RAINY DAYS WEEK
Our family went on a beautiful beach vacation last week, because of this we had a shorter week at Pajama Mamma Daycare & Preschool. In addition to our short weeks we had a few late start days, so I don’t have quite as much to share with you this week but there are still a few fun things I wanted to share!
I think our “Lesson Learning” time is one of our most important times of the day, and the kids love it! This week we had two fun papers!
The first was a ABC tracing letters paper. We have 3 different ages here and they all had a different ability with this paper and I found it fascinating.
Walker is 3 almost 4. He loves letters and after showing him how to trace with the letter A he attempted letter B and was discouraged, after a little praise he gained confidence and finished the whole paper by himself. Alex is 2 1/2, he paid attention as we named off each letter and he was excited to name some too, but tracing the letters went a little over his head and he proceeded to color. Wrynlee is almost 2, she has just barley became aware of letters and numbers and calls them all “2.” She also just recently became interested in coloring, so she was very excited to color the rain drops! Here at Pajama Mamma we understand that each kid is going to have different abilities and be at different levels. We are currently exploring where everyone is at and we are having so much fun in the process!
Our second paper was a shaped paper. The children identified the shapes and then glued the rain drop onto the correct spot on the umbrella. This paper was rather easy for Walker, he zoomed right through and knew all his shapes. It was a bit over Wrynlees head, she’s just beginning to become familiar with shapes. It was spot on for Alex, he’s learning his shapes and really benefited from this paper.
We had some pretty cute rain themed coloring pages through the week!
The kids loved making these water color coffee filter umbrellas!
My personal favorite of the week, and I think it was the kids too, was our rain cloud in a jar experiment! So cool!
We had a great week at Pajama Mamma Daycare! Can’t wait for next week!
-The Pajama Mamma
Our first weeks theme was St. Patrick’s Day. Each day during Circle time we learn songs about our theme.
I never imagined myself as a Stay at Home Mom. I always pictured myself as a career woman, even though I never had something I specifically wanted to “Be.” I always enjoyed children, but never had the teachers touch that my mother and sister had. I’ve always been a sensitive nurturing person. I’ve always worn my heart on my sleeve, have always taken care of those around me, have always loved making a fuss over even the littlest of holidays. I always had an empty feeling not having the “What I wanted to be when I grew up” figured out. My sister knew from the time she was 3 or 4 that she wanted to be a Teacher, and here she is now living out that dream. 
