Scrub a dub dub

For large group today we scrubbed our climber outside with soap and water. The children enjoyed dipping the sponges and paint brushes in the soapy water and washing the climber...some children enjoyed watching the bubbles poor out of the sponges as they squeezed them .

A day at the beach....or sandbox

With the summer like weather the Bunnies have been spending a lot of time in their favorite spot ...the sand box! We have been scooping, dumping and filtering the sand.

A Week Full of Purim!

As you are probably aware, we observed the holiday of Purim this week!  Many activities went on throughout the center, culminating in our school-wide Purim carnivals and parade on Thursday.  Over the past weeks, we have done a variety of activities in the Duck Room to learn about and observe the holiday as well.


We talked about the story of Purim by using a variety of books and songs, as well as a felt board story.  The felt board story included flannel images of each of the main characters in the story, as well as hamantashen.  The felt board was used to provide a very simple introduction to the Purim story and characters to such a young group of children.

We explored the concept of costumes and dressing up for Purim by offering a variety of dress-up clothes and costumes for the children to explore and try on.  In addition to being an integral  part of our Purim celebration, dress-up clothes also are a great way to help our children learn to dress themselves.

The children used stamps, markers, stickers, crayons, and colored pencils to decorate shalach manot bags to take home and share with their families.  We later filled these bags with all sorts of Purim goodies! 

 Using beans and rice, we filled plastic bottles and baby food containers to make groggers to use when we told the Purim story.  The children enjoyed shaking these groggers and hearing the noises they made, but they enjoyed filling and dumping the plastic containers even more!

As a special cooking activity, the children helped bake hamantashen!  One afternoon, we measured, added, and mixed all the different ingredients.  The children helped scoop, pour, stir, and run the food processor.   We let the dough refrigerate overnight, and then the next day we rolled out the dough, cut out circles, and filled and folded our hamantashen.  Again, the children helped with each of these steps -rolling out the dough, placing and pressing down on plastic cups to make circles, and placing strawberry jam and chocolate chips in the middle of the cookies.  They were certainly delicious!

Dressing up in costumes and enjoying our annual ECC Purim carnival and parade was definitely the highlight of the week!  We all had a great time!

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess

Today the Bunny room celebrated Dr. Suesss' birthday with Green Eggs and Pancakes...and yes a couple friends actually ate the green eggs! A special thank you to David Adler, Zoes' Dad and Karishma and Matt Collett, Amanis'  Mom and Dad for helping make the yummy lunch a huge success! we could not have done it without you

                                      

                                 

No-Mess Painting with Fruit

The fruit paintings add a splash of color to the Baby Bunny Room.

What can an infant in the Bunny Room do with leftover fruit? Paint with it, of course! After Tu B'Shevat, there were several pieces of fruit left over from our fruit exploration activities. The Baby Bunnies experimented with colors and textures during their No-Mess Painting with Fruit activity. The infants chose a fruit (lemon, avocado, or kiwi) to use. The teachers placed the fruit into clear containers (tennis ball containers but any sturdy container with a lid will work), added two colors of washable paint, and closed the lid. As the infants shook, pushed, or rolled their containers, they could watch the paint colors blend to make a new color. The fruit left interesting patterns on the paper and the Baby Bunny Room now has colorful new paintings on the art board. Can you guess which picture was painted by a lemon, kiwi, or avocado?