This is the Jibber Jabber News Wire. It is our online connection with the families that allow us the privilege of spending our days with their children. This newsletter is where we share funny stories and exciting events that take place while your children are in our very unique childcare. We will allow them opportunities that not every child would be allowed to have to explore new things in their world at a young age. We love to watch them investigate and see what happens as they try new experiences and gain so much knowledge. Please take a look and see all of the fun we have been having while we learn and get ready for school.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Happy Chinese New Year!

Gung hat fat choy! Happy Chinese New Year!
What a fun and exciting holiday to learn about! The bright colors and cool animals make this a favorite holiday to celebrate at Jibber Jabber!

We started our week off by making paper lanterns! 


Sammy got to practice cutting!



Bryce loves using poof balls!




Lilly and Joseph love to squish the glue!
They came out beautiful!

Our next activity was practicing our Chinese writing! We traced out the characters to spell "gung hay fat choy!" Then all the kids practiced saying it and there were a lot of giggles!




Our next activity was making paper fans! This is always a fun time! The kids get to use their imagination and draw all kinds of animals and dragons!



This year we found a fun craft for making dragons with hand prints! Everyone loves to get theirs hands painted!





"Roar!" say the dragons!



Animal calendars were next on our list!
We got to learn what animal goes with which year and which year everyone was born!



Our next activity was water colors! We got to use them to paint a dragon mask!
It was fun to paint and even more fun to run around acting like dragons for the afternoon!





Our last activity for this theme was to make Chinese drums! 
We used the symbol for "horse" since we are in the year of the horse! 
The kids got to practice stringing beads and making music! Fun for everyone!




We loved our Chinese New Year week!
Gung Hay Fat Choy!










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