April / Week 2

4/9-4/13

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- MONDAY -
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- Little Diggers 9:30-11am
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- TUESDAY -
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- Activity List
- Soccer
- Picnic on Mercer Island (weather permitting)
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- WEDNESDAY -
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- Little Gym
- Mini Field Trip to the Beach (near gym)
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- THURSDAY -
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- Colored Macaroni Necklaces (we will dye them with food coloring and then string necklaces)
- Intro to Cutting Paper w/Scissors (under a watchful eye of course)
- Lets Bake a Cake (or cookies, or whatever we are in the mood for)
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- FRIDAY -
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- Family Finger Puppets
- Tea Party
- Painting w/Fruit
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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April / Week 1

4/2-4/6

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- MONDAY - HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY to MAE!!!
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- TBD

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- TUESDAY -
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- All About Mae: height, hand print book, traceable me
- Soccer
- Explore a New Park on Mercer Island
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- WEDNESDAY -
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- Little Gym
- Color Games
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- THURSDAY -
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- Easter Bunny Masks
- Easter Egg Hunt
- Cotton Ball Sheep Art
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- FRIDAY - Field Trip!!
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- Zoo w/Colleen and Marley
- Picnic Lunch
(Nap)
-Activity List

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March / Week 4

3/25-3/30

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- MONDAY -
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- Little Gym
- Shape Games
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- TUESDAY -
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- Shape Games
- Soccer
- Luther Burbank Park
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- WEDNESDAY -
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- Little Gym
- School Visit to Meet Stickbugs
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- THURSDAY -
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- Walk (weather permitting) collect "treasures" along the way
- Painting
- Create "pet rocks"
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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- FRIDAY - Birthday Field Trip to West Seattle!
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- Petco
- Toy Store
- Park
- Lunch
- Cupcake Royal for a Birthday treat!
(Lunch & Nap)
- Activity List

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March / Week 2

3/12-3/16

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- MONDAY - All About Mae
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- Height Chart
- Start Hand & Foot Print "Log"
- Paper Plate Face (use mirror to discuss and then place cutouts to create new face)
- "Handy Me" Booklet

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- TUESDAY - Family
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Family Matching Game
- Finger Puppets
- Mommas & Babies
- Family Collage
- Expression / Feeling Matching

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- Mini Alki Field Trip (collect shells and rocks - discuss boats and sea-life)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Name Card (color and decorate)
- Writing My Name
- Sing ABCs & talk about the alphabet
- Silly Dance Stick Puppet
- Painting with a Paintbrush and Glitter

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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March / Week 1

3/5-3/9

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- MONDAY - Shapes & Colors
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- Gym Make-Up Day!!!
- Color Matching
- Shapes on the Floor Game
- Simon Says

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- TUESDAY - Field Trip!!
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Zoo Day! Explore and discuss the animals at the zoo

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- Nature Walk After Gym (collect leafs, etc. for Friday art)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! - Nature Art
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Plant / Leaf Rubs
- Pet Rocks (decorate & add silly eyes)
- Plant / Leaf Magnifying

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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February / Last Week

2/27- 3/2

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- MONDAY -
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- TUESDAY - Day Off
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- FIELD TRIP TO PETCO after gym class

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Traceable Me
- Expression/Feeling Matching
- Fruit Salad

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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February / Week 4 / Animals & Nature

2/20 - 2/24

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- MONDAY - Day Off
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- TUESDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Animal Books & Image Posters
- "Mae's Farm" Collage (on butcher paper, let Mae choose animal cutouts to arrange on her very own "farm")
- Puzzles of 2
- Play "farm" with toy animals (discuss animals and sounds they make)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- FIELD TRIP TO PETCO after gym class (visit Petco in West Seattle, look at fish, puppies, ferets, etc)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Finger Painting Animals (hand print sheep with paint, cotton balls & silly eyes)
- Leaf Rubs (paper & crayons)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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February / Week 3 / Families & Valentines Day

2/13 - 2/17

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- MONDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- What's the Weather?? (discuss what's happening with the weather outside)
- Make Valentines for Family and Friends
- Family Finger Puppets
- Shape Bingo

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- TUESDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Friendly Face Place Matt
- Name Bingo
- Photo Albums (look through and discuss who is who)
- Valentine Cookies for Friends (and for us too :)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- Deliver Valentine cookies with remaining time after gym

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Family Tree (draw large tree together on butcher paper, decorate with cutout leaves and photos of immediate family)
- Family Collage (photo cutouts of family, Mae's house, animals, objects, stickers, etc - create a busy scene together)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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We had a great Valentine's week! She LOVED making handprints for our Valentines, especially the part where she got to squish the paint in her hands ;) We worked on family member names and just words in general. She's really getting better with pronouncing certain words and more interested in trying to repeat things. Banana, raisin, hand and Lola were the words of the week! The way she says banana is too stinking cute! She's also getting really good at identifying shapes. She doesn't really say the words yet, but when I say "where's the star?" for instance, she almost always gets them right. You can really see things starting to click and her being more and more interested in learning new things.

February / Week 2 / Shapes, Colors & Matching (round 2)

2/6 - 2/10

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- MONDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Gym Make-up Day!
- Shape Bingo
- Puzzles of 2

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- TUESDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Shape Mobile
- Color Matching / I Spy
- Simon Says
- Red Light / Green Light
- Puzzles of 2
- Image Posters

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after gym

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Tissue Paper Shape Collage
- Finger Paint With Primary Colors
- Making Pairs

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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February / Week 1 / Shapes - Colors & Matching

1/30 - 2/3

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- MONDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Shape Bingo
- Making Pairs With Shoes
- School Time: home center, blocks

Afternoon Activities:
- Making Pairs
- Image Posters
- Shape Bingo
- Colors Around The House (pick a piece of colored construction paper and go on a hunt for things around the house that are the same color)
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- TUESDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Shape Bingo
- Puzzles Of 3 (cut images of people and animals from magazines into 3 pieces - work together to make a full match)
- Simon Says
- Set The Table (On butcher paper, outline plates, cups & utensils on the dining room table - work together to match the items and put them in their proper place)
- Colors Around The House (pick a piece of colored construction paper and go on a hunt for things around the house that are the same color)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after gym

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Colored Tissue Paper Collages
- Shape Mobiles
- Finger Painting With Primary Colors

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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