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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
Coach John loves Halloween so much that he celebrates for weeks. Last week, he showed off his new witches hands to go along with his sparkly wig and led the 3′s and 4′s in his patented “Monster Mash”. He also played his “Builders and Bulldozers” game. He splits the group — usally into boys and girls — and they are intructed to be either a bulldozer and...
Animal Keith came this week and brought a few animals — some to touch(but not the face or tail) and some just to look at. There was a a tarantula… a scorpian… snakes…. and a bunny that was so soft and cute! More photos in Eileen’s Photos ...
In addition to the daily activities in each classroom, CCDC offers several “specials” — Music, Coach John (or Pat), Animal Embassy, Spanish and Yoga. There are many photos in “Eileen’s Photos” on this site. ( password protected) The photos capture the interest, enthusiasm and fun of the these enriching experiences. Here are just a few from the last few weeks to whet your appetite: Spanish… Animal Embassy with “Animal Keith”… ...
The summer is a bittersweet time for families in the Preschool 4′s Room. Although the official graduation ceremony is at the end of June, there are many events throughout the summer that mark the end: “the last day” for children who finish earlier than our final day, the last Animal Embassy, Coach John and Music. This year, there were several children that were going to miss...
Nothing defines summer at CCDC more than water play with Coach John! This summer, it was hot — sometimes very hot — and sunny and we took full advantage. Coach John set up our favorite activities — sliding, slipping, running, dumping and squirting –and rarely missed a chance to get in on the fun. If you need to cool off on a hot day —...