Younger Floor - March and April

In March, we planned a dino day and the kids are had so much fun!   Lots of kids came in wearing their dino shirt and we did some dino painting.  We stomped around the room like big dinosaurs and roared to our fellow dinosaur friends!  We had a tea party this month as well and baked a cake and cookies for it.  All of the kids really enjoyed the party!  Another activity that is always a hit, is making paper airplanes!  We had races to see who's plane is the fastest!

Lots of fun was had in April!  We made edible finger paint and it tasted awful...but we loved watching it change colors, squishing it between our fingers and on the paper.  Unfortunately the consistency made it break apart on the paper as it dried so we will try a different recipe in May!

The field at the Rec Center was one of the main places out walks took us this past month.  Checking to see how dry the fields were and running around the bases took quite a bit of energy, especially out of the teachers!!  With the warmer weather we have been learning about nature and answering a lot of "why"questions, especially when it came to the day we found worms outside; where do they live?  What do they eat?  Can they swim? Why are they slippery?  These were just a few questions! We reminded the kids to be very gentle with the worms and their bodies are very fragile. 

Easter was such a great experience for our newer staff and the kids!  Kristina set up a huge Easter egg hunt in the play yard for all the preschool children.  There were 56 plastic eggs with candy in them and each child was able to find 2.  We had so many excited faces and smiles as we were telling them that the Easter bunny had come while they were sleeping.  It was an amazing experience to watch all the children's excitement!!

The biggest highlight of the month was of course, the ZOO field trip.  Most of the kids were just excited to be on a school bus  but arriving at the zoo was great as well!  Seeing all the animals and the polar bears swimming around left lots of the children in mouth cropping stares!