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/Preschool: We will sing "Who came to daycare today...." We will go over our helping hands, calendar, weather, and how we feel today? We will continue talking about bugs, today's bug is Ants!! We will discuss some fun facts about ants. We will read about them.

Book: Ants

Skills: Cognitive, motor development, approaches to learning:

-Preschool/toddlers: Shapes and colors.

-Toddlers/preschool: We will be practicing counting on our calendar, and more.

-Preschool: Letter of the week: G, g

-Word of the week: Bugs

-Preschool: Practice zipping, shoe tying, and buttoning buttons. (Main focus)

Art: Circle ants

Large motor: Gross motor skills are the abilities required in order to control the large muscles of the body for walking, running, sitting, crawling , and other Free activities: (Preschool/toddler)

Ants go marching one by one..