Celebrating Week of the Young Child!

This week at Community United Child Care Centers, we are celebrating Week of the Young Child.  Read below some information from http://www.naeyc.org/woyc to find out more about Week of the Young Child and what it means! :)

The Week of the Young Child™ is an annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The purpose of the Week of the Young Child™ is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs. The 2013 Week of the Young Child™ is April 14–20.

As many of you know, I work at Community United Child Care Center, which is a NAEYC Accredited Learning Center.  Alot of daycares/learning centers are not NAEYC Accredited; therefore, they do not receive special funding as well as base their instruction around a complete curriculum.

Community United Child Care Centers is a NAEYC Accredited Learning Center that receives special funding to provide our students with the best education possible.  We also center all of our learning around a complete curriculum called Creative Curriculum Gold.  This is the curriculum I use when designing my lessons (to teach) for each week.  

Community United Child Care Centers is celebrating as a school this week, having theme days for each day of the week as well as providing special treats for the students and staff!  Here are some of the fun things we are doing this week!

Monday: Career Day (I dressed up as a doctor...thanks Brie for the white coat!) 
Tuesday: Purple Day (Purple is the theme color for Week of the Young Child)
Wednesday: Crazy Sock Day (I wore crew socks that were crazy colors and each sock was different!)
Thursday: Western Day (Dress up like a cowgirl/cowboy)
Friday: Neon Day (Wear bright colors!!!)

Those are the theme days for the week. 

We also have special treats such as ice cream for the kids, donuts and pizza for the staff, and also a nice thank you/candy treat from my bosses about the wonderful work they think I am doing for my classroom!  It meant a lot to receive such a nice thank you from my bosses after only working for them for 3 months!

Such a nice thank you!

We are celebrating like crazy in preschool this week, helping the students realize that THEY ARE the reason we teach and THEY ARE the future.  On Monday, we did a fun activity that made them really think about a certain dream they had.  I found this activity and I thought it would be great for my students because they really think about the future alot and they have great aspirations and dreams that I get to hear about ALOT :)  Below is a picture of our wall outside (decorated in purple) of the student's dreams.  I loved how this activity turned out and my students did an awesome job with it!

Some dreams that were written on their clouds were: to be a firefighter, policeman, princess, doctor, engineer, shark catcher, fish catcher, hockey player, teacher :), and one of the cutest ones that almost made me cry was said by a four year old and he stated that his dream was to save animals.  Clearly, the cutest activity I think I have EVER done with my students. :)

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

One child's dream :)!

Remember, this is the week to celebrate kids! So get out there and support our kids in everything they do!! They are truly the best and I am lucky enough to call thirty four and five year olds MY students!!! :)

Thanks all for listening.  Until next time, stay safe. <3