It's not WHAT we make, but what we LEARN making it.

I hope that each day your little one looks forward to art time. It's not WHAT we make, but what we LEARN while making it. We are not only learning as we play, we are also taking time to explore our sight, taste, touch, and smell. Last week we learned a little about how polar bears hibernate. We painted polar bears with shaving cream. The children enjoyed touching and smelling the shaving cream. A few of the children said it smelled like daddy. They are so little, yet they are able to piece all sorts of things together, it is amazing. Here are a few pictures of the children painting a polar bear in a snow storm. When I send these home please take time to let your child rub the polar bears fur. The shaving cream will have dried and it will have a furry feel to it. I explained this to the children and I think they are excited to see how it feels now that it is dry.

Baby it's cold outside.

Ice painting.... They kids had so much fun with this. We talked about how cold the ice felt to the touch and about all the different colors we used.

Ava with her baby doll, I think they were getting ready to do a little shopping.

It has been a cold January, but we are staying warm at school. We have enjoyed our exercise time in the gym. One of our favorite things to do is to make it snow inside using cotton balls and our parachute. You would be so happy with your little ones listening skills when it comes to working together to get our parachute to go up and down. I know Mrs. Terre and I are.

Staying warm and germ free is tops on our list. Mrs. Terre and I spray all of the toys down with Lysol each day and wipe the tables down with Clorox wipes. Thanks again for your kindness in sending those in at the start of the school year. We want to keep your child feeling as well as possible. We miss them so much when they are out sick. Ask your child to sing the "Lets put on our coats song" Its a cute song and we are having a good time learning it.

I also hope that your child comes home talking about the games we are playing at music time. We love to sing about the snowman's sitting on a hill. He is a jolly little fellow. His hat is black, his scarf is red and his mittens are bright yellow. We are enforcing colors, patience, and taking turns. As a bonus we have learned that a pair of mittens mean two mittens, and that another word for happy is jolly. These little songs are so important in our learning, I hope that you take the time to sing them with your child. If you don't know the tune, chances are they do.. :-) Read them out loud once and they will have you singing along in no time.

Here are just a few pictures of what we have been up to. More to come SOON.. Hope you enjoy.

Holland's 3rd Birthday Celebration

Thank you Angie for sending in such beautiful princess cupcakes, they were wonderful and the children were so excited about them.

Jackson's mom sent in pudding, goldfish and juice in the place of our Christmas party. She also sent home beautiful ornaments with your childs name on it. Thank you so much for all you do as parents.


Jackson enjoying his yummy snack.. Thanks mom!!


Colin making his invisible snow man for our window. It was so much fun to see how different each child's snowman looked using the same pieces. Take a look at them on our window as you pick up your child from school. We are also learning how to spell our names outloud, these snowmen are a big help in the game we play. As you pass the window with your childs snowman ask them what letter their name starts with.

Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with family.. We look forward to more fun and learning on Monday!

More Christmas Fun

We were so busy at our Christmas party. Mrs Terre and I split the class into three fun Christmas Centers. Here is a picture of Mrs. Terre's center. They were making no bake cookies for Santa. The classroom smelled soooo good.. YUM.

At my center the kids made food for the reindeer. I am sad to say that with the rush of getting our coats on some of the reindeer food was left in the classroom. If your child ask perhaps you can make some as a family. Just take oats (oatmeal) and sprinkle glitter.

Shaking our glitter in our bag of oats.

Cooke Wrapping his present for mom and dad.

We sang a song as we wrapped our gifts. If you have gifts left to wrap at home let your little one help. Listen as they sing this cute song.

Oh, Im going to wrap a present, A present, A present.

Oh, Im going to wrap a present for Mommy (fill in with name) today.

I'll wrap it with paper and tie it with ribbon. Oh im going to wrap a present for mommy today.

Mrs. Judd (Jeremy's mom) brought in a wonderful Christmas snack. Jeremy's older brother Alexander helped serve. He was so Handsome in his Christmas apron.. Thanks to Alexander and his mom for their help.

Colin getting the oats for his reindeer food. They love measuring and scooping.

