Rose's House on Childcare

Saturday February 27, 2010

2010-02-28T08:32:00.000-05:00

Replacing the light bulbs in the playroom.

Books we enjoyed today.

Friday February 26, 2010

2010-02-26T22:00:00.000-05:00

Puzzle Fun

Flannel Play Set

Gears! Gears! Gears!

Babies

Mosaics

Walking the Dinosaur

Kitty Love

Books We Enjoyed

Monday February 22, 2010

2010-02-22T22:06:00.000-05:00

The six little ones sitting on the couch are all one year old. It is not often that we get all six of our one year old little ones here at once so and I wanted to get a picture of them all together while I had the chance.

Books we enjoyed today.

Sunday February 21, 2010

2010-02-21T22:45:00.000-05:00

Pictures from our day.

Here these two little girls wanted to go up the steps and I told them no. Normally we don't play in this area but we needed a change of scenery this afternoon.

Friday February 19, 2010

2010-02-21T22:25:00.000-05:00

A few pictures from our day.

Books we enjoyed.

Thursday February 18, 2010

2010-02-18T22:27:00.000-05:00

A few pictures from our day.

Books we enjoyed today.

Notes from Wednesday February 17,2010

2010-02-18T22:01:00.000-05:00

A few photos from our day.

Books we enjoyed.

Notes from Tuesday February 16, 2010

2010-02-16T22:23:00.000-05:00

Just a few pictures from our day.

Gotta love this outfit - girl's winter hat and sandals!

Books we enjoyed.

Notes from Monday 2/15/10

2010-02-15T23:16:00.000-05:00

Amazingly today the school kids went back to school. Granted, there was a last minute two hour delay that threw everyone into a frenzy of unexpected adjustments, but they did go back to school. For the first time this month.

Here are a few pictures from our day.

Gears!

Coloring

Alphabet Bears

Mosaics

And the books we enjoyed today.

How to Catch a Heffalump

Noah Lift A Flap

In the Kitchen

Bear Opposites

The Cat in the Hat

Tasty Treats

Circles

Notes from Friday February 12, 2010

2010-02-13T15:20:00.000-05:00

Puppet Show.

Reading Books

Talking Things Over

Playing Horsie

Playing With Playdough

Crafts

And just hanging out being goofy.

Please, No More Snow

2010-02-11T20:53:00.001-05:00

So far this month public schools in our county have not been open one single day. And this means that the kids who are usually here before and after school have been here all day instead. Which means I am too busy taking care of kids to write about taking care of kids.

We've had lots of fun. But there has definitely been more chaos as well. More need for me to try to be in three different places at once, dealing with the needs of lots of different ages and personalities and backgrounds all at the same time.

And speaking of ages - it's amazing how much drama four preteen/early teen girls can live through in a single day. It's exhausting just to observe!

And once again, there is no school tomorrow. So once again our day will be bit crazy. But it will be fun, and interesting, and creative and hilarious I'm sure. Anything but boring.

But please, next week, can we just not have any snow. I miss my old routine.

Menu Wednesday February 10, 2010

2010-02-10T07:59:00.000-05:00

Breakfast - Cereal, Milk, Juice

Snack - Crackers, Juice

Lunch - Cheese and Balogna Sandwiches, Grapes, Apple Slices, Milk

Snack - Homemade Bread, Yogurt,

Dinner - Baked Potato Soup, Salad, Cheddar Bacon Toasts, Milk

Snack - Tostido Scoops, Super Easy Cheese Dip

Notes from Tuesday February 9, 2010

2010-02-09T22:57:00.000-05:00

Somehow I didn't take any pictures today. Somehow each time I saw something I would have liked to capture a photograph of the camera was never close by.

I do want to share the themes for our themebook this week and the links for the pages. All of our pages this week came from DLTK's sites.

Our first page is the Who Loves You? rhyme. I thought the words and the little hearts on the page were appropriate for this week before Valentine's day.

Since our letter for this week is the letter Ss the next three pages of the book are the Ss songs - The Letter S Song, Do You Know the Sandwich Man, and A Silly Slippery Snake. We also have the letter Ss Template. Because our color for this week is orange I colored the Ss template orange and also included the orange Color Buddy coloring page.

We review this book at least once a day all wee. I try to do it twice a day so that the kids on both day and evening shifts benefit from it. I usually try to include a calender page and a sign language lesson in each theme book, but when I was making the books I ran out of printer ink so decided to stop there for this week.

