Blue Pinwheels for PREVENTION

April is known nationally as Child Abuse Prevention Month. We have 207 pinwheels in our yard, representing each child in attendance at AoSL! We're letting the entire world know we stand up and speak out against child abuse!

Excited to place their pinwheels in the ground

Placing pinwheels

207 pinwheels representing every child enrolled at AoSL. We stand up and speak out against child abuse!

The Week of the Young Child...Tasty Tuesday: Exploring Kitchen Gadgets!

In celebration of the National Association of the Education of Young Children or NAEYC's The Week of the Young Child, we had Tasty Tuesday: Exploring Kitchen Gadgets! Take a look at some of the fun below!

Is this how you work a pot?

Learning about pots and pans!

Painting with Kitchen Tools

Learning all about gadget we can use in the kitchen!

Farm Animals!

This week our 4-5 year old friends explored farm animals and life on the farm. We even had a friend's grandpa bring by a live chicken!

Meeting real chickens!

Petting a real chicken!

"Milking a cow"

Farm animal match!

Farm animal yoga poses!

Farm animal worksheet!

Rainbow Sensory

Children and even adults learn best and retain the most information when they engage their senses. Many of our favorite memories are associated with one or more of our senses. Providing opportunities for children to actively use their senses as they explore their world through ‘sensory play’ is crucial to brain development – it helps to build nerve connections in the brain’s pathways.
This leads to a child’s ability to complete more complex learning tasks and supports cognitive growth, language development, gross motor skills, social interaction and problem solving skills.
Today our friends in our Preschool  classes are exploring their sense of touch! 

Pre K's Transportation Month!

Preschoolers love activities that include playing with all types of transportation theme items including vehicles such as cars, trucks, airplanes and more. This topic is part of their everyday lives. They drive to school, have seen or ridden on a bus or taken an airplane to go on vacation. This natural interest in transportation is something they experience in their lives and brings the theme to life in the classroom. 

Transportation worksheet

Firetruck puzzle!

Learning about mysterious movers!

Nursery Rhymes!

A child's imagination is a powerful and unique thing. It's not only used to make up stories and games, it's a key factor in their creative thoughts and can define the type of education, career, and life they have. With this imagination comes a cultural literacy; fairy tales often include different cultures and ways of doing things. They also teach children right from wrong. Standing strongly within fairy tales of magic horses, glass slippers, and wolves blowing down houses is an underlying purpose. It's in a fairy tale's DNA to have a strong moral lesson, a fight between good & evil, love and loss, and these lessons rub off on children.
This month, we are proud to focus our attention on fairy tales and nursery rhymes as we help each child at our center grow, learn, and play!

Painting sheep!

Picking up sticks to lay them straight!

Coloring a pail for Jack and Jill!

Leprechaun Traps!

March means St. Patrick's Day, and we hear leprechauns like gold! Each friend was able to take home some leprechaun bait and a gold coin, in hopes of catching a leprechaun at home! 

SO MUCH FUN!