Making Reindeer Food

Last week we set up a station for all the kids to make reindeer food for Santa's Reindeer. Once they got their bag of food they got to take it home to sprinkle on their lawn on Christmas Eve.

  

The Whole Set Up

Scooping the ingredients.

So much fun!

Great job guys!

Reindeer food was so much fun to make! Hopefully it helps Santa's Reindeer fly a little farther this year!

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AoHC Christmas Program

Our little ones did such a great job at the Christmas Program. All of our classes from Preschool all the way through our school age children sang at least one song and dressed according to their songs. They all got back on stage at the end and sang "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" all together. You never know how it is going to go when you are getting little ones on stage, but we were so proud of our AoHC crew and the great job that they did!

PreSchool One Singing "Frosty"

PreSchool Two and their "Jingle Bells" Song

PreK One Sang out "Feliz Navidad"

"Rudolph" from PreK Two

PreK Three singing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"

TASK rocking out to "Jingle Bell Rock"

Everyone on Stage for "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

After the show everyone was invited back to our enrichment room to enjoy refreshments. We had a so many family members and love to see them all come together during the holidays! We even had a surprise visitor, Olaf. 

Full House for refreshments after the show!

Surprise visit from Olaf!

A big thanks to everyone who came out to support our little performers. We loved spending time with you and your family! Merry Christmas!!

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AoHC Food Drive

All through out the month of November we had a food drive here at AoHC. We decided to give all of our families donations to The Well in Spring Hill. The Well started out as a small food pantry at a local church and has turned into a huge provider for Spring Hill families in need. To learn more about the well or how you can contribute click here. Our teachers love having a contest each year where our classrooms compete for a pizza party. The class with the most items donated wins a class pizza party on a day that they choose. So fun!! It has become a huge competition and the teachers and kids really get excited about it! 

394 Item Total

Totals for each room. 

Our fabulous PreK 2 classroom was our winner with a whopping 113 items to donate. They are looking forward to their pizza party! We are so thankful for such giving families and teachers here at AoHC! We will be sure to continue this tradition next year!!

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FREE Gift Wrapping

Don't miss our FREE gift wrapping this Friday, December 12th at AoHC. Our elves will be very busy wrapping gifts that our families bring in on Friday. Please bring your items in a non-see through garbage bag or tote, with a full list of items included and who they will go to.  We WILL have wrapping paper and gift tags here, but know that sometimes you may want your own so feel free to bring that too.  Include any other instructions as well.  Please drop off items after you drop off your child and pick up items before you pick your child up. If you have any questions please stop by the front desk to ask or shoot us an email at academyofheritagecommons@gmail.com. 

Mrs. Kylee is ready to wrap!!

Let us wrap your gifts!!

We are really looking forward to helping you get something checked off your list during this busy holiday season! 

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Peanut's Thanksgiving, popcorn & pajama day

We had such a fun movie and pajama time Wednesday morning watching the Peanut's Thanksgiving film.  We had popcorn and celebrated Thanksgiving Eve!  The children loved it and also learned about the Mayflower voyage afterwards.  Happy Thanksgiving to all of our families!  We are so thankful for you!!

Thankful For Our AoHC Families

Yesterday around AoHC it was "Thankful Tuesday." With helpers from all over the building at different times during the day, we managed to bake over 100 individual loaves of bread to hand out to our families as they went home yesterday. We had enough left to leave out for our families that missed it yesterday to grab this morning too! We just wanted to let all of our families know how thankful we are that they chose us to care for their most precious possessions, their children. The whole building smelled wonderful and everyone was so excited to take home a loaf of blueberry bread! 

Blueberry Bread...yummm!

Grab a loaf on your way out!

So many loaves!

We love to have extra things for our families just to help them remember how much we appreciate them. We only wish we could do something this fun everyday!!

Check out this quick and easy blueberry loaf recipe you and your kids can make together! Or this recipe for blueberry zucchini bread if you want to sneak in some vegetables the kids won't even notice! Happy Baking!!

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BOP Celebration!!

We are so honored and excited to be celebrating our SEVENTH year as Best Of Parenting winner. This year we won in four different counties!! We are so proud of this title and so thankful for your votes! It is so great to see all the dedication and hard work our teachers and staff put in come to fruition through an award like this! Thank you for voting us BOP!!

Celebration Time!

Cookies and Lollipops

Even ACE wore his party hat for the celebration!!

The kiddos loved the stickers too!

Thanks again for voting us BOP winner for the 7th year. The title and what it stands for means so much to us and only validates what we do everyday that much more!!! We are looking forward to #8 next year!!

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Trick or Treat Fun

Our kiddos here at AoHC had so much fun trick-or-treating from class to class last Friday. Even the little toddlers walked around to visit their big friends for some candy. Almost everyone wore their costumes to show them off to their friends. What fun!! We had them all saying "trick-or-treat" and knocking on the doors by the end of their classroom rounds. They were prepared for Halloween night! 

PreSchool One Friends

PreSchool Two Trick or treaters 

PreK One raiding their own candy box

So much fun!

Cookie Monster & Elmo

Little Toddler Lady Bug

Pre K 3 roaming the halls

All the kids were so excited to show off their costumes to their friends and get tons of candy! They all did such a great job making it around to all the classrooms and following their teacher's directions! All the teachers love getting to see everyone else's costume as well! 

Halloween seems far away, but its never too early to be prepared. Check out this sight for some fun and simple DIY costume ideas for next year!

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Branches BOLT

We had so much fun at our Branches BOLT last Tuesday. We want to extend a BIG Thank You to all of those who pledged to support Branches. Branches is a wonderful organization devoted to helping the families and staff of each of the Academy locations. Since it sprinkled a little on our scheduled BOLT day, we kept the fun inside and had a track set up around our enrichment room. The kids ran laps till they could run no more. Even our little toddlers were delighted to run and run!

Check out our super fast racers!!

Water Break!

The kids loved racing around our enrichment room. They were so excited to be able to run around inside and we were so glad that it was for such a good cause. To learn more about Branches click here. 

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Bike Safety Day

At the beginning of October we kicked off Health and Safety month with bike day. We let the kiddos ride laps around a blocked off section of the parking lot. We had arrows drawn on the pavement and cones for them to ride around. They loved having their own bikes at school and showing off their cool helmets!! During the day, each classroom talked about bike safety and we sent home bike safety tips with everyone. 

Waiting to ride to the parking lot!

Go little man!!

Great job going around the cones PreK2!

Following the arrows.

So cute!

PreK 3 Friends

So much fun!

Hey buddy!

Bike day was so much fun here at AoHC. The kids have been asking when they can bring their bikes back, so I have a feeling we will be planning another bike day when we can fit it in!

Click here for some bike safety tips that you can teach at home.

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