Join Noah's Ark
In Celebrating Our Young Learners!
Take a Peek at the WOYC themes for each day during the week of 4/08-4/12!
If you have any ideas or would like to share a special music, food, game, book, tradition that your family loves please let your child's teacher know. We would love family members to visit and help make this year's Week of the Young Child another memorable and exciting occasion!
Music Monday, April 8, 2019
Sing, dance, celebrate, and learn
Through music, children develop math, language, and literacy skills - All while having fun and being active! TRY THIS: Find the beat to connect music, movement, and math. Practice clapping, drumming, or stomping to the beat of the music while counting.
Tasty Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Healthy eating and fitness at home and school
This fun, food-themed day is about more than just cheese and salsa. Cooking together connects math with literacy skills, science, and more. With the rise in childhood obesity, you can encourage healthy nutrition and fitness habits at home and in the classroom by creating your own healthy tacos.
TRY THIS: Measure your ingredients while making your tacos! Ask children if they’d like the same or different amounts of each ingredient.
Work Together Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Work together, build together, learn together
When children build together they explore math and science concepts and develop their social and early literacy skills. Children can use any building material--from a fort of branches on the playground to a block city in the classroom, or a hideaway made from couch pillows at home.
TRY THIS: Practice organizing blocks by size! Try building a block tower with large blocks on the bottom and little blocks on top!
Artsy Thursday, April 11, 2019
Think, problem solve, create
Children develop creativity, social skills and fine motor skills with open-ended art projects where they can make choices, use their imaginations, and create with their hands. On Artsy Thursday celebrate the joy and learning children experience when engaged in creative art making. Use any materials - from crayons to paint, clay to crafts!
TRY THIS: Bring art outdoors! Offer dark and light paper, chalk and pastels, and suggest children create their own versions of the day and night sky!
Family Friday, April 12, 2019
Sharing family stories
Engaging and celebrating families is at the heart of supporting our youngest learners. NAEYC applauds family members’ role as young children’s first and most important teachers.
Please see your child's teacher about Art Show. Donations will go towards our End Of Year Celebration.