Holland putting her reindeer puzzle together so Mrs. Dshay could glue it.

Tack next to the Christmas tree.

Brook's 3rd Birthday celebration. The children loved the Toy Story plates and napkins. Thanks Wendy for bringing in special snack.

Darby curling Alyson's hair.. They love to do this.. I think its sooo cute.

Our third center was coloring. This was one busy group. They were ready to make coookies and reindeer food, but did good being patient as they waited their turn.

Frances making us some hot chocolate.

Holland and her reindeer.

Noah wrapping mommy and daddy's gift. Mom and Dad, notice the extra suply of tape on your gift.. The children had LOTS of fun with the tape.. LOL

Jeremy playing with our toy village.

Anne Miller checking rudolphs heart beat.. I love this picture.. She loves the doctor kit.

Anne Miller next to the Christmas tree.

Frances talking to Santa..

Connor next to the Christmas tree.

Avery next to the Christmas tree.

It's been a busy December

Wow I can't believe we only have one more week of school until Christmas break. Your children have been so excited about learning this month. I hope that they have shared some of their fun and excitement with you. I love the fact that we have this space and time to share just in case they are a little quiet when they get home. Here are just a few pictures of what keeps us busy at school.


On Wed and Thursday we had a Triangle hunt in our classroom. The Children took turns finding the triangles that Mrs. Terre hid around the room. When they got back to their seats they were able to glue them onto their Rectangle paper. These are the shapes we learned about this month. Nathan found so many triangles.. What a great job.

Everyone waiting patiently for their turn to hunt triangles.

Ask your children about the red poem we learned. If they need a little help start them out with Red is a ______.. They should be able to tell you Red is a stop sign, Red is a rose, Red is an apple and Rudolph's red nose! Here is a picture of Brook wearing Rudolph's red nose.

Nathan and Rudolph's Red nose.

Jared and Rudolph's Red nose. I hope that this fun poem helped enforce the color red in an exciting way. It was also a great way to practice patience as we waited for our turn to be Rudolph.

After snack time each day we have quiet book and puzzle time. These two guys are the best of friends and had fun reading a book together.

Nathan reading Pizza Pat.. This book is a favorite in our classroom.. Ask your children what happened to pizza pats pizza.. It's really a cute story,and the children all know the quirky little rhymes.

Jared and Brook at book time.

Tack had so much fun with the pretend snow. He was so silly. He would put the snow in this glue cap and blow it.. Then he would just laugh and laugh and laugh..

Brook, Holland and Frances have become great hairstylist at school. They love to take turns doing each others hair.. Notice the blanket they are sitting on.. Brook is one smart cookie, she sings our have a seat song and lays the blanket out just like Mrs. Terre and I.. She knows how to get them to sit. LOL

Mrs. Terre and Cooke work on Cooke's Rectangle fire place Place mat. Ask your children how many Rectangles are on their place mat. Don't be surprised when they count the place mat itself. It is after all a rectangle. It was so much fun listening to your children tell us about their family and their stockings at home.

Darby making her fireplace Place mat.

Tack and Frances having sooo much fun together. I love seeing this. Playtime is a special time for sure.

Jackson making his Santa countdown. If anyone takes a picture of their child counting down to Christmas with Santa, I would love to see it. You can e-mail it to me at quickkids@myglnc.com

Ava and Darby sorting our red a green balls. This is great sensory play.

Colin making a Santa pattern. Great Job Colin.

This month we have been blessed to have Mrs. Stephanie Worrel and her daughter Fletcher from the five day class come in for our enrichment program. They taught us all bout primary colors and what happens when we mix them. Here are a few pictures of the fun we had. Be sure to thank Mrs. Worrel and Fletcher if you see them at school.

Wow.. What great BIG paintbrushes.. Even Mrs. Terre and I thought these were cool.

Colin and Cooke taking turns with the yellow paint shaker. We used this one to mix with blue.. I bet you know what color we got then.. Ask your child if he/she knows.

Fletcher helping her mom mix the colors.. The children were amazed, as you can see..

Look at us at the carpet.. I am so proud of your children.. Hope you enjoyed some of the fun we have had.