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Infant Room - December 2018 Update

December came and went in the blink of an eye!  We said good-bye to tow of our little friends; Max and Calix, and welcomed two new faces, Roxul and Walker.

The children love to spend time outside so we try to get outside everyday, sometimes twice a day - as long as the weather is nice enough!  They all love to get pulled around our yard in the toboggan.  They always have smiles on their faces from ear to ear.  We have also noticed the children love to use their hands to smash things.  Outside, they sit at the picnic tables and we make snow castles using our pails then they all race to smash them!  So, because we noticed they like smashing things we started to think of other activities we could do with them to build on their interest.  One day we offered the children play tools to smash cheerios and another day, we made a volcano and the children enjoyed touching the fizz that came out and breaking the volcano after. 

Later in December we started to do all kinds of Christmas activities.  We played with a felt snowman, decorated a felt Christmas tree, bells and candy canes using stickers.  We also made a beautiful white snowman using glue and paint.  One day, we even used chocolate pudding to color paper plates and made them into reindeer.  Afterwards, we read stories about reindeer and we even brought in a a reindeer antler for the children to look at an feel!

We will continue the watch what the children enjoy doing and think of different ways we can incorporate their interests into daily activities. 

We hope everyone had an awesome Christmas and wish you all the best in 2019!

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