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Early Childhood Center Weekly Update

St. Clair Skippers:

Welcome back families! Happy New Year! 🎉🎉 We hope your holiday's were restful and relaxing, although a little too quick. But we are back bright eyed and ready to go! Bring on 2026! This week our questions of the day were: * What did you do over Christmas break? * What did you get for Christmas? * How does a snowman melt?⛄ * What can you use to build a snowman? ⛄ * What words can you use to describe snow? We had a lot of fun winter activities this week! We played with pretend snow ❄️, painted a winter storm 🌬️, used cotton balls to make winter trees 🌨️, made a melted snowman ⛄, and made our names looked like a snowman! We also have a new friend in our room, say hi to James! His 1st full day in our class we celebrated his birthday too! Then the very next day we celebrated Maddie's birthday! 🎂 🎉 🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADDIE AND JAMES! We are running low on baby wipes for clean ups. We could also use facial tissues, as it's the season, and paper towel. If you could donate to the classroom we would be very grateful! Thank you! We look forward to a fantastic 2026 and happy January! Ms. Alicia and Ms. Amanda

Nautical Stars:

Happy Friday Families😊 This week our theme was Winter Weather During circle time, we focus on cognitive, social-emotional, and language development. We read multiple stories from our library this week. We reviewed the alphabet, numbers 1-10, shapes, colors, and the date and weather for the day. The students get opportunities to engage with the circle time material as well as each other. We have been in the gym riding bikes, running obstacle courses, kicking and throwing balls & having a blast. For art this week, students created a penguin using cotton balls, and a snowflake using Q-Tips! Next weeks theme will be Arctic Animals, and we will be reviewing letter “A” Have a great weekend! ❤️ Ms. Bre & Ms. Daniele ⭐️

Maritime Mates:

Hello Families! Welcome back! We hope everyone had a great holiday break. This week the children focused on the letter D. We worked on their fine motor skills by putting together a letter D for dinosaurs and letter D for duck. The children had so much fun working on their gross motor skills, running, and racing in the gym.. They also played with balls and bikes. The children absolutely loved giving their dinosaur a bath this week. The children enjoyed dinosaur fun in our sensory table also! As always, we enjoyed circle time where we go over the shapes, colors, numbers 1,2,4 weather and our ABCS. All of the children enjoyed circle time and love to sing our "Jump up and down" song, and "Who's here today". We also read "My letter D” and "My dinosaur “ Next week we will be focusing in letter E. -On Monday families need to circle if your child will have breakfast or lunch for the whole week. Please make sure all of your child's items are labeled with first and last name, and please pack warm attire such as hats, gloves, scarves and coats Have a wonderful weekend! Ms. Erin Ms. Olga

Shorianettes:

Happy Friday! Welcome back from break. We hope you enjoyed the time off with your littles. We hope you all had a great week back and have a great weekend! Our theme of the week was winter and slowing getting back into our grove. We colored, played in our sensory tinsel and worked our fine motor skills with building blocks. We continued with circle time, reading ABC, 123, and colors, and a song to welcome all the children for the day. We worked on our gross motor skills this week, playing with balls, bubbles, music, and dancing to our favorite songs. We are still working on washing hands as well as supporting our friends who are not fully walking yet. We would like to welcome Jack to our room. Miss Angel, Miss Skye, Mr. Cris

Mini Clippers:

Welcome 2026 🎉🎉🎉 and welcome back to school. We hope everyone had a great break. The colder weather is here, please provide us with weather appropriate clothes to put in their bins. Also coats, hat, gloves , etc to go outside for walks. Thank you all for the amazing gift, we appreciate you all. This week we have been doing some heavy cleaning in the room. PARENT/CHILD PICTURE BOARD We love putting pictures of our families up please bring in a family picture so we may place it on our board. The children love to go up to them and say mama or dada. This week we have been working on tummy time, rolling over, standing, walking, sitting and crawling. We have been reading stories and playing. IMPORTANT REMINDER: ****LABEL EVERYTHING PLEASE WITH FIRST AND LAST NAME AND THE DATE this is a state licensing rule. ****A friendly reminder to Please LABEL all bottles and food with CHILDS FIRST AND LAST NAME AND DATE. If you are bring in food for child that you have made at home please label what is inside the containers. Thank you DONATIONS ***We welcome donations: with all the cleaning we have been doing we are running low on , Paper towel, dish soap, baby wipes and Bubbles. The children haves loved playing with the bubbles and we are running low on them. WE ARE REALLY IN NEED OF BABY WIPES AND PAPER TOWEL. Please make sure your child’s crib sheet is for a portable crib. Please remember your child has a mailbox outside our classroom as there will be important information going home, and the children’s art work will be the their mailboxes so please keep checking their mailboxes. 📬📬📬 If you have any questions please ask us. See everyone on Monday 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 We hope everyone had a great holiday break ❤️❤️ Mini Clippers Mrs. Holly, Ms. Richelle & Ms. Jenna

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