I'd like to extend a warm Welcome Back to those returning to daycare and a special Welcome to our new families. This year we say good bye to a few of our daycare friends as they go off to school! I am so excited for them as they begin a new adventure in their lives! To these families I'd like to say Thank You. I have loved being a part of your child's early years.
It has been a really relaxed and fun summer at Judy's Little Gems. The weather was beautiful. We had days and days of sun to enjoy (in a row!!) We loved being outside playing in the water and sand, swinging on the swings and blowing bubbles. This year we tried a new location in the garden to plant our sunflower and bean seedlings (we started these inside in the spring)....And did they ever Grow!! We had a nice visit with the animals at the Hands on Farm at the Filberg in July and had lots of fun in August when our music and dance visitors shared their artistry with us. Thank you to Carol Ann from Kindermusik, our young student teachers who taught us ballet, young local dancers who showed us all about Ukranian Dance and Alee who taught us some hip hop dancing. I really appreciate these opportunities to extend our learning.
We have an exciting fall ahead of us! Some themes we will be exploring will be: Changing Seasons, Self Awareness/Self Help, Friends, Community Helper: Police. Our academic learning themes will include use of scissors, glue, pencil grip and control, writing names and numbers 0-10. We will be focusing on pre-reading skills such as matching, rhyming, learning letter sounds, listening to and expressing ideas about stories and poems. We will continue our calendar count to 30/31 in english and french. We have also been learning 1-10 in Spanish! We have started work with 100 charts and will continue exploring numbers up to 100, counting by 5's and 10's. Let me know if your child has a particular learning theme that they would like to explore with us. I think it is extremely important to use the children's areas of interest when planning activities! We will continue to do our show and tell. If your child has something they would like to share with us we would love it!! We will also have a helper of the day for calendar time :) This month we will have 3 fun Theme Days: Dr. Seuss Day, Tuesday September 10. Favorites Day, Friday September 20. Red Day, Wednesday September 25. More info to follow on our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Judys-Little-Gems-In-Home-Multi-Age-ChildCare/234946879895518
With the changing of the seasons, I am asking that Parents ensure that the children have clothing appropriate for the weather. At this time of year the weather can be a bit unpredictable, so please make sure that your child's backpack contains clothing for rain or sun. Rain coats, rain pants and rain boots are needed since our backyard can get quite muddy as the fall progresses.
Thank you for all of your support, and Thank You So Much for bringing your Little Gems to me.
Judy.
