I hope all families are doing their best to stay healthy through these uncertain times. I know here at Blooming Butterflies we are as lively as usual. We have talked about COVID-19 as being a sickness that is going around that many people are catching and there are ways we can help to not get us or others sick. The kids have been doing well with hand washing and covering sneezes and coughs, and making sure to not touch their faces as much as possible. I always know when handwashing is happening because I can hear them singing Happy Birthday, or similar songs, at the top of their lungs. Many of the children enjoy singing and I think they think it’s fun when we can hear them from the other side of the house and start singing with them.
Like I said, we are going through our days are normally as possible. It was recently St. Patrick’s Day and the kids were super excited that the Leprechaun came to put gold coins at the end of their huge rainbow. They spent a bit of last week and a couple of hours on Monday painting and decorating it so it would be ready for the Leprechaun to see. On St. Patrick’s Day we drank "Leprechaun juice", decorated paper Shamrocks and counted and grouped gold coins.
Throughout the week the kids also sorted rainbow coloured blocks, worked on their fine motor skills by picking up rainbow blocks and placing them on the grey squares on cards, put beads on pipe cleaners that corresponded represented the number on their rainbow cards, and did some rainbow blow painting with straws.
The kids are really into mazes of varying types; building pathways in the snow, constructing kid sided block mazes to walk through to get to the other side, using their fingers to find their way out of paper mazes and tracing dotted lines to take snowballs to the snowman at the bottom of the page.
Our letters this week were J and D. The didgeridoo was a very interesting D word to us. We listening to what it can sound like when it is being played, in a traditional way and in a modern sense.
Some other activities we did this week include baking, yoga, and playing with play dough. And we cannot forget that we celebrated a very happy 3rd birthday!
Like I said, we are going through our days are normally as possible. It was recently St. Patrick’s Day and the kids were super excited that the Leprechaun came to put gold coins at the end of their huge rainbow. They spent a bit of last week and a couple of hours on Monday painting and decorating it so it would be ready for the Leprechaun to see. On St. Patrick’s Day we drank "Leprechaun juice", decorated paper Shamrocks and counted and grouped gold coins.
Throughout the week the kids also sorted rainbow coloured blocks, worked on their fine motor skills by picking up rainbow blocks and placing them on the grey squares on cards, put beads on pipe cleaners that corresponded represented the number on their rainbow cards, and did some rainbow blow painting with straws.
The kids are really into mazes of varying types; building pathways in the snow, constructing kid sided block mazes to walk through to get to the other side, using their fingers to find their way out of paper mazes and tracing dotted lines to take snowballs to the snowman at the bottom of the page.
Our letters this week were J and D. The didgeridoo was a very interesting D word to us. We listening to what it can sound like when it is being played, in a traditional way and in a modern sense.
Some other activities we did this week include baking, yoga, and playing with play dough. And we cannot forget that we celebrated a very happy 3rd birthday!
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