Little Blue Jay Training Academy

10/15/2026

Today was filled with ghostly giggles, fall colors, and hands-on learning! 🎃
Everyone used fall manipulatives to trace the outline of a leaf onto black cardstock. This activity encouraged shape recognition, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Some of our Blue Jays also sorted the fall manipulatives by color, practicing color recognition, matching, and early math skills! 🍂🔴🟡🟠

🎃 Sensory Adventures! We brought out our fall and Halloween sensory bins for more hands-on exploration! From scooping and sorting to touching and discovering, sensory play gives our little learners opportunities to explore textures, build coordination, and use their imaginations. 🕷️🍁

10/15/2026

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10/15/2026

We turned cupcake liners into little ghosts, grabbed some straws, and let the fun begin! 👻 The mission? Blow those little ghosts around and see where they go! And let me tell you… the squeals, the giggles, and the laughter were absolutely EVERYTHING! 🤣💙

10/15/2026

Pumpkin eggs and a spooky bananas 👻🎃

10/14/2026

Today we focused on learning to listen to our bodies and recognize when it's time to go potty! We introduced our new red, yellow, and green potty signals to help them understand the different messages their bodies may be sending. We also enjoyed a potty-themed book by Ms. Rachel! 📚 We're making potty learning fun, encouraging, and pressure-free as our little ones learn to recognize their body's cues. 🚦
🍁 Mrs. Faith's Class got those little fingers busy with Play-Doh and stamping! They also practiced tracing letters and shapes, helping strengthen fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and early writing skills.
🕷️ Our Preschoolers mixed math with a little Halloween fun! We used Play-Doh to hold pencils upright, rolled numbers, counted out plastic spiders, and then slid the spiders down the pencils. What a fun way to practice counting, number recognition, and coordination! 🎲🕷️

10/14/2026

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10/14/2026

Spooky spider mac and cheese 🕷

10/14/2026

We’re kicking off Halloween Spirit Week, October 26th–30th! 🕷️🧡 Each day brings a new way to celebrate, get creative, and have some Halloween fun!

🧦 Monday — Spookey Socks
🧡 Tuesday — Orange & Black
🎃 Wednesday — Pumpkin Everything
👻 Thursday — Spookey Hair
🧙‍♀️ Friday — Wear Your Costume!

Let’s make it a week full of fun, laughter, and a little Halloween magic! 🎃🕸️🧡

10/13/2026

Our Blue Jays had another wonderful day filled with fall exploration, sensory play, and strengthening those little hands!

🍁 Our Twos with Miss Ella explored our fall sensory bins filled with leaves, pumpkins, and rice! They practiced scooping and pouring while talking about colors and what happens during the fall season. Sensory play is such a fun way to build fine motor skills, explore textures, and learn about the world around us! Mrs. Faith’s Class got those fine motor skills working! They practiced tracing letters and shapes before bringing out the leaves we collected on our nature walk. The children used scissors and their hands to cut and tear the leaves into smaller pieces, then glued them onto paper to create their own nature-inspired masterpieces. 🍂 These activities help strengthen little fingers and build the skills needed for writing!

🎃 Our Preschoolers brought literacy and fall fun together with alphabet mats and leaf and pumpkin manipulatives! They practiced tracing the first and second letters of their names while working on letter recognition. Then, they joined in the leaf-cutting fun, using scissors to snip their collected leaves and gluing the pieces onto paper. 🍁

10/13/2026

Spookley The Square Pumpkin 25 years of sharing kindness, acceptance, and the message that being different is something to celebrate. We will be listening to a live reading with the author, doing crafts, and watching the movie all week. Be sure to wear Orange.