We are CLOSED...

Please remember that we are CLOSED Friday August 31st and Monday September 3rd for our company wide teacher in-service and Labor Day! We hope you have a fantastic long weekend!

Kona Ice visit

What better way to end the summer than a visit from the Kona Ice Truck?! Our friends absolutely loved having a snow cone on a hot summer day! Look at all the fun below!

The Power of Math

This week has been all about the Power of Math! The basic math skills our teachers provide in early childhood education set the building blocks for the entire academic career. Preschoolers learn simple skills like number sense, math concepts and simple application of ideas like adding. Fortunately, our young children are able to learn at a remarkable rate and teachers can apply concepts or math skills to normal childhood activities. 

Take a quick glance at some of the math fun we have been having this week!

Dot Painting "Pi"

Counting connetors

Making shapes with play-doh

These friends made a pattern. Can you guess what it is?

IMAGINATION!

Everything that is real was IMAGINED first!

Our friends in Preschool 1 made a rocket ship and went to the moon during the Power of Imagination Week!

The rocket ship that took them to the MOON!

The Power of Imagination

Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Imagination is the door to possibilities. It is where creativity, ingenuity, and thinking outside the box begin for child development. Imaginative and creative play is how children learn about the world. During imaginative play, children manipulate materials, express themselves verbally and non-verbally, act, interact, react, and try different roles.This week is all about The Power of Imagination at AoSL. Imagining, trying new ways of doing things, and experimenting help develop critical thinking in children and foster creative problem solving. Imagination also builds social-emotional development by allowing children to contemplate different resolutions, boosting children's confidence, which can be used in interactions with others.
Our friends will be exploring all kinds of imaginative ideas this week. Take a look at today's adventures. 

Being magicians and making a magic potion in PS4

Being a pizza chef in PS2

Being bakers in PS2

Cooking a great meal in Toddler 3

Babies, Babies, Babies!

FOUR of our wonderful teachers at AoSL are expecting little ones. This will be baby #2 for 2 of the teachers and the first for the other two teachers! What an exciting time?! We decided to shower them all with a surprise baby shower during their lunch breaks. SO. MUCH. FUN.

Pajama Day!

One of our favorite days of the year is PAJAMA DAY!

Look at some of these total cuties in their jammies!