get out of bed do the things
that we love . Even if it doesn't make us rich.