The giggle patch

This fall, from sunrise to sunset, the children will love participating in the art and science of life on a farm. Pretend to ride a tractor, grow crops, and milk a cow. Harvest seeds of learning with this wonderful theme. We start the year off by creating a safe and welcoming learning environment! This theme helps children understand how they relate to the various communities to which they belong.

The Giggle Patch. Skip to content. Author Archives: Giggle Patch. About Giggle Patch I'm a single mommy of 3 kids, aged 6 months, 15 years, and 21 years. I can proudly say I've been a young mother, an average age mother and an older mother. Beat that!!!! I tease my older kids and tell them that they were the crash test dummies for the baby.

As with any parent, I am not even close to being the perfect. I've made mistakes and I've learned a lot along the way. I'm hoping to share my experiences with you and hope to get some feedback and learn from you in return! I have a degree in Early Childhood education and half a degree in Developmental Phycology.

Pretty sure I have earned that other half by parenting 2 teens by myself. As a matter of fact, I think I've earned a Doctorate thanks to my daughter. Parenting a PMSing teenage girl is a seriously intense class! I run small home daycare and I love my job! I can wear crappy sweats all day with my hair up in a pony tail. A note to my daycare parents here, yes, I do have cloths other than stained tee shirts and yoga pants! I get to build with spaceships with blocks, color outside the lines, play wonderball, read Go Dog Go, dance like a silly, uncoordinated white girl with no one to judge There's nothing like the feeling of a toddler climbing into your lap with a big smile!

On a side note, I could do with out the poopy diapers, and I encourage the kids to save the poop for mommy and daddy, but as kids tend to do, they NