4th Annual Mud Day!!

Last Thursday we had our 4th annual mud day at AoHC! Most of the kids loved squishing and stomping in the mud! We had a table of mud to squish and dig in, a bucket of mud to paint on a huge banner with, and a mud puddle to stomp in and make footprints. There were a couple of hesitant kiddos, but most of them were covered head to toe in MUD!!

Myleigh testing out the mud

Muddy Kate

Pk1 loving digging in the mud!

Mikhaila showing off her muddy hands!

Jackson loved the mud!

Ava splashing in the muddy water.

Splash, splash!

Sweet Franklin

Cambry loved the mud!

Our teachers were such good sports about cleaning up
after mud day we made "mud" treats for them :)


Click here to see the recipe to make your own cup of dirt at home.

Mud Day is always so much fun! It is so important to let kids get messy even if it is a challenge to clean up. Visit this website to learn more about the importance of sensory play and why we love to integrate it here at the Academy of Heritage Commons!

Huge thanks to Ms. Sarah Jones of Sarah Jones Portraits for taking these amazing photos of our kids! To see these and all the others from mud day at AoHC you can visit her blog or facebook page.

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Spray Painting Fun

Our PreK 2 kiddos spray painted outside for their art project today. Ms. Kristy and Mrs. Renee allowed them to pour water and paint into a spray bottle then mix it up. The water thinned out the paint enough to allow the kids to spray the paint mixture on their paper. Some of them drenched their paper while other chose to just spray a couple times. What a beautiful day for a fun art project outside! 

Cam and Mrs. Renee

Lilly making her paint creation.

Annabelle getting the hang of spraying with the bottle.

Wow!!

PreK 2 Creations

PreK 2 loved being outside to do their art project today. This was a great way to implement our High Reach Learning Curriculum into a daily art activity. Our weekly theme is "water moves in many ways" and this was a perfect example of how water (with a little paint too) can move! Our AoHC teachers are so great at coming up with ways to make learning SO fun!

Click here for a website full of diy instructions for this and many other fun art projects you can do at home!

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The FISH Guy Visits

Last Friday we had Mr. Tim, The Fish Guy come and visit our school. He showed us a starfish, an eel, and a clown fish up close. We even got to touch the starfish! Mr. Tim taught us so many neat facts about these amazing creatures. He also had the starfish do a trick for us. When he put him down in shallow water he crawled to the side of the tank and almost flipped over onto his back searching for something else to cling to once he reached the top of the water. Pretty cool! 

Showing off the starfish.

Wow!

Learning so much from Mr. Tim.

Touching the Starfish.

Even our Toddlers checked them out!

We loved the creatures!

HUGE thanks to Mr. Tim for taking time out of his busy Fish Guy schedule and showing us his ocean friends!

To learn more about our program and the activities we do click here.

Frozen PreK Prom

Last Friday night we had so much fun celebrating our future kindergartners at their PreK Prom! Since "Frozen" has been such a phenomenon we decided to go with that theme. We had pin the nose on the Olaf, a "Do you want to build a snowman?" station, a frozen candy bar, and a photo booth with props. Our PreK 3 teacher, Mrs. Jessie complied a slideshow of her kids throughout the school year and even found a couple pictures on the computer of the kiddos who have been here since they were babies. 

The photo booth, stage and pin the nose on Olaf.

Chloe, Cambry, Caroline, Alayna, and Louisa
posing with our cutout Anna and Elsa.

Ava getting all ready for "Pin the nose on Olaf"

Olaf and one round of his noses.

The parents watching the special slide show.

       A few minutes after the party started Anna and Elsa made a surprise visit and not only sang songs with our kiddos, but also did amazing face painting! 

They were all so surprised to see Anna and Elsa!!

Greeting and hugging the two princesses. 

Singing "Let it go!"

Talking to Anna about her "beautiful hair."

Face-painting by Elsa.

Anna and Elsa 

It was a full house.

Dancing fun!

 We had so much fun playing and dancing the night away! We even had parents that danced and helped to make their children's night so special!

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Egg Hunt Fun!

Our Egg Hunt was so much fun here at AoHC! Our families were so generous when bringing in their eggs!! We had tons of eggs for each classroom and had separate hunts during their outside times. 

Sweet Toddlers

Get the EGGS!!

Ali and Mason found two eggs close together.

Peyton with her bunny basket and ears.

So many eggs!

PK2 patiently waiting.

Preschool 2 collecting their eggs.

Ava, Aubrey & Melinda posing for the camera!

Chloe cheesin'

PreK 3 ready to hunt.

Alayna, Shelby & Finley showing off their baskets.

HUGE thank to Sarah of Sarah Jones Portraits for coming and taking photos of our precious kiddos hunting for their eggs. Please click here or here to see more of her amazing work!

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Week Of The Young Child

In honor of The Week Of The Young Child, we invited the Mayor of Thompson Station, Corey Napier to come and visit our center. Mayor Napier read to our three PreK classes in our enrichment room. He also talked about the new park developments in our community which are based on the needs of the children of our community. It was such an honor to have him here and we appreciate him taking time out of his busy schedule to visit The Academy of Heritage Commons. 

The Mayor and Our PreK Kids!

 Listening to the story. 

To learn more about Mayor Corey Napier you can read his biography here.

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Phases Of The Moon

On Tuesday we had a fun "Phases of the Moon" snack. Our classes each took Oreo cookies, separated the sides and scraped the icing out of the middle to make the different phases of the moon. Our teachers labeled each phase and explained to the kiddos what each phase means. 

So much fun and yummy too!!

A great tool to teach phases of the moon!

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