This week in the infant classroom the theme is Families. We have talked about quite a bit but here are our crowd favorites. Today, we all had such a blast at our Thanksgiving Feast! We loved talking about all the foods we ate today, and which was our favorite. The older infants enjoyed stamping with empty paper towel rolls dipped in orange paint. It was fun to practice standing and making art with friends and teachers. We also enjoyed sticking leaves to clear contact paper, exploring stacking rings and dropping small cars inside a hallow tube! It has been a great week in the infant classroom, but we look forward to our Thanksgiving theme next week! Until next time!

This week in the infant classroom, the theme is theme week! We have explored quite a bit but here are our favorites from the week so far. We all enjoyed trying on sunglasses, big and small, in the play yard mirror. The group practiced using buttons and small zippers on cloth dolls with different skin tones and hair types. It was fun to talk about the colors and simple body parts on the dolls with the group. We also tried our coats on backwards for backwards day! We talked about the weather outside and how we use our coats to keep us warm when the weather changes seasons. The group enjoyed making marks with jumbo crayons on colorful paper, chalk on chalk boards and shaking sensory bottles together. This has been a great week, but we look forward to a new theme on Monday. Until next time!

This week in the infant classroom the theme is all around the world! The infants enjoyed quite a bit but here are a few of our favorite activities from the week. Although Halloween’s theme was last week, we all enjoyed our Halloween celebration in the center. It was fun to see familiar teachers, siblings, and practice waving, signing please or saying hello/goodbye! Moving onto all around the world, the group enjoyed reading books about babies around the globe, listening to different types of music like African or Cuban music during play, and exploring maracas! This has been a wonderful week in the infant classroom, but we look forward to a new theme on Monday! Until next time!

This week in the infant classroom, the theme is Halloween! We enjoyed quite a bit but here are our favorites from the week. The entire group enjoyed sticking cotton balls to clear contact paper with a ghost drawn on it. We also practiced tossing bean bags inside a spider web tapped to the floor! It was fun for the older infants to practice clapping for their younger friends who were able to pick up and handle the bean bags. The group also loved looking for a small pumpkin that teachers hid in the room! We also loved talking about the weather we saw this week out of our classroom window! It has been a wonderful week in the infant room, we look forward to finishing off Halloween on Monday with a parade and a new theme Tuesday! Until next time.

This week in the infant classroom the theme is Numbers. We have explored quite a bit, but here are our favorites from the week. The group loved counting out loud as we stacked jumbo blocks up and knocked them down. We also practiced shaking small shakers fast and slow together. The group also loved exploring with empty lids and containers, and it was fun to try and sort the containers, by their size with teacher help and counting the groups of containers out loud. We also loved waving rainbow ribbons around the room while we listened to music, as well as practicing making marks with jumbo chalk on mini chalk boards! It has been a great week in the infant room but we look forward to a new theme on Monday. Until next time!

This week in the infant classroom the theme is Nursery Rhymes! We have explored quite a bit but here are our crowd favorites. The entire group loved singing all different types of nursery rhymes with teachers as we used the hand helper. We sang, 5 little ducks, 3 little monkeys and the itsy-bitsy spider! We also loved practicing clapping with the younger infants and signing "all done" after finishing the song! The group also loved looking out the window and talking about the changing of the leaves and how they're turning orange and falling. All of our friends enjoyed reading sensory books that rhyme together as a group and practicing turning pages together! It has been such a wonderful week in the infant classroom, but we look forward to a new theme on Monday. Until next time!

This week has been all about those people that put their lives at risk every day to keep us safe – firemen and police officers. We also introduced them to different occupations through puppets and cloth covered drama toys. They have had a chance to play with nurse and doctors items and pretend to listen to their hearts with our stethoscopes, which some thought was pretty funny. They watched occupation puppets tell stories and listened to books about the same people in different situations describe what it is they do. The older children tried on firemen hats and practiced taking them on and off while watching themselves in the mirror. Activities to practice fine motor skills have included pop-up boxes, stacking shakers and coloring on a piece of paper. Many are working pulling themselves up, getting back down and moving around the furniture once getting up has been figured out. Crawling on music mats and pushing cars back and forth on the floor have made the best sounds and they all want a chance to try their hand at it. All of this while developmental skills are being practiced daily (sitting up and crawling, how exciting!). It has been a fun filled week of moving and grooving and now we are ready to move onto next week where we get to dive into all the different and fun nursery rhymes that are out there for them to hear.

This week in the infant classroom the theme is Pirates! We have explored quite a bit this week but here are our favorites. The group enjoyed reaching for floating light up sensory balls in a bin of shallow water. It was fun to count out loud when the infants successfully grabbed them and pulled the balls out of the water! We also used empty paper towel rolls as binoculars and talked as if we were out at sea! We also explored using the small electric aquarium with the lights off, noisy busy boxes and finger painting. It has been a wonderful week in the infant classroom, but we look forward to a new theme of Fire Safety and the new month of October! Until next time.

This week in the infant classroom the theme is Fall! We have explored quite a bit but here are our favorites so far. The entire group loved exploring with a large rainbow parachute and tossing fake flowers and leaves up in the air with teacher help! The group also enjoyed finger painting with fall colors like orange, brown and yellow! The younger infants tried taking small sensory balls in and out of the pockets of a muffin tin, while the older infants enjoyed clapping and counting the balls with teachers! We sat in front of the window every morning this week and talked about the leaves falling and changing color! We also talked about the changes in the weather recently and how soon we will all need hats, gloves and jackets to stay warm. It has been a great week in the infant classroom, but we look forward to a new theme on Monday! Until next time!

This week in the infant classroom the theme is Colors and Shapes! Here are a few of our favorite activities from the week. The older infants loved practicing taking steps on top of taped shapes on the ground with small push carts, gluing different shapes onto bright yellow paper and clapping for If you're happy and you know it. The entire group loved building and knocking down large colorful blocks in different shapes and sizes! It was fun to sort the blocks as well by color with teachers. We also explored with bubbles, busy boxes and sensory books where teachers pointed out familiar shapes and objects. It has been a great week in the infant classroom but we look forward to a new theme on Monday! Until next time