"Fishing" for Your Referrals

We are "fishing" for your referrals.  "Catch" a snack on your way home as well as instructions on how to leave us a Google review.  We want to spread the word on what a "swimming" school we have here! 

Slithering Snakes

Preschool Two's wonderful word of the week is "slithering".  They have slithered like snakes all up and down the hallway and today they painted paper plates outdoors with watercolors then cut into a spiral to make them into snakes.  What a fun way to learn new vocabulary!

Potty Training Workshop

Last night we hosted our annual parent potty training workshop.  We love to help our families through developmental milestones like potty training.  We want to support our parents any way we can and free education classes are just one way we accomplish this.  It's a great time to come together, support each other, and learn a lot. 

 Thank you to all the parents who joined us for this free workshop.

 Ms. Mary, from Child Care Resource and Referral, was our amazing host.

Ms. Mary made the information informative and fun!

Annual Earth Day Picnic

It was the perfect day for a picnic as we celebrated Earth Day.  Thanks to all the family members who came to join us for lunch.

Provocations!

Believe it or not, summer is right around the corner.  It's hard to fathom since we had snow flurries this week but it will be here before we know it.  Returning this summer is our award-winning program, The Power of Play!  We again will focus on development through the powerful method of playful learning.  New to this summer's program will be Literacy Provocations.  Don't know what these are?  No worries!  You will soon find out and be able to explore provocations as a family with our weekly Provocations Stations starting in June.

In preparation for this new addition to our already outstanding program, our educators met together last night to learn about provocations and do a little exploring themselves.  Their only complaint was they wanted more time to play!  Check out the pictures below from last night's meeting.

 Resources and freebies to get them started and spark ideas!

 Literacy prompts!

 Books galore!

 Play time!

 Exploring the books were half the fun.

 Nothing like hands-on training.

 They started to really get into it!

 Full engagement.

Who's Afraid of a Little Paint?

We're not!  We know at AoCS that painting is extremely important to a child's development.  Check out seven benefits of finger painting below and see just one of our many painting adventures we completed this morning.

Benefits of Finger painting include:

• It is an excellent tactile experience.
• It stimulates your child’s senses. (Touch/feel, sight, smell, edible finger paint= taste)
• It helps a child’s intellectual development. The mixing of colors teaches your child about their colors and how to create new colors
• It allows them to use their imagination and create
• It is emotionally soothing (in most cases).
• It encourages cognitive development.
• It strengthens the hand and fingers which helps with fine motor skills.
• Most importantly, it is FUN!

 Starting to paint our butterflies.

Things got a little messy, and a whole lotta fun!

 Paint everywhere! Even on Ms. Kaitlyn!

 But it caused a lot of smiles.

 Good thing it's washable paint!  ;)

 The beautiful aftermath.