Five Little Ducks Snack

If your child came home looking like a smurf yesterday, we apologize!  It was just our afternoon snack to correlate with our curriculum.  This week we've been learning about the song "Five Little Ducks".  So we made a duck pond using a rice cake for the base and blue colored icing as the water on top.  Then we added five candy ducks on top.  As you can tell from the pictures, the kids loved it!  At least we think so because it's pretty hard to tell if they got any in their mouths.  :)

Histown Dancers

Thank you to Histown Dance Studio for visiting AoCS today as our last Fitness Fanatics special guest.  They brought three very talented young ladies that taught the children amazing dance moves.  We love using our body to stay healthy.  For more information on Histown Dance please visit www.Histown.com or call 615-840-8849.

Wacky Work Out Clothes

We are still going strong for Fitness Fanatics.  So much so that we wore our wacky work out clothes today to celebrate!  Check us out!

 Flex those muscles!

 Ready to work out.

 Work out clothes with a pose too!

 Cheesin' in our fitness gear!

 So bright and colorful!

 Ms. Rebecca and Ms. Lindsay are ready!

 Pre-K Two work-out ready.

Wearing wacky fitness clothes makes me so happy!

Breakfast Buses

This week we've continued our study of Traditional Songs by focusing on The Wheels on the Bus.  So we made buses from Twinkies with mini Oreos as the wheels.  Admittedly, it's not the healthiest snack but we deserve a treat every now and again.  :)  The kids enjoyed assembling their buses..then devouring them!  Maybe we should add a verse to the song that says "the wheels on the bus go in our bellies." 

Toddler Two Sweet Hearts

Toddler Two is full of sweet hearts!  Love is already in the air as we look forward to Valentine's Day.  Here is Toddler Two making hand print hearts.  How adorable!

Family First Fitness Demo

Thank you to Family First Martial Arts for being a special Fitness Fanatics guest today.  They taught the kids a little about karate and even gave some a chance to try it themselves.  The kids love special guests...especially ones as cool as these!  Call 615-425-6554 for more info on Family First Martial Arts.

Small Bodies...Big Minds

Even though our students may be small, their minds are BIG!  We have future chefs, scientists and inventors on our hands.  Check out Pre-K One during two of their coolest activities!

 Milk and food coloring experiment

Baking Play-Doh

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Everyone at AoCS wishes you a happy MLK Jr. Day!  Preschool Two was very interested in learning about the life and beliefs of Dr. King during story time today.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal." 

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. 

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. 

I have a dream today. 

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today. 

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exhalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. 

This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. 

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. 

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." 

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. 

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that; let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. 

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

You Can't See Us!

Camo was very popular today in Preschool Two!  :)

Too Cute Not to Share!

We had a friend in Pre-K Two that brought silly eyes to show-and-tell this week.  This picture was just too funny not to share!

Even MORE Spider Art

It's Itsy Bitsy Spider Mania around here and Toddler Two and Preschool One wanted to get in on the fun!  Toddler Two use plastic spider rings and Preschool One used toilet paper tubes.  Both are so creative and the students had a blast making more spider art.

 He was very interested in her making her spider art!

 The spiders' legs made super cool patterns.

 Toilet Paper Spiders