Happy Birthday Owyn!

We sang Happy Birthday to Owyn during our bible time today. He was a little bashful! 

We came back to the room and watched Owyn open up his presents, boy is he fast about ripping them open!

After present time we wanted to go outside but it was too wet outside on our playground so we went for a morning walk out front. We took turns getting out and walking, and it sure helped during their naptimes today.

The cupcakes were very yummy most of our friends were stripped down to their pants while we ate them. We each used our manners and said thank you to Owyn and we sang another happy birthday to him!

We had fun this afternoon playing with the balloons, we worked on kicking them, throwing them and bopping them around!

Our Cutest Moments:

It's Potty Time!!!

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would begin teaching my toddlers potty training, but since our age for our classroom is now 15 months to 2 and a half years  old. I get to embrace it with them. Now most of our toddlers have begun to show some of these signs between 18 and 24 months, although some may be ready earlier or later than that. And boys often start later and take longer to learn to use the potty than girls.

Instead of using age as a readiness indicator, look for other signs that your toddler may be ready to start heading for the potty, such as the ability to:

• follow simple instructions: (who wants to go potty? they either reply "yes" or "no") If they say "no" I don't push it I'll just ask again next time.
• understand words about the toileting process: (pull your pants down, for the boys: push your pee pee down, we work on wiping, flushing, and pulling up our pants.
• control the muscles responsible for elimination
• verbally express a need to go: This is a hit or miss topic, I'm usually asking them if they need to go potty but sometimes they do tell me.
• keep a diaper dry for 2 hours or more: This is a huge milestone, this means we can begin the process of potty training especially if they are showing an interest.
• get to the potty, sit on it, and then get off the potty: For our beginner potty tots, this is very exciting process for them we praise them and tell them they are such big kids. This is a step in the next direction.
• take off diapers, pulling down pull ups or underwear:  I've shown most of the potty tots how to take their diapers off, if they are having trouble I ask them can you tell me help please, and they do!
• show an interest in using the potty or wearing underpants: We ready many book about the potty. If your toddler has been consistently dry I will ask you to bring changes of underwear in to continue the potty training process. 

Here's is a potty chart I have created, I'm not quite done with it we will begin with the new charts next week I'll have them in a binder with our stickers and we will take it to the bathroom with us! And trust me when I say I have about every sticker they could imagine! 

Learning about Bugs!

Music & Movement (Self-Expression, Songs, Instruments-rattles & shakers)	Bible Songs with Miss Beth	I’m Bringing home a baby bubble bee	Itsy Bitsy Spider Finger Play	Singing Happy Birthday to  Owyn!!!	The Ants Go Marching By!
Literacy & Language (Book titles or language activities)	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Hello Bugs	The Spider	The Bee and Me	The Grouchy Lady Bug
Gross Motor Indoor & Outdoor (Toddler Games, Physical Coordination)	Playing in the gym Playing outside	Looking for bugs outside during our walk	Bug Actions! Spin like a spider Dance like a bee	Finding plastic bugs hidden in the dirt	Marching around the room
Fine Motor (Manipulatives)	Scribbling with chalk outside	Digging with shovels outside	Finger Print Bugs	Scribbling with crayons	Bucket of fine motor activities
Creative Experiences (Art and Sensory experiences)	Teacher’s Choice	Bubble Bee Footprint	Painting an egg carton and making a Caterpillar	Painting with Bugs	Footprint Butterfly’s

bubble, bubble, POP!

Our favorite song is bubble, bubble, POP! It's a made up song but all my toddlers enjoy doing the actions and saying the word pop at the end. So on Friday morning we chased bubbles outside and then in the afternoon I showed them how to blow bubbles and they all took turns trying to do it. 

Our Cutest Moments:

Painting like Picasso!

Every child is an artist! 

I love Spring because I can use watercolor paints more, it reminds me of warmer weather. They did so well painting with their paint brushes and dipping them into their paint pallets I was quite impressed, they are so smart!

We talked about what the caterpillar was going to eat, and they tried painting that particular food on their coloring sheet. 

After all was calm from art time, I decided to take them outside even though it was sprinkling we needed to get outside and burn off all our energy. 

We got a little messy while we were outside but we had so much fun digging in the mud and finding worms!

We don't throw fits anymore when it's time to go inside because we get to stand on a step stool and wash our hands in the sink like big kids!

Our Cutest Moments:

Rainy Day=Water Play!

Not sure what our toddler's deal was today but they were cranky, mean to each other and clingy I am hoping it was just the yucky weather.

 Our Birdy was chirping so much we decided to pet it!

We tend to give any friends that enter our room a hug!

Reading our favorite book The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Our Cutest Moments:

Toddler Fro Yo!

 

Found this on pinterest, I am going to make it for the Little Llamas next week because I have the reusable muffin cups.

 

A fresh new way to enjoy fro yo! These creamy bites come in all the colors of the rainbow. All you need are yogurt, fruit and a freezer. Easy freezy!

 

 



Eric Carle Books with activities

Music & Movement (Self-Expression, Songs, Instruments-rattles & shakers)	Bible Songs with Miss Beth	Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!	Learning our Body Parts Where’s Your?	What Does this Animal Say? Animal Flash Cards	Music playing  dancing with colored scarves
Literacy & Language (Book titles or language activities)	My Very First Book of Colors	From Head to Toe	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Brown Bear What Do you See?
Gross Motor Indoor & Outdoor (Toddler Games, Physical Coordination)	Playing in the gym Playing outside	Colored Magnet Shapes on the light box	Water play and sponges	Chasing bubbles and learning to  blow bubbles with a wand	Throwing balls into baskets
Fine Motor (Manipulatives)	Putting on colored felt shapes onto silly straws	Scribbling with crayons and markers	Squeezing sponges	Putting pipe cleaners into straws	Wiffle Balls and Pipe Cleaners
Creative Experiences (Art and Sensory experiences)	Teacher’s Choice	Frog Handprint	Caterpillar Handprints	Marble painting	Painting Animals and washing them off in water tub