Sunshine Room

Sunshine Room Early Learning Child Care Tendai—Early Childhood Program Coordinator Lorena —Early Childhood Program Assistant

Welcome to February! With all the cold days in January, we kept busy and warm exploring inside. We discovered the fascinated world of ice experiences and we explored the snow we brought in mixing colors with a few drops of food coloring. This gave us an opportunity to talk about and identify colors. We also were excited when the gate between Sunshine and Green Room was open as we welcomed our Green Room friends in our room while we went to their room and explored their activities. Sharing our space and our adventures with them was a precious experience for children because they developed and practiced their independence and self-confidence having the power of choosing where to go and explore as well as walking back to our room when they needed. Children also enjoyed discovering hats, necklaces, crowns, costumes, babies and lots of other choices to develop their culinary skills in the kitchen. We noticed children have been busy in collecting items around the room and looking for containers to fill with so we have been putting out lots of items in order to allow them to maximize their learning experiences in this new interest. They were fascinated filling and dumping the baskets, boxes, containers, bags, purses and trucks available and really loved exploring the pompoms in muffin trays while using tongs, catching balls floating in the water table while using nets and slotted containers being filled with sticks, plastic lids and cd’s. They have been practicing their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination while having fun. We are always in need of plastic bags, if you have some extras to donate, it will be appreciated. Thank you.

Tendai and Lorena