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Summer has come and gone so fast but we had a blast!  We welcomed a few new faces into our room as well, Lexi and Olivia. This month we transformed our back room into an amazing play area for the children and they absolutely loved it!  It is set up to help the children develop more of their gross motor skills.  We have large foam blocks set up for them to climb on and recently we added a ball pit, that they love to jump in and out of and throw the balls everywhere! The weather has been so nice this month that the children have been able to spend a lot of time outside, which they have absolutely loved.  The children can often be found playing in the sandbox, digging with shovels, climbing up the slides and running around the play yard, push each other around on the toys and exploring the music wall!  We enjoyed a visit from Prairie Wildlife this month and we got to see lots of cool reptiles!   

This last month of summer has sure been eventful! The children surprised us with the amount of braveness and curiosity when we had the Prairie Exotic Visitor come to visit. They showed us bearded dragons, geckos, snakes, a tarantula, some frogs and a turtle. Most of the animals the children were able to touch (other than the tarantula and the frogs), and they even had the snakes wrapped around the children’s legs and laid out across their legs to touch and feel them. We got some pretty amazing pictures that I will share with you (keep an eye out in the room or for an email containing pictures of random things we did this summer). We also did an outdoor challenge (only half the day as there was a bit of smoke) and the children seemed to really enjoy it. Everyone kept busy and some even napped outside.   The next day, we set up the gym with a huge cozy corner, a massive block building area, a table top area with a toy that promotes practicing counting/ numbers, colors, sorting/ mat...

It has been an amazing summer! The kids had so much fun on the field trips and getting to learn new and exciting things. We also loved hearing from each child the special things that they did when they had time off from daycare J This August, the children had a lot of visitors and they really enjoyed all the special people that came.   On August 9, we got a visit from the Wild Life Rehab. They came in and we got to meet 2 very special owls that they are caring for at their facility! The children loved looking at the owls and they asked lots of questions – a questions that was asked often was, “Can we pet them?”   We also had another visitor come from Prairie Exotic! They came and showed us snakes, geckos, spiders, frogs, and even a bearded dragon! The children were so excited to see all the animals and lots of them were brave enough to pet some of them!   On August 10th, we did a ‘Pay It Forward’ challenge! The children had a lot of fun coloring pictures for people aro...

Well August has come to an end. School is starting, we’ve said “see you soon” to our friends moving up to kindergarten and “welcome” to our new friends joining Older Floor.   We have had such a fun filled month in August.   We hope your children have enjoyed all our activities as much as we have.   The first week in August we did a pay it forward community challenge.   We brainstormed with the kids on what we should do for our community.   They came up with so many amazing ideas, from baking cookies for the fire hall, to leaving notes/pictures at people’s homes, to what we finally settled on which was painting rocks and hiding them around town.   It was so much fun to see what the children created.   Once our rocks dried we went on a walk around town and each child hid their rock in a different area of town.   If you’re ever out for a walk around Sanford see if you can find out beautiful rocks!   Our next week was a short one but full of fu...

Our second half of summer was very busy! We continued our Around The World project, "visiting" Egypt, Scotland, Australia, and India. The children were especially excited to have Jasvinder come to the room to tell them about India! She brought in traditional clothing and jewelry, talked about the languages and holidays, and did henna tattoos! Jordy organized a really fun day of challenges inspired by the show Survivor, and despite it being a little chilly out the children were excited to complete challenges like scavenger hunts, balancing on one foot, and making tribal necklaces. We finished the day with a delicious snack of "worms and dirt"! Another highlight was our field trip to Boonstra Farms where we got to milk a cow, feed horses, and navigate our way through a corn maze! The bus ride back was a good opportunity to rest after all the fun. Back at the Centre we have been enjoying as much sunshine and fresh air as possible before cooler weather sets in. We have ...