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.

Toddler: We will sing "Who came to daycare .......". We will go over our shapes and colors. We will sing "five yummy gingerbread men". We will read our book of the day.

Preschool: We will go over our helping hands, calendar, weather, and how we feel today? We will continue talking about the gingerbread man. Today we will talk about, when we made our gingerbread cookies, what part are you going to eat first? Would you eat the head? The arms? the legs?

Song: "Who came to daycare today......". "Five yummy gingerbread men".

Book: Gingerbread house

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

-Shape day.

Science: we will make gingerbread play dough.

Large motor: Hopefully play outside. Or we can dance to the bean bag dance.