Animal Embassy – March 2012
Animal Keith brought “Rain” a beautiful iguana, an Egyptian spiney mouse named “Spiney”, a boa constrictor named “Brazil”, a Malaysian box turtle named “Malaise” and “Blue” a blue-tongued skink. Meeting "Rain" the Iguana for the first time We remind the children that scientists spend a lot of their time observing and asking questions. The Young Toddlers carefully observe and touch the animals; the Older Toddlers have started to ask questions...
There’s a Froggy on My Head!
The Story Starts in 2009 One of our favorite parts of our Animal Embassy visits is the chance to get “up close and personal” with the animals. Chris or one of the other animal ambassadors will let children touch or hold most of the animals. There are others that they will put on their shirts — such as tree frogs – to see them hold on or climb. ...
And the Winner Is….CCDC!
A great big “thank you” to the many current and alumni families and staff that took the time to vote for and/or comment on CCDC in the Westport Patch “Best Preschool in Westport” poll. Thanks to all of you that have made the CCDC experience what it has been and continues to be for hundreds of children for over 33 years. There have been many...
Animal Embassy – February 2012
Our friend Pierre the crested gekkoPierre climbing a "tree" Our first Animal Embassy day this week was Wednesday. Animal Keith came with a very tiny snake and a very large carpet phython named “Magic” the children had a chance to hold each and feel the difference. Keith also brought along a crested gekko named “Pierre” who climbed on furniture and children pretending to be trees. We also met...
Animal Embassy – December 2011 and January 2012
Meet our newest gekko friend! Our Animal Embassy visits in December and January included frogs and turtles in many different sizes and colors and with a range of talents from digging and climbing to swimming and jumping. They live in the trees, in the water and/or on the land. We also saw a ferret, a hedgehog, a gekko and the fours saw a duck. The youngest children study each of them...
Coach John – December 9, 2011
Coach John is always finding new ways to engage children and entertain us! He set up two big goals in the Common Space and introduced the Older Toddlers to hockey. Although they loved hitting the balls with the field hockey sticks, the nets became more enticing as the games progressed. Introducing toddlers to field hockey... Plenty of room in the net for some conversation... The preschoolers already had...
Animal Embassy
Hello KD! “Animal Chris” arrived on Wednesday, November 9 with a parrot named “Sydney”, a painted turtle named “Rainbow”, a katydid named “KD” and a Ferret named “Wyo”. Chris gives the children the option to touch, hold or just look, depending on the animal. The children are introduced to each animal and most react with curiousity, some with trepidation and others with uncontained excitement. The older children typically exhibit more scientific curiousity — observing very carefully and...
Halloween at CCDC 2011
Arielle the mermaid arrives from "Under the Sea" Despite the historic October snow storm and all the havoc it brought to our area, Halloween day came and went at CCDC with its usual fanfare. Children arrived in their costumes with many and varied degrees of awareness/acceptance/enthusiasm and brought delight with them every step of the way. There were individual classroom celebrations — including witches brews in...
Lynn Loves Halloween too!
Halloween provides children — especially preschoolers — many opportunities to play, pretend and sing about their imagined friends and foes. Lynn has many Halloween songs in her repertoire that never fail to elicit delight in children and multiple requests to repeat them “again” and “again”. An orange pumpkin growing on my pumpkin vine... We shake them high! Visit Eileen’s Photos to view the complete album. Some of the favorites are Roll That Pumpkin Down to Town,...