Smoky Row Children's Center

Classroom Spotlight - Friendship Room


The Friendship Room this week is officially abuzz as they kick off their bee-themed week! Today, the bee sensory bin was a hive of activity, filled with green “grass,” tiny buzzing bees, honeycombs, flowers, and more! Yesterday, they read The Happy Bee, which had them thinking all about how busy and important bees are! They carried that energy right into art time, where the children used tempera paint sticks while listening to Flight of the Bumblebee. Their table activities were just as sweet! The kids sorted colorful bees, matched honeycombs with their buzzing friends, and got to create on a black and yellow push-pin art board. They also rolled, squished, and explored playdough with honeycombs and resin bumblebees—so many ways to build those fine motor skills while staying right on theme!

Bonus Spotlight - Butterfly Room


Yesterday, the Butterflies had the sweetest teddy bear tea party! They shared fairy bread, yummy tea cookies, and juicy strawberries while sipping on delicious strawberry hibiscus tea . Their teddy bear friends had the best manners and made the party extra special! When they weren’t enjoying our tea party, we were soaking up the beautiful weather outside, playing, laughing, and feeling the sunshine on their faces. What a lovely day full of treats, friends, and fun! 💕

Classroom Spotlight - Sunshine Room


The Sunshine Room has had such an exciting week exploring space as we followed along with the Artemis II launch! Our friends learned about different space elements and had so much fun diving into hands-on activities. We built our own spacecrafts and solar systems, explored sensory materials like moonsand, and used our imaginations during spaceship-themed dramatic play.

We also had some great conversations about the Artemis II mission, as well as space, astronauts, and what it might be like to travel beyond Earth. It truly was a star-filled week of learning and discovery! 🌍🪐✨

Bonus Spotlight - Kindergarten


Our Kindergarten Class celebrated the union of sounds this week, attending the wedding of Qq and Uu. It was a ceremony uniting their sounds together forever, the kindergartners promising to always write a “u” after the letter “q” when writing words. The ceremony was followed by a reception, including wedding cake and a whole lot of dancing!

When you live what you learn, you remember! It was a glorious day in K!

Classroom Spotlight - Rainbow Room


This week in the Rainbow Room, they’re learning about the different signs of Spring! They’ve been watching their seeds sprout and making sure they have enough water and sunlight to grow, talking about different animals that come out, and are filling out a daily chart for how broccoli seeds change! Their new bugs arrived just in time as well, today they discussed how they will be watching praying mantises and butterflies grow before releasing them outside in a few weeks. We’re having fun with spring and can’t wait for the cold weather to be done!

Classroom Spotlight - Treehouse Club


With the changing of the seasons, Treehouse Club spent the last week studying about weather! March 15-21 is Severe Weather Awareness Week. Last Wednesday, our school joined a statewide tornado drill at 9:50 so we could practice hearing and responding to those outdoor sirens we hear each week being tested at noon.
Tornadoes were definitely a favorite topic of discussion and intrigue!
While the daffodils were in bloom, they used different mediums to explore the unique expressions of still life drawings.
They finished the week enjoying the spring sunshine and creating cloud finder windows and predicting and testing out how and why rain falls out of clouds!

It's that time of year again! Dance-a-Thon is back and we are so excited to get our friends moving and active!! If you would like to donate, you can either click this link - https://gogetfunding.com/dance-a-thon-fundraiser-2/
scan the QR code in the image, or fill out a donation page available at the front desk of either the East or West building, thank you so much for your support!!

Classroom Spotlight - Kindergarten

Our Kindergartners kicked off 2026 celebrating the 100th Day of School as 100 year olds! They have fallen in love with non-fiction, learning about a variety of famous people (making General George Washington’s breakfast was a class favorite) learning American Sign Language, writing biographies about a classmate, studying and celebrating the great state of Ohio, creating oil spill science bottles and more! Spring has brought sphero car coding, challenging math including fractions work, a puppet show performance, life cycles studies, hatching pretend baby ducks, stem work, FLUENT readers and first grade on the horizon. Time please slow down!

Classroom Spotlight - Butterfly Room

This week in the Butterfly room, they are exploring a variety of hands-on activities that support creativity, early math skills, and fine motor development! In celebration of Saint Patrick’s Day, the children are creating green-themed art and practicing math skills through festive activities like counting, sorting, and making patterns with shamrocks. They are also incorporating sensory play with green materials to encourage exploration and discovery. The children are having fun using their creativity and problem-solving skills to design and build leprechaun traps. It is a fun week filled with learning, creativity, and plenty of green fun! ☘️

Classroom Spotlight - Infant Room

The infants have spent the last week doing lots of art activities dedicated to the month of March! They also began dressing up in their St. Patrick’s Day costumes, some of them enjoyed it and some weren’t so sure! They will be saying hello to a new friend in the upcoming week and said goodbye to Wade, Anthony and Joseph as they moved on to their journey in the Toddler room! ♥️