Silly Kids

Friends Being Silly!

Sometimes a Silly 😜 Face can make someone’s day! So on this day, we want to share some Silly Faces in efforts to make your day! Enjoy! 

Staying Safe & Healthy

Safety During the Holidays

During the holidays, we at the Academy know that you all want to be around your family and friends. But this year it may have to look a little different. Below I have a small message from CDC about holiday guidelines that everyone should consider.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful and isolating for many people. Gatherings during the upcoming holidays can be an opportunity to reconnect with family and friends. This holiday season, consider how your holiday plans can be modified to reduce the spread of COVID-19 to keep your friends, families, and communities healthy and safe.

CDC offers the following considerations to slow the spread of COVID-19 during small gatherings. These considerations are meant to supplement—not replace—any state, local, territorial, or tribal health and safety laws, rules, and regulations with which all gatherings must comply.

For more information, visit

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/holidays.html

Getting into the Christmas Spirit

Christmas 🎄 Sweater Day!

The weather has been nice and cold these last few days, so we decided today would be a great day to wear sweaters! Hosting an Ugly Sweater Day at school was definitely a success! 

To get into the Christmas 🎄Spirit, we had wear your Ugly Christmas Sweater to school today! Lots of our friends and teachers participated! They all looked so nice in their “Ugly Christmas Sweaters”!

School Wide Activity

Christmas Tree Fun

For a school-wide activity, we asked all the teachers to prepare ornaments with and for every kid to add to our school’s Christmas Tree. All the teachers were super creative with their ideas and it turned out to be such an awesome and filled Christmas Tree. Even our little infant babes created some mistletoe ornaments.

Getting our friends to come to the tree and add their own ornaments was a blast for them. It has been so fun to do school-wide crafts that everyone can participate in and we can see a huge result. This was the best idea yet.

Learning Through Play

 Babies Love to Learn

Last week in Infant 1, Lilly the Frog came to visit. It's so interesting to see how our infant babies interact with Lilly the Frog. Some laughed, some was curious as to what it was and some instantly gravitated to Lilly.

They sang songs, played peek-a-boo and so much more. It’s always a special day when special guest visit and our babies are learning through play!

All you need is LOVE!

 Thank you to all our amazing families for voting us Best of Parenting for 13 years in a row! We wanted to celebrate by giving everyone their very own Ace the frog to take home. 

Ace is the name of our mascot for The Academy. He was named by a former Academy family. A.C.E. stands for Academy Children Excel. We couldn't agree more!!

Outdoor fun!

 Our infant classroom has taken full advantage of the beautiful fall weather.  Not only do they have fun outside but they are also are stimulating the child's sensory development. Take a look at all the fun they had.

Best of Parenting

 Thank you to all of our parents who voted for us to win Best of Parenting for the 13th year in a row! We love and appreciate all of your continued support.

Pumpkin Contest

 We are always so impressed with the hard work all the classrooms do for our annual pumpkin decorating contest. You can easily see the creativity everyone put into their pumpkin.

We place the pumpkins on display so all families had the chance to vote for their favorite. The classroom with the most votes won $100 worth of new supplies for their room from Discount School Supply. Check out all our awesome pumpkins this year. 

Witches Brew

 Our Pre-K class had so much fun incorporating math with their spooooooky witches brew! Everyone had their own recipe that they had to follow. Some of the fun ingredients included bones, pumpkins, vampire teeth and even eyeballs. Once they followed the recipe and added their ingredients into the witch's caldron they had to give it a big stir. Check out all the fun they had.

Click on the link to try this activity at home: halloween-activities-centers-preschool-pre-k-kindergarten

20 Fall Activities to do this Year!

 20 Fall Activities to do this Year!

 

1. Visit the Pumpkin Patch

2. Collect leaves at the park

3. Bake an apple pie

4. Hot Chocolate in the backyard

5. Visit the Nashville Farmers Market

6. Roast Marshmallows over a fire

7. Visit the Tennessee Safari Park

8. Take a hike or nature walk

9. Movie Night – introduce an old classic to your little one

10. Make caramel apples at home

11. DIY photoshoot

12. Make a birdfeeder (you only need peanut butter, a toilet paper roll, and bird feed!)

13. Pumpkin Painting or carving

14. Take a country drive

15. See a show at the Nashville Children’s Theatre

16. Make a Fall Snack Mix

17. Build a blanket fort

18. Visit the Nashville Zoo

19. Check out a book from the library

20. Ride the train at the Tennessee Railway Museum

National Fire Safety Month

 Visit from Ace the Fireman

 

This week at school we practiced all our safety drills as October is national fire safety month. We practiced our intruder, fire, and tornado drills this week. The highlight of our week was getting a visit from Ace the Fireman. He came to our school to teach us all about how to stay safe and what to do in case of a fire emergency. We also watched a video about what the inside of a fire station looks like. It was so much fun to see what happens when we need to call for help.

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