Thank you to all the parents for giving the thumbs up to our in-service trip to Tomlinson Park for some sledding fun! The weather was perfect, the hill was snowy, and the everyone had a great time!

This was Jasbir's first time sledding, and Sara is just a big kid - enjoy these candid videos of the staff joining in on the fun!

​Everyone had snow much fun! The Kindercare kids and staff alike can't wait for future trips down the hill as our wonderful winter weather settles in.

​Earlier in the week we brought art outside with colorful ice shapes. We made cakes, decorated giant snowballs, and created gem clustered boulders!

​On another day we brought out colorful water to paint the big white snowy canvas outside....

Stay tuned for more exciting winter activities from the Kindercare Kids!

Diwali is the most famous Indian celebration. This year is took place from November 1st - 5th. The main focus of this holiday is the day of Pooja, a day of blessings for good health and prosperity.

Educator Jasbir made rangoli in the entryway of our Kinder room, and hung lights up all around.

Rangoli are designs made with colored sand at the entryway of each home to offer warm welcomes. Different designs represent different traditional values such as peace and purity.

The whole school participated in the celebration. Some staff made a rangoli at the entrance to the school, which the Kinders really enjoyed.

The children got into festivities by making posters, watching Youtube stories that explained Diwali, and we read the story of Binny's Diwali.

Then, the children got the opportunity to try a little rangoli themselves!

We are very fortunate to have such a diverse group of friends here at John de Graff and Dawn & Dusk to teach us about holidays and celebrations. We like to be inclusive and we like to embrace one another's differences and learn about other cultures! By understanding our unique qualities we can enjoy and appreciate each other that much more!

Feel free to let Kindercare know of any celebrations your family participates in so we can learn more about you, too!

"Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!" is a quote from Miss Frizzle from the popular children's show, the Magic School Bus, but it's also one of our mottos here in Kindercare.

So in the spirit of that motto, I gave the children a challenge; to carve a ghost out of a bar of soap using nothing but popsicle sticks and warm water.
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This proved to be a challenge, as the bars of soap weren't quite soft enough to carve. So, to add a bit of Halloween themed creepiness we colored our water with red food coloring and gave the kids liquid syringes. Our activity went from carving ghosts into gooey soap dissections.

​Besides having uninhabited "messy" play, this particular activity helped the children work their fine motor skills, sharpened their focus, and gave them the opportunity to make as big a mess as possible while still being "clean"! And that's why we called this activity "good clean fun"!