New Year 2010

Holiday Sing-along: After the children perform and before caroling, we enjoy a story.



Each of you, and especially your children, are a huge part of our lives. Long after the last family leaves, we think about you. We share the hilarious, wise, and incredible things your children say or do with our loved ones and each other.

I cannot express in words how grateful I am that you have chosen to be a part of our (Windsor) community -- really, family -- and entrusted your children with us. Your children are the reason we cannot wait to get up in the morning. They are the reason we work so hard every single day, often late in the evenings and on weekends. They remind us how to play, constantly question, and marvel.

We wish you a very happy new year. It's going to be an exciting, wonderful year!

-SS & Windsor Staff

Lei party

Sheer exuberance

Peek into the young toddler room

Sensory experiences: Squishy Bags

Materials Needed:

3 plastic ziplock baggies;

shaving cream to ½ fill a baggie;

pudding to ½ fill a baggie;

toothpaste to ½ fill a baggie

Procedure:

Filled each baggie with a new squishy material and allowed the toddlers to interact with these baggies… while feeling the texture of each substance. Heated pudding and cooled s. cream so that there are multiple dimensions to the sensory experience.

Benefits:

This activity is beneficial to the child cognitively as it increases sensory inputs into brain. They are able to experience new sensations. Additionally, it provides cognitive development through the use of new vocabulary to describe these sensations. For instance, some of the children learned: squishy, soft, hot, cold, etc. 

This activity is also beneficial physically. Particularly, it exercises fine motor development as the child squishes the contents of the baggie around while using each finger individually.

Most of all, it's SUPER fun! We had a blast!

-SS