January 17th, 2012

Oh my goodness, how could I not post the best information of the day..........Congratulations to Josh and his mom and dad, Rebecca and Stephen, on the birth of their second son this very cold Tuesday morning!  Both mom and baby are doing well and we hope to meet this new addition very soon<3

January 17th, 2012

We are painting our egg carton penguins :)

My oldest kiddo doing a fantastic job as usual!

My second oldest working very hard.  He takes painting serious!

My youngest Kiddo just about done with all this "crafting!!"

Bingo daubing is AWESOME!!

Our newest toy, The Ironing Board!!

The finished product of Egg Carton Penguin :)

I have to comment on the weather again today!  WOW!  is it ever cold!  We are so happy to have a nice, warm home to play in all day:)  We continued on with our Penguin theme today making little egg cup penguins from http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mcarton-penguin.htm and LOTS of bingo daubing of both penguins and our abc's!  We just had a great day!  Tomorrow we will be talking about what activities different penguins do throughout the day and at different times of the year.  We will learn a lot tomorrow.  I have also posted a picture of our "new" ironing board I purchased off Kijiji!  The kids think it's hilarious!  I think it's so cute.  Circa 1990 for sure.  Isabella thinks she remembers having one just like it!  Stay warm and have a great evening.

January 16th, 2012

My oldest dayhome kiddo!

My second oldest dayhome kiddo!

Happy Monday everyone!  And for those of you who live in Alberta like us.....Happy VERY COLD Monday!!  Hope you all kept warm today!  We sure did, learning about Penguins!  We did an action poem called, "The Penguins" this morning which was very cute.  We made a penguin puppet to do the actions for us.  This poem and puppet came from Mailbox Magazine, one of my all time favourite resources for everything Kid Like!!  We enjoyed Penguin crackers which, quite honestly, I think are the cutest crackers that have ever been made by Presidents Choice!  This afternoon we measured ourselves against the Penguin wall to see which penguin each of us was closest to in height.  My oldest kiddo measured in between the King Penguin and the Emperor Penguin.  My second oldest measured heights with the Megellanic Penguin and my youngest kiddo wouldn't stand still to be measured!!  Hahaha!  Tomorrow we are making an egg carton penguin that we will feed fish crackers too!  I know the kids will think that's pretty funny! This week we will be having a "Black and White" day on Thursday.  Please have the children dress in both black and white if you have it.  Thanks everyone!  Have a great day tomorrow and stay warm!

January 15th, 2012

Last week I said that I would post some pictures of the dayhome and what I consider a "print-rich" environment.  Here are some of the walls of the dayhome and some of the centers.  Please leave a comment and tell me what you think!  Thanks everyone:)

January 15th, 2012

What a busy weekend!  I apologize for not uploading Thursday's Hibernation Day pictures sooner!  We had lots of fun!  Hibernating in our "bear cave," playing games with our special bears we brought from home and eating Teddy Grahams for snack!  This week's theme is... Penguins!  This is always a favourite with the kids and myself!  We will play penguin games, make lots of penguin crafts and of course, learn all about penguins!  Should be a great week!  A lot colder than last week that's for sure.  Stay warm and check back often to find out what we've done and what we will be doing.  Have an awesome week!

January 11th, 2012

I was just downstairs getting ready for Hibernation Day tomorrow and I was thinking about a "print rich" environment.  I have to say when I am down there it truly makes me happy.  With all the cute posters on the wall ANNOUNCING our different themes of the month, it puts a smile on my face.  I hope the children feel the same!!  I will post some pictures this weekend so you can all have a look and maybe even leave a comment or two.  I would love to know what you think!  Today was a lovely day!  We even made it outside to hang up our bird feeders from yesterday.  The kids really love being out there.  We are going to make a bigger effort to enjoy the Winter.  Especially with the weather being so nice!  Today we finished up a What does Teddy Wear during the Winter? booklet made with painted paper plates, lots of colouring and cutting.  Pretty cute.  I won't post any pictures of this because quite honestly I don't remember where I got the idea from!  We are looking forward to tomorrow and spending some time in our "Bear Cave!"  Which is really just our castle covered with a big quilt!  The kids will like it!  Have a great evening everyone!
Bonnie:)

January 10th, 2012

This past Christmas I bought a pancake pan that had Christmas ornaments right in the metal of the pan so when you put your pancake batter on top it makes patterned pancakes!!  Well honestly, I thought that it was the cutest thing I had ever seen.  The pancakes were so cute and I knew the kids would love them.  I was telling one of my dayhome moms about this fabulous pan and during her travels through the stores she found another one with animal patterns on it and gave it to me!  I LOVE IT!  We made pancakes for lunch today and the kids asked if we could have "fancy pancakes" everyday!  Look how amazing the pancakes look!  You just want to eat them!!  We also played a wonderful Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? memory game today that I made from the same web sight  as the Colouring Animals booklet http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/BrowBearBrownBear.html The children really enjoyed it.  We also made some very simple but fun bird feeders today.  I got that idea from Preschool Playbook http://www.preschoolplaybook.com/search/label/Winter It was too windy and snowy to hang them up today so we will do that tomorrow.  Looking forward to another busy day:)  Sorry about the pictures not being in order or straight.  I have a lot to learn about posting/blogging! Have a great evening!