Licensed Home Child Care

The weather is getting colder. If you are not sure how the weather is going to turn, please send your child with a sweater, warm jacket, and a winter hat. When it snows please bring in a snow suit, snow gloves, snow hat, and snow boots.

This month we will be learning about the farm, Native Americans, Pilgrims, the first Thanksgiving, and a little about the seasons and why bears and other animals hibernate. We will be doing art, activities, songs, flannel boards, and cooking around these theme. For the farm theme we will grow seeds, “milk a cow”, and do other fun activities. For Thanksgiving we will be making our own costumes for our feast and pretend to be Pilgrims and Indians. We will also discuss Veteran’s Day. Other things we will be learning are the letters P, D, and F (older children will be going over letters they need to work on); shape of the rectangle (parallelogram too for the older children); the color yellow; the numbers 3 and 13 and counting to 10; rhyming and beginning sounds (older children); the veterinarian (community helper); the shape of Antarctica (which we will learn more about in December when we learn about polar animals) for the older children; read at the older children’s levels; some sight words for the older children, and listening to country music. We will also be learning more sign language and spanish words.

The toddlers will be learning along with us and working on the fine motor skills by spooning and transferring objects; the above themes and activities for the themes; counting to 3; singing the A, B,C’s; the color yellow; names of body parts; animal names, and sounds.

Special Days:

Tuesday, November 1st: Monica’s 4th birthday.Happy Birthday Monica!

Friday, November 11th: Veterans Day Activities

Friday, November 18th: Thanksgiving Feast (I will make a sign up sheet the week before.)

November 24th and 25th: CLOSED Have a great Thanksgiving!

Things to do together: Read books about Thanksgiving and the farm together. Visit a farm. Make a card for a friend or family member together (let your child dictate or write/copy what he/she wants to say). Tell your child about your Thanksgiving experiences when you were a child. Have Fun!