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". And 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 the gingerbread man. We will discus that we will be making gingerbread cookies. We will talk about the steps we need to take to make our gingerbread cookies.

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

Book: Gingerbread man loose at school.

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

-Letter sounds.

Cooking: Making gingerbread cookies!

Large motor: Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!

After nap time we'll be going for a gingerbread man hunt.