As new children have entered the dayhome, the transition period has taken place! We have been working on practicing our manners and sharing numerous times throughout the day.

An effective way that I have found to get the children to share without always having to remind them, is to simply put it into our daily activity. For example, our craft on this day was to create a Tree of Hope. In order to make the Tree of Hope the children needed to gather leaves outside together, sit down, and glue the leaves on their piece of paper. Sounds simple, right? The trick... Mrs Sweet only allowed ONE gluestick to be used throughout this activity; meaning that, the children had to share. I have to say that they did a really great job at working together to gather the leaves, they sat patiently as each person glued their leaves on, but most importantly, they worked together and HELPED eachother when needed.  I was majorly impressed with their efforts on this craft. These kidlets were definitely rewarded with some gummy bears for working so hard and being so patient.  

Fall has been so incredibly jam-packed that I have neglected our dayhome blog! I promise to get back on track so that you can stay up-to-date with our fun adventures. To start, I would like to share some photos from the kids playing in the leaves and our gobble-gobble turkey craft! Hope you enjoy.

Today was full of activities for the children! One of the activities that we worked on was sensory play. This included having the children sit down in the Picasso Room and test out different textures by touching them with their hands, listening to them with their ears, looking at them with their eyes and smelling them with their nose ( We didn't do any taste textures, but that is soon to come too). The kids really enjoyed checking out all of the different textures, sounds and sights. The different items we played with were: crunchy rice krispies, noodles, soft playdough, hard lego blocks, almonds in a water bottle and almonds in a water bottle filled with water.  Green Spaghetti Noodles is a HIT and really easy to make (add food coloring). This activity worked for ages 1-3 years. Overall, a great day of fun, play and learning at Sweet Babies Family Day Home!