Fabulous February

  When talking to the children about February themes, Valentine's is certainly exciting for our Gems!  "My Mom loves flowers!" and "My Dad makes heart cookies!" are a couple of the sweet comments I heard.  I quite regularly hear the children say "I love you" to their friends at daycare.  What a kind and loving group of kids we have!  A list of the children's names will be e-mailed to you soon so that your child can share Valentine's with their friends.  We will also learn about Ground Hog Day, Chinese New Year and Dental Health this month.

Our Academic learning themes will use our number line, focusing on counting to 60, letters L, M, N, O, and numbers 10,20,30,40. The colours  will be Red and Pink.   I have been so impressed with our preschoolers!  We have been working on our scissor and pencil grip skills as well as our pre-k worksheets with so much enthusiasm.  We have also recently begun playing board games :) 

 Self Help skills are coming along.  It is great to see kids learning to master skills like putting on/taking off their coats and boots, zipping zippers and opening snack containers.  

OUTINGS:
  Story Time at the library on Wednesdays.  We will leave around10am.  Our first trip to the library was a hit last Wednesday, we loved listening to Stella's songs and had fun listening to some great stories.
Now that we have a new set of wheels, I see some fun trips to the playground in our future!

  IMPORTANT DATES:
Feb 2  Ground Hog Day
Feb 14 Valentine's Day (Please bring in Valentine's On Feb 12 and 13th.)
Feb16 Daycare CLOSED for Family Day
Feb 19 Chinese New Year
April 3-10 Daycare CLOSED for Easter and Spring Break

Thank you so much for the parental support of our theme days at Judy's Little Gems.  It is really meaningful to the children to connect home and daycare this way.
Feel free to share any local Family Day activities or events that you have heard about on our Facebook page.

Wishing you a Fabulous February :)
Judy.

December 2014 Memories. January 2015 Newsletter

On Jan 1 it is really nice to reflect on the past year.  Wow!  So much happened in 2014 and it was so much fun!!

Working Together

Welcome to our Daycare Family!!

We had fun with Guinea Pigs!

 Artists Creating

Our Alphabet Game.  We know our Letters.

Will Mommy recognize me?

Easter Art

Strong and Healthy and Jumpy.  Spring :)

Thanks for sharing your Show and Tell.  

So proud of our accomplishments!

Ribbon Dancing!

Outdoor story time.  Look at these sweet faces looking at me <3

Table Toys

First Painting

Fun Learning to Play a Song with our Bells :)

Father's Day Gifts

Happy Birthday!

Our visit to the Farm

So glad you love it at my house.  

Thank you 

Berries!  So yummy.

What a great way to start the morning in the Summer.

Sharing, Problem solving, Summer fun.

You are so Generous!!

Thank you for the cupcakes!

One of the big kids now.  

September.  We lucked out and got to spend some extra time with our graduates this year due to school starting later.  This was the first day of Ballet for the girls and Kaiya and I did their hair :)

We made our own ball pit.

Zoom!  kicking up dust and making Smoke!

A great sensory experience.  So glad we built this sandbox in 2014.

Face Painting Day.  So Cute!!

We have got to do this again.  So free, creative and beautiful.

Developing Cognitive, Fine Motor and Self Help Skills

Making Thanksgiving Corn with Lego.  

Happy Halloween.  We are all smiles.

Making Planets during our Solar System Unit.

We love our new big Sensory Table.  So glad we added this to our Playroom in 2014.

Marble Planet

Halloween Free Dance Party

Pyjama Day was exhausting!  JK!

Cards, Wrap, Stickers and Ribbons

Santa Beards!

Mixing up the dough for our Salt Dough Ornaments

Making Cakes, Soups and other goodies

White Navy Beans and Corn that I dyed red.  A little peppermint and Voila....Candy Cane Sensory Table.

Rolling out the dough to make a Christmas Tree.  

Such Good Friends!

Carefully Crafted and Counted

Surprise!  What a lovely Christmas Present!

Very fancy Reindeer Hat

Thank you to our extremely Generous Families for putting together this Christmas Hamper.  

Snow Ball!!   Cornstarch Snow Dough 

Aww, such sweet little feet.  We made a MistleToes Gift for our Families.

Getting Comfy at DayCare and Discovering New Toys!

So Glad You are Here!!


Thank you for all of the wonderful memories in 2014! Working with your precious children and your amazing families has taught me so much about love, kindness and happiness.  Every day is so special and I am so thankful for these days with our little Gems.

January 2015: This month we re-introduce the Helper of The Day. This child will put out the place mats for morning snack, carry the name tags to circle, put the numbers on the calendar and use the pointer for counting, days of the week, months of the year and the alphabet. Children will learn new skills such as putting scraps in the compost, setting and clearing the table, pouring water into their cups, sweeping  up crumbs etc.  Our focus with helping is on fun and I can't wait to help the kids learn to dust with socks on their hands and play a tidy up game with our new timer :)   Being a helper is a great way to grow self esteem. It is amazing to see the confidence that comes with doing these important jobs and the happiness that both the helper and those she/he has helped, receive.  Snowflakes, Ice, Winter Animals and Homes, Home made Toys, as well as Winter Sports and Activities will be some topics we will explore.  Our Academic learning themes will use our number line, focusing on counting to 50, letters H, I, J, K, and numbers 8,9,10,11 and the colours Blue and Silver.   

Special Days:   Snowflake Party January 5 ( wear something Blue or Silver),  Penguin Day January 23(practice your penguin walk), Australia Day, January 26(get out your sunglasses and summer clothes....it is summer in Australia!), Mozart's Birthday, January 27, Puzzle Day, January 29.  

I am so excited to get started, See you soon!  This is going to be a super fun month :)

Wishing you a really Happy 2015!!

Judy.