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Monthly Program Themes - May 2013

Our varied programs help in developing the whole child by meeting their social, emotional, physical, and intellectual needs. 

 

Since children develop differently at different ages, we offer child care programs themes designed for certain age groups.

 

 

Program Themes for May 2013

Below is a sampling of activities that your child may experience this month. To see previous month's activities, please visit our Theme Archive.

 

 

Infants

Sample activities include:

  • Library & Language: Reading the featured Books: Animal Babies Around the House and Animal Babies in Towns and Cities by Kingfisher Publications; Exploring animal-related photo cards
  • Motor: Practicing grasping by holding spoons and “drumming” on boxes; moving to music
  • Cognitive: Placing soft baby animals in and out of a box; being introduced to the concepts of “big” and “small” by exploring objects of varying sizes

Toddlers

For Toddlers, the theme is “Animals.”  Sample activities include:

  • Library & Language: Discussing photos and books about animals; Handling animal magnets and animal stamps
  • Creative Arts: Painting with items found in nature such as feathers and sticks
  • Sensory: Exploring animal-home related materials such as twigs, feathers, and rocks
  • Dramatic Play: Pretending to take care of animals in a veterinary clinic

Discovery Preschool

For Discovery Preschool, the theme is “Insects and Spiders.” Sample activities include:

  • Library & Language Arts : Exploring insect-and spider-related books and photo cards; Using inset and spider stamps; Featured Book: The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani
  • Creative Arts: Creating yarn collages; Weaving with yarn and ribbon
  • Science & Sensory: Exploring plastic insects and spiders in paper “grass”; Observing live insects in a terrarium
  • Dramatic Play: Pretending to garden with child-size garden tools
  • Math & Manipulatives: Using pegboards to count

Preschool & Prekindergarten

For Preschool & Prekindergarten, the theme is “The Sky.”  Sample activities include:

  • Library and Language Arts: Writing and drawing on kite- and cloud-shaped paper; Discussing books and photo cards related to the sky; Featured Book: It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
  • Creative Arts: Making collages; Painting at the easel
  • Science & Sensory: Testing items to see which blow in the wind; Investigating birdseed and craft feathers+
  • Dramatic Play: Using props to pretend and imagine in a sky-themed area
  • Math & Manipulatives: Building with paper-bag blocks

For Prekindergarten, sample activities include:

  • Library & Literacy: Sorting flannel uppercase and lowercase letters; Featured Book: Beautiful Moments in the Wild: Animals and Their Colors by Stephanie Maze
  • Creative Arts: Making puppets; Creating a wild-animal mural
  • Science & Sensory: Exploring pendulums and tops; Exploring characteristics of animal habitats
  • Dramatic Play: Role-playing in a rain forest
  • Math & Manipulatives: Putting together and creating tangrams; Building animal dwellings with blocks

 

 

 

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