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Alphabet Soup!!

This month, our alphabet soup letter was d. We made dinosaurs out of the letter, had lots of books with D words and learned a new dinosaur rhyme. We also did some fun things on our window. We used markers to colour and put foam pieces into water and then stuck them on.

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In the Jungle

Our playroom theme this week was jungle. We made paper plate snakes, read a Diego book and learned a new jungle song. The Animals in the Jungle Say (Sung to: The Wheels on the Bus) The parrots in the jungle say squawk, squawk, squawk, squawk, squawk, squawk, squawk, squawk, squawk The parrots in the jungle … Continue reading In the Jungle

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

This week was St. Patrick's Day week at playroom. We only did one craft this week since we just had babies at the playroom on Tuesday. On Wednesday though we did some paint stamping using cut peppers so they looked like shamrocks. We had grapes and green yogurt for snack. It was an all things … Continue reading Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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Monsters!!

This week our theme was monsters and we made squish painting monsters. I love this craft because you are never sure what you will get and they turned out great. You just fold a piece of paper in half, drop paint on one side, fold the paper back over and press down. Open up the … Continue reading Monsters!!

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Alphabet Soup!

We continued on with our alphabet soup theme. This week we made a bird out of the letter "b". The snack was from the Alphabet Soup in Motion handbook. Vegetable Roll Ups 1/4 c cream cheese 1/4 c plain yogurt 1/2 tsp dried dill (I just bought cream cheese with dill already in it) 1/4 … Continue reading Alphabet Soup!

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Valentine’s Literacy Day

This week I had another literacy day so the kids were able to go home with some Valentine's goodies. We made a heart "tree" for craft by tracing their hands and part way down their arm. They then used heart shaped containers to stamp the "leaves" on.

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Road to Sochi!

With the Winter Olympics coming up in a couple of days, the theme at playroom this week was Olympics. We made olympic torches and the Olympic Rings. Our snack even looked like a torch. Olympic torch snack Ice cream cone Frozen yogurt Dried mango (to look like a flame)

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Science is Fun!

This is probably one of my favourite themes. I love the looks on little faces when you do something cool. We didn't do crafts but instead did a few science experiments. Lava lamps We used a glass container we had here but I've done them at home with my own kids and just used a … Continue reading Science is Fun!

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Alphabet Soup

This week I based playroom on the Alphabet Soup principles. It is a program which was developed to focus on active play, literacy and family eating principles. At CFY, we follow these principles each week but I took some of the ideas from the Alphabet Soup manual. We also made alphabet crafts to go along … Continue reading Alphabet Soup