Group Time: Social and Emotional Development, language and literacy development, Cognitive development (Social systems understanding), creativity, approaches to learning. (Preschoolers and toddlers) While welcoming our preschoolers to daycare, we will be also encouraging the toddlers to sit down with us and participate as well.

Toddlers: Welcome back friends!! This week, we are going be doing a lot of gingerbread man week! Songs and books and other fun stuff.

Preschool: We will go over our helping hands, calendar, weather, and how we feel today? Just like my first group, welcome back friends, we'll discuss the gingerbread man. Today I will be asking the children "If they where the gingerbread man (or girl), who would they run away from?".......

Song: Who came to daycare today....Five little gingerbread men..

Book: The Gingerbread man

Skills: Cognitive development, motor development, approaches to learning, language and literacy development. (Preschoolers)

-Our word of the week:

-Letter of the week: "V, v".

-Color of the week: Brown for the gingerbread man

-Number of the week: 12

-Rhyming day.

Art: (Creativity)  As a group (toddlers and preschool) we will create a wall gingerbread house. We will tape a large piece of paper onto the wall and add different shapes and color on it to create a gingerbread house.

Large motor: Dice game with movement..