During the month of August, your child will have fun summer-related activities at our centers. Below is a sampling of some activities your child may participate in.

• Infants 
• Toddlers 
• Discovery-Preschool 
• Preschool 
• Prekindergarten 

 

Infants

For infants, the theme is “Sunny Days.” Sample activities include:

• Library & Language: Participating in interactive conversations and games with adults using books, puppets, and toys
• Motor: Moving to music; Practicing walking; Practicing sitting up
• Cognitive: Exploring objects, colors, and sounds of “beach bottles”
• Sensory: Exploring sand, Washing baby dolls

 

Toddlers

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

• Library & Language: Exploring books about people expressing emotions, including The Way I Feel and Clap Your Hands; telling stories with picture magnets
• Creative Arts: Making newspaper sculptures
• Sensory: Dancing on sticky contact paper to explore the texture with feet
• Dramatic Play: Pretending to go on a picnic using items such as picnic baskets and plastic food and dishes
• Motor: Exercising together; Tossing balls

 

Discovery Preschool

For Discovery Preschool, the theme is “Sand.” Sample activities include:

• Library & Language Arts: Exploring sand-related books and photo cards; Using words to describe the textures on tactile cards; Featured books: Summer by Gerda Muller and Sea, Sand, Me! by Patricia Hubbell
• Creative Arts: Creating sand rubbings; Making paper-bag kites; Fingerpainting
• Science & Sensory: Searching for objects hidden in sand; Making play-dough sand castles
• Dramatic Play: Pretending to be at the beach
• Math & Manipulatives: Arranging objects according to size; Sorting objects by attributes; Using measurement tools to make sand shakers

 

Preschool

Preschool classrooms will follow Summer Camp curriculum. Some weekly themes being explored during this month are Scienterrific, Spectacular Sports, and Animal Antics. Sample activities include:

• Library and Language Arts: Writing stories about different types of movement; Creating trading cards; Creating animal word-search puzzles
• Creative Arts:  Making paper airplanes; Creating geometrical shapes with pipe cleaners; Decorating jerseys; Creating fingerprint animals
• Science & Sensory: Making Mystery Goo; Experimenting with moving substances down an incline; Investigating different ways balls bounce; Using the sense of smell to investigate like animals
• Dramatic Play: Pretending to be sports announcers; Airport play; Pretending to move like different animals during songs and rhymes
• Math and Manipulatives: Measuring the circumference of different sports balls, Sorting seashells; Creating animal patterns

 

Prekindergarten

Prekindergarten will follow the same Summer Camp themes as Preschool.  Sample activities include:

• Library and Language Arts: Writing stories about different types of movement; Creating trading cards; Creating animal word-search puzzles
• Creative Arts:  Making paper airplanes; Creating geometrical shapes with pipe cleaners; Decorating jerseys; Creating fingerprint animals
• Science & Sensory: Making Mystery Goo; Experimenting with moving substances down an incline; Investigating different ways balls bounce; Using the sense of smell to investigate like animals
• Dramatic Play: Pretending to be sports announcers; Airport play; Pretending to move like different animals during songs and rhymes
• Math and Manipulatives: Measuring the circumference of different sports balls, Sorting seashells; Creating animal patterns