January News: Weeks of January 19th & 26th

Announcements

Sproutlings will be closed on Friday, February 13th for Staff Development Day and Monday, February 16th for President’s Day!

Important Key Card Entry Information

Please make sure you have your keycard to enter the building. For security purposes the keycard registers who is entering the building. If you have mislaid your card, please let us know so that we can deactivate it and issue you a new one. There will be a $15 charge for new keycards. If you do not have your keycard at pick up or drop off, please expect a wait. Please do not hold the door open for anyone that you do not know.

2026 Holiday Closing Dates

Our 2026 Holiday Closing Dates can be found on our website. https://sproutlingschildcare.com/calendar/

Peapods

The Peapods know how to stay warm on the very cold days-we don’t stop moving! We keep very busy by walking , crawling, creeping around so we keep nice and warm. We’re using our fine motor skills with the sorting boxes, stacking our rings, and playing with our pop-up toys. We are also learning how to play peek a boo with our friends. We didn’t know it would be so much fun! We enjoyed listening to story books and one of our favorites was Frozen Noses by Jan Carr.

Peapods II

What an exciting two weeks it’s been! Peapods 2 got to enjoy a nice snow day! We’ve been talking and reading about snow. We even had an opportunity to touch the snow! While some of us thought it was too cold, others found it to be interesting. We read a new winter book titled Itty Bitty Yeti by Brick Puffinton. This was a very silly finger puppet book which we loved interacting with. We also celebrated another first birthday! We are looking forward to seeing what February has in store for us, and we can’t wait to get into the Valentine’s Day spirit!

Seedlings

What a busy two weeks it has been! Since we could not go outside, we decided to bring the outdoors to us. The Seedlings had a lot of fun playing with snow in our sensory table. We added arctic animals, scoops, and small buckets to dig through the snow. We noticed how cold the snow felt and learned that it melts if we hold it for too long. We learned about kindness, friendship, and arctic animals. We are continuing to remind our friends to keep their hands to themselves and to show affection by giving hugs or high fives instead. The Seedlings thought it was funny that penguins waddle and enjoyed trying to waddle around the room themselves. The Seedlings also had a lot of fun creating art. We made a kindness tree, polar bears, and are slowly working on Valentine’s Day decorations as well. During circle time, we read Little Dinos Don’t Hit by Michael Dahl and sang “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” We cannot get enough of clapping and stomping our feet.

Little Sprouts

The past two weeks have been filled with so much fun and learning! Our class explored two exciting themes: Kindness and Arctic Animals. Each morning, we started our day with our Good Morning song, practiced the days of the week, reviewed our ABCs, and counted together as a class. Storytime was a big hit! We loved reading ABC’s of Kindness by Patricia Hegarty and Hello World! Arctic Animals by Jill McDonald. Our young artists stayed busy creating handprint hearts and a Friendship Tree. As a class, we also worked together on a giant sheet of paper, using markers to draw colorful hearts to decorate our room for Valentine’s Day. We collaborated to make a giant penguin, and each child created their own polar bear. In the sensory bin, we had hands-on fun playing with snow, which was a class favorite! We hope everyone has a great weekend!

Beanstalks

We had so much fun these past two weeks in Beanstalks! We learned all about Arctic animals! We read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr and enjoyed identifying the animals. We had fun painting with watercolors to make penguins and working our fine motor skills with play dough and stamps. We enjoyed singing and dancing with our scarves and playing with the parachute. We also had so much fun playing with coaches during Stretch and Grow! Over the next weeks, we will continue to learn about Arctic animals with a focus on polar bears and penguins and learn about Valentine’s Day!

Beanstalks II

What a fantastic first two weeks we’ve had here in Beanstalks 2. Last week we discussed arctic animals. We also worked on our fine and gross motor skills by first shaking our paint and then gluing a beak onto our penguins. We really enjoyed reading Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups by Tadgh Bentley and singing “Five Little Penguins”. This week we are learning about friendship and being kind. We loved learning about all the ways we can make new friends. We had so much fun practicing using our scissors and making out class mosaic. Our favorite book this week was Give Please a Chance by James Patterson. We hope you all have a safe and happy weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Saplings

The past two weeks we’ve been exploring snow and ice. Last week, we did two science experiments! What will melt ice faster – sugar or salt? We also investigated whether an ice cube would sink or float. We had fun painting with ice cubes. We have some really great artists in the Saplings room! This week we worked on identifying the letters in our names and AB patterns. We made melting snowmen with puff paint! Our favorite stories we read were Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright and Snowmen at Night by Carolyn Buehner. We’re excited for next week!

Pre-K 3

The past two weeks, Pre K 3 has been learning about Arctic Animals. We made ice cube patterns, where the children had to match the patterns of the icebergs to the color that were on the pattern sample. The children matched up shapes of different penguins, and we counted the number of icebergs to put in each cup that was labeled with numbers. The kids practice writing letters on butcher paper. They had an animal that they moved to the letter they wanted to write then they wrote the letter that was on the iceberg. The children had fun painting with ice and painting with a fork to make a polar bear. The children hammered and chipped away at the ice to save the animals. We also practiced our letters while feeding a shark. Some of our favorite books were 3 Snow Bears by Jan Brett, Immi’s Gift by Karin Littlewood, Over in the Arctic by Marianne Berkes, and Snowy Bear by Tony Mitten.

Pre-K 4

In Pre-K 4 the children have been learning about Arctic animals, with a focus on Polar Bears and Penguins. The children learned about their habitat, eating habits, and other interesting facts about each animal. We enjoyed reading books such as Polar Bear Island by Lindsay Bonilla and Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester. The children have been working on language and literacy skills by identifying letter sounds, counting syllables and matching rhyming words. We continued letter recognition and have been practicing to write lowercase letters in our HWT workbook pages. The children have also been using lowercase letters to write their journals entries. Our math activities have focused on recognizing and counting quantities to numbers 11-20. Additionally, we have worked on patterns, sets of items, which had more and which had less, and sequential order. Next week the children can look forward to learning about the author Jan Brett and Groundhog Day.