Menu Tuesday February 9, 2010

2010-02-09T09:32:00.000-05:00

Breakfast - Cereal, Milk, Juice

Lunch - Tomato Soup, Crackers, Grilled Ham and Cheese Sandwiches, Apples Slices, Milk

Snack - Chocolate Chip Cookies, Milk

Dinner - Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Cooked Carrots, Butter Bread, Milk

Snack - Cheddar Bacon Toasts, Milk

Notes from Monday February 8, 2010

2010-02-09T09:24:00.000-05:00

After a couple of weeks of being totally out of routine I feel like we're getting back into the groove of things again. I'm feeling better after being sick for two weeks, and I'm adjusting to the fact that school is canceled frequently and I just need to work around that.

So today we got back on schedule and did lots of fun things. Here are some pictures of the fun we had.

Books we enjoyed.

Menu Monday February 8, 2010

2010-02-08T06:58:00.000-05:00

Breakfast - Cereal, Milk, Juice

Snack - Yogurt, Blueberries

Lunch - Spaghetti, Salad, Milk

Snack - Graham Crackers, Milk

Dinner - Crockpot Chicken Soup, Peaches, Onion Garlic Cheese Bread, Milk

Snack - Bananas, Milk

Notes from Monday February 1, 2010

2010-02-01T22:11:00.000-05:00

Snow over the weekend meant we had schoolkids today. It was a busy day but it was also a good day.

Books we enjoyed.

All Aboard

Go Dog. Go!

Happy Grouchy Day

Notes from Wednesday January 27, 2010

2010-01-27T23:09:00.001-05:00

Somehow adding the cushions from the old couch to the cushions already on this couch just make it so much more fun. I call it the big comfy couch.

Books We Enjoyed Today

Disney's Beauty and the Beast

The Little People Go Shopping

Today's Music

Amazing Grace: Classic Hymns

Notes from Tuesday January 26,2010

2010-01-27T18:43:00.001-05:00

Books we enjoyed today.

Elmo's Alphabet

Ten Apples Up On Top

Notes From Monday January 25, 2010

2010-01-25T20:32:00.000-05:00

No school today due to flooding in some areas of our county so we had several school children all day. It's always interesting to have such a wide variety of ages all day long but the day went well.

A backed up kitchen sink that looked like this -

made me decide to make things simple on myself today and serve finger foods and use paper towels for plates. Fewer dishes to try to figure out how to wash (or pile until the drain was fixed) seemed like a good idea.

When Doug came home from work this afternoon he unclogged the drain and now everything is back to normal. Or as normal as it ever gets around here.

Here are some more pictures of the fun we had today.

Even the "big kids" enjoyed the playdough.

Mosaic fun.

Building blanket tents.

Computer time.

Reading is always good.

Here are some of the books we enjoyed today.

Baby's 123 Neil Ricklen

Mickey Mouse's Truck Book

Bears On Wheels

Jack and Jill Board Book

Button's Birthday Book

Duck Tales Webby Saves the Day

Learning With Playdough

2010-01-24T23:32:00.000-05:00

Play dough is often seen as a messy activity that is not worth the time and effort that it takes to clean up after. But if set up properly and supervised carefully play dough can be fun and provide opportunity for a lot of learning. . . read more

Learning Centers and Activity Stations

2010-01-24T11:56:00.000-05:00

I've been thinking about our daily sechedule and activities and thinking that I wanted to add some activity stations/learning centers. So yesterday I did some cleaning, organizing and rearranging. And I asked Doug to repair a table for me. And then I asked him to get some supplies from the store for me. And now we have space for six stations and I have plans for two or three more. (Thank you, Doug.)

Yesterday we used these stations for wooden mosaics, coloring, fuse beads, play dough, puzzles and drawing. On other days I can put other supplies and activities in these places depending on the ages and interests of the children here that day.

I think this is going to be fun.

Notes from Saturday January 23, 2010

2010-01-23T20:33:00.000-05:00

Play dough was the favorite activity of the day.

Katie made all kinds of good food to eat.

Fuse beads were fun as well.

When we took the old couch out of the playroom I saved the cushions for the children to play on and they have provided hours and hours of fun.

With all the other fun we had today we only managed to read one book today.

Baby's 1 2 3

Product Recall: Graco Strollers

2010-01-21T18:02:00.000-05:00

There has been a product recall on some models of Graco strollers due to risks of finger amputations when opening or closing the canopy.

The article I read on this can be found here and the list of model numbers recalled can be found here.

Notes from Wednesday 1/20/10

2010-01-20T21:06:00.002-05:00

A few pictures from our day.

Books we enjoyed today.

Terrific Trains

CHOO-CHOO PEEK-A-BOO

Baby's 1 2 3 Neil Ricklen

In the Kitchen Scholastic

Archaeopteryx

Animals Bright Baby

Baby Einstein See and Spy Counting

Clifford the Big Red Dog A Board Book