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Hello! We are excited for you to join the Growing Sprouts Two- Year-Old classroom.

We are open Monday through Friday from 7:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
We are closed on major holidays such as Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, Memorial Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day, and Independece Day.

We offer educational and play-based childcare and are excited to meet you!

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Learning and Skills:
Storytelling, patience, communication, comprehension of vocabulary, reading, imagination, and independence.

Featured Activity:

Title of Book: John’s Camping Adventure

Author: JoAnn M Dickinson

Illustrator: Daria Shamolina

Year: 2022

Publisher: Two Sweet Peas Publishing

Story Summary: John's Camping Adventure: A Kids Book About Family Time And Nature. This Fun Camping Book is the first in this new series about a young boy experiencing camping and traveling to unique places. It is a colorful and fun, rhyming picture book teaching children about nature, family time, and new adventures with friends. Your child will fall in love with John and his love of nature while he experiences new firsts in his life like catching a fish, hiking with nature, and collecting keepsakes. But most of all John loves the family time spent together on weekends. This series will include John and his family experiencing places they have never been before Crab Run Beach, and other great places that everyone can enjoy while creating their own camping adventures. This book will expand children's imagination and critical thinking about other places to visit and learn about nature, and animals while enjoying the beauty of many unique places.

Story Based Center Activity: Rhyme Time

1. We will read the book together.

2. I will have many words that rhyme printed out and labeled.

3. Each child will get one word.

4. The children will go around the classroom and find the other child that has the word that rhymes with their word.

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Learning and Skills:
Cooperation and collaboration, problem solving, compromise, abstract thinking, social skills, and symbolic play.

Featured Activity:

Title: Counting the Fish!

Objective: The children will develop mathematical skills by engaging in a fishing activity.

Brief Description:

1. The children will sit in the chairs around the pond. Next to their chair, each child will have a bucket to collect their fish.

2. There will be blue paper on the floor to represent the pond. On the pond, will be felt fish that have magnets in the inside.

3. Each child will receive a fishing pole. On the end of their fishing pole, their will be a magnet.

4. The children will go fishing in the pond.

5. Each child will count their fish as they catch the fish and release the fish into the bucket.

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Learning and Skills:
Exploration of the five senses, problem solving skills, enhance comparing contrasting skills, discovering skills, communication skills, and prediction skills.

Featured Activity:
Title: Dancing Worms

Objective: The children will gain skills of curiosity by engaging in the dancing worms activity.

1. Get two clear plastic cups for each child.

2. Have the child measure out one cup of warm water and measure out 3 tablespoons of baking soda. Have the children dump the baking soda into the warm water.

3. Have a teacher cut the gummy worms into four pieces the long way.

4. Place the worms into the mixture for 15 minutes. While waiting, fill the second cup with vinegar.

5. After the 15 minutes, fish out the worms with a fork and put them in the vinegar cup.

6. The worms will rise to the top and start dancing.

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Our classroom has a unique layout. There are spaces for each learning center. There is a bathroom in our classroom which will make it easier for everyone. This specific classroom is built for eight children at a time. The age range for our classroom is 24-36 months.

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Learning and Skills:
Shapes and patterns, classification, adding, subtracting, measurement, weight, math vocabulary.

Featured Activity:

Title: Campfire Match

Objective:  Children will gain an understanding of shapes by a campfire matching activity.

Materials: Velcro dots, laminated shape sheets [see below]

Brief Description:

1. I will have pre-made laminated cards [see below].

2. On each card, there will be a shape with a Velcro dot on it.

3. The children will have a campfire that has a shape as the flame.

4. The child will match the campfire shape to the regular shape.

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Learning and Skills:
Promotes interaction, critical thinking, develop hand- eye coordination, learn a sense of identity, communicate their ideas, describe their artwork, and develop self-esteem.

Featured Activity:

Title: Fireflies

Materials:

·         Recycled water bottles.

·         Pre-made wing sheet.

·         Crayons.

·         Black pipe cleaner.

·         Googly eyes.

·         Glow Sticks.

Brief Description:
The children will create their own firefly with simple materials.

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Our classroom's special feature includes out quiet time privacy cube. The child can go into the cube which has a soft cushion. The children can sit in the cube and read books or just take a moment to relax.

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Learning and Skills:
Pincer grasp skills, hand-eye coordination, large and fine motor skills, problem solving skills, communication skills, measurement, and imagination.

Featured Activity:

Title: Campfire

Objective: The children will develop social skills like cooperation and sharing by engaging in making a campfire.

Brief Description:

1) We will wrap black paper around blocks then put the blocks in the bucket.

2) We will then use large “brick” blocks to make a circle around the bucket.

3) Next, we will get red, orange, yellow, and white tissue paper.

4) We will put all the tissue paper in with the blocks.

5) Last, we will sit on the brick blocks and sit by the fire to warm up.