LEGO WEEK!

It's Lego Week here at AOHC!  We have some super fun activities going on in our classrooms, from Lego stamping to Lego counting!  We even have the parents involved with a "guess how many Legos in a jar" game at the front and a Lego man cut out for photos! It's been an exciting week already and it's only Wednesday!

Here are some fun facts about Legos:

– The LEGO® name is made from the first two letters of the Danish words LEG GODT, meaning “play well”.

– The LEGO Group patented the LEGO brick with the familiar tubes inside and studs on top on 28 January 1958. All 2 x 4 LEGO bricks manufactured since have been produced to the exact same measurements as this patent.

– LEGO DUPLO bricks are eight times the size of original LEGO bricks – yet they both connect together.

– On average, every person on the earth owns 86 LEGO bricks!

– In 2012, 45.7 billion LEGO bricks were produced at a rate of 5.2 million per hour.

– The LEGO Group is one of the world’s largest tyre manufacturers.

– Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in 2012 would stretch round the world more than 18 times.

– To reach the moon you would need to build a column of around 40 billion LEGO bricks.

– The first minifigure was produced in 1978. Since then more than 4 billion have been made – making it the world’s largest population group!

– Each minifigure is exactly four bricks high without a hat.

Interesting!

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We LOVE Preschool!

Our Preschool students have been busy little bees this week!  We have some fun new centers set up in the classroom including awesome new trains, trucks, writing/art and manipulatives!  It has been a big week in pour preschool room and the students are thriving and loving all of the new challenges.  

Challenging children's minds benefits them in many ways, but mainly it boosts their confidence and they gain overall experience!

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We Love Our Teachers!

The teachers of Heritage Commons got spoiled rotten last week, and they deserved every bit of it!  On Friday we had a "Spa Break" provided for them.  The received mini facials, lip and hand treatments. 

After their beauty treatments, they got to snack on "Rainbow Parfaits" (with or without clouds)!  

We love our teachers!

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Summer Fun Puppet Show!

IT'S DINOSAUR WEEK!  We had a special guest visit us with a fantastic dino puppet show! Mizz KT and Friends was very interactive with the children and brought us a lot of laughs, super fun singing and dancing!  

A good laugh can be compared to a mild workout, as it exercises the muscles, gets the blood flowing, decreases blood pressure and stress hormones, improves sleep patterns and boosts the immune system. Furthermore, a study by the John Hopkins University Medical School showed that humor and laughter can also improve memory and mental performance. Yet despite the fact that laughter has so many benefits, far too many of us forget to even crack a smile every once in a while, let alone laugh.

Thank you to Mizz KT!

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