Angie's Academy Childcare, LLC.

December was a cozy month here filled with Christmas crafts, holiday celebrations, and final memories made!

For those of you I have not yet shared with, I have decided to close my childcare.

With my deepest gratitude, I want to thank all of the wonderful families I have been blessed with over the past 7 years. I want to express the joy and privilege it has been to care for and teach your precious children. The memories that have been made will certainly last forever.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has been part of making my business a success. I wish you all of the very best.

Merry Christmas 🎄

With appreciation,
🧡Angie

In November we learned about both Thanksgiving and healthy foods & bodies! The children had some favorites from our weekly themes:

🥗🍎Healthy choices: they enjoyed learning about the different food groups by sorting food from the play kitchen.
🦷🪥All about teeth: the children love putting play doh into big duplos as “plaque” and flossing it out with dental floss. A great fine motor activity!
🍂🦃Thanksgiving: they loved making hand or footprint turkeys and giving them to their families.

We are already in the Christmas spirit! Hello, December! 🎄

October was fun! We were busy soaking up the last few warm days outside on nature walks, and playing on the equipment. The children enjoyed the following themes (and Halloween!):
👧🏼👦🏽All about me: the children made a self portrait using different art materials
❤️🧡💚Friendship week: children worked together to create a paper friendship chain and a handprint wreath.
🎃All about pumpkins: we learned about the pumpkin life cycle and painted pumpkins.
👻Halloween: we had a fun celebration with special snacks, a costume dance party, and fun activities.

Now onto a month full of Thankful hearts (and daylight savings time😄)

September was a busy month! We said goodbye to our school age friends, a few of our other friends started Preschool a few days per week and we welcomed a new friend!

Our themes during September were back to school, apples, Fall, and community helpers.

🍎🍏Apple week- children enjoyed helping make homemade applesauce and painted with apples.
🩺🚒🚜Community helpers- children learned about construction workers, doctors/nurses, and firefighters/police officers.
🍂🍁Welcome, Fall!- children enjoyed doing a week long leaf activity- we collected them, let them dry, stuck them on contact paper and painted with them!

Welcome, October! 🎃

August was a busy and fun month for the children. We learned about the following themes:
🧞‍♂️🧚🏻‍♂️Disney week: Children enjoyed ice painting to correspond with Disney’s “Frozen”
🤠🏴‍☠️Pirates/western week: They enjoyed painting paper cowboy boots!
🪐🌏⭐️Outer space: It was fun to paint with “planets” (marbles).
⚽️🏀🏈⚾️Sports: The children built fine motor skills by playing table soccer.
👑Fairy tales: Some of the children put on a special readers theatre play of “Goldilocks”.

We will say goodbye/see you later to a few friends heading back to school, and welcome a few new friends in September! 💕

Bring on Fall!! 🍁

July flew by! It seems like once 4th of July comes, the summer just goes too fast. The children enjoyed learning about reptiles/amphibians, camping, birds and rainbow colors during the month of July. Here were some of their favorite activities:
🐍🐢Reptiles/Amphibians- we had an in-house field trip! Radzoo came to visit and show the children different types of reptile and amphibian friends. It was a fun visit!
🏕Camping- the children enjoyed exploring in a tent outside and also had fun with a special s’mores snack.
🦆🦅🦉Birds- they enjoyed making a bald eagle craft using their hands for wings.
🌈 Rainbow- we made a class rainbow using toys/supplies from around the room!

We will be soaking up the rest of summer in August!

June was a great start to summer! Our group has grown with our school age friends back with us. We have enjoyed learning about dinosaurs, cooking, and Independence Day. We also enjoyed a fun field trip to the Splash Pad- the children had a blast!

Here are some favorite activities:
🦖🦕Dinosaur week- the children made their own volcanoes and dug for Dino eggs that they had to crack open!
🍽🍳Kid’s Kitchen- they enjoyed making homemade applesauce, trail mix, pizza, popsicles, and fruit pizza!
❤️🤍💙Independence Day- they loved using paint to make their own flag crafts and of course, a bomb pop treat.

Here’s to more summer fun in July!

Angie's Academy Childcare, LLC. will have an opening in Fall 2022 for a new friend to join our group!
*Start date of September 26 for 15 months +

*Structured daily schedule, curriculum, lots of outdoor play & love
*Provider is a MN Licensed Teacher with over 10+ years experience teaching young children.
*USDA Food Program
*Located in Delano, just south of town off county road 17

Please reach out if you are interested in learning more about my program or if you'd like to set up a time to come see the childcare space and interview.

I look forward to meeting your family!

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In May, the children enjoyed immersing their learning into gardens! Each year, the children help plant a garden filled with mostly vegetables. It is so fun to work together and talk about everything a garden needs to grow. Here were our weekly themes with the children’s favorite from each week:
🍓🥬🥕☀️🪴Garden overview: the children loved helping plant vegetables and strawberries into the garden. They also liked picking their seeds for the baggie sprout experiment also.
🥦🌽🥒🍅Vegetable gardens: the children really liked using celery to paint with.
💐🌹🌼🌻Flower gardens: we picked dandelions on a walk and used them for painting with outside.
🐛🦋🪲🕷🐞Bug week: they enjoyed observing the caterpillar friends we have, and transferring their chrysalises into the butterfly garden!

Bring on summer!

In April, we learned about weather and we celebrated Easter! The children enjoyed the following themes and activities:
🌈Rainbow week- we made a class rainbow using different art materials.
🪺✝️Easter week- the highlight was a fun Easter egg hunt!
☁️🌧Clouds/rain- the children liked using shaving cream to paint clouds with.
☀️Sunshine/other weather- we made a paper plate sunshine.

Come on, sunshine and warmer weather!!

March was full of learning about all kinds of animals. We also celebrated St. Patrick’s Day, a birthday, and had our school-aged friends play during spring break. Here are some do the children/ favorite themes and activities from the month:
🐓🐖Farm friends- the children liked painting “mud” on paper pigs.
🐙🐠Ocean animals- the children enjoyed fishing for and picking out an ocean stuffy to take home.
🦮🦜🐇Pets week- the children liked using dog bones as counters. “Can we eat these?” 😄
🦒🦧🐆 Zoo animals- we made zoo animal masks, and brainstormed a list of animals that live in the zoo.

Attached are some pictures form the month and some of the artwork the children created.

Welcome, Spring! Let’s hope for some warmer weather to go with it. ☀️

❤️February was filled with love! We enjoyed celebrating Valentine’s Day together, and we did three author studies as well.
💓Valentine’s Day- the children enjoyed a special cupcake, handing out Valentines and playing fun games.
Eric Carle week- they especially liked the Eric Carle process art activity they worked on all week.
Dr. Seuss- the children enjoyed making their own cat in the hat hats.
Laura Numeroff- they enjoyed the “if you give a…” books and making paper cupcakes.

We also learned about President’s Day and I loved the responses to what the children would do if they were President 😄.

Let’s hope March is a lucky month filled with good health!! ☘️