We had a fun colorful week, spotting colors everywhere. Here is the song we sang on color week:

Tune: Do you know the muffin man?

Can you find the color green, the color green, the color green?
Can you find the color green, somewhere in this room?


We also painted beautiful rainbows and read the book Ducky's Rainbow.

The girls played Find the Mouse.


Landon was clapping his hands and dancing to the music!


Ring around the Rosie is one of our favorite games.



Wow! Ian sure can build!


Last week, we read some fairytales and did some fun activities. We read The Three Billy Goats Gruff and made mountains for our goats to climb, made puppets, and trip trapped over our bridge.



We walked around the bridge, hopped on the bridge, walked backwards on the bridge, all the while singing "I'm the grumpy old troll, who lives under the bridge." (from Dora).
We also played a game where we compared the length of "grass." They had to pretend to be goats and pick up blades of grass and sort them into the corresponding containers.



We also had a lot of fun scarf dancing.




We read Thumblelina and made these cute puppets.

We read The Three Little Pigs and made these cute noses.

We are halfway through January already! Time flies when you are having fun. The first two weeks in January our theme was Snow/Winter. Here are some of the things we did.

We brought snow inside and played with it!
We read The Mitten and made our own mitten. We read Snowman at Night and asked the children "What does your snowman do at night?" Sophie's snowman plays with toys, Katie's snowman goes sledding and plays in the snow, and Lexus's snowman goes skating and does floppy jumps! We read Polar Bear, Polar Bear and painted and glittered our own snowflakes.


We also played with winter stamps, made footprint snowmen and played "Freeze!"


Sophie likes making Jack laugh!

Thaddeus is happy to share toys with Landon!

The garbage truck is super exciting!

The boys and I hanging out while the older kids nap!


We also practiced being good mommies and daddies by taking care of our baby dolls.







Look at how much talent we have at daycare! Kaylyn has been blessing us with sweet songs!


And Katie is our beautiful ballerina!


Piano trios always make for interesting compositions!


When we play with blocks, we are learning concepts of shapes, size, length, and location, all relative to learning to read and do math, to create and repeat patterns, to solve problems, and to cooperate with others!




When we play dress up we are learning to express ourselves in sentences, to solve problems, especially socially, through negotiation, to make decisions, to exercise imagination and creativity.

Kaylyn is "putting Katie to bed."
Sophie is "working on her computer."


Sweet baby faces!