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Happy Monday!

Hello Pine family and welcome back once again! We are starting week 20 this week and our 2nd week of the new year. We are focusing on some new magic words, UP and DOWN. We will be exploring these words through music and movement as well as incorporating them into our play. Our invitations for centers are cars and ramps, faux snow, and bakery (kitchen). We will encourage friends to explore how cars move on the ground versus on the ramps, how ramps can change how cars move depending on their positions, etc. For sensory exploration our faux snow can allow kids to engage in language about color, texture, smell, etc. In our dramatic play/social explorations, we can pretend to be bakers and make gingerbread people, which will go along with some new books that have been added to our library. During this time we focused on what to do first and next, colors, shapes, and taking turns.

Today we welcomed back some of our friends that were out sick last week! So excited see their faces today :) We were able to celebrate our friend L's birthday by dressing as a princess, a dragon or wearing her favorite color blue! Happy Birthday Princes L!

Tomorrow we would like to celebrate our friend A's birthday with a special celebration. He loves trains, Creature Cases and the color red. Pick something you would like to dress up and see you tomorrow for some fun!

*A quick change of plans today as the faux snow was a no go! We quickly changed to magnet tiles and polar animals. Fingers crossed for the snow to be a go tomorrow!

                                              




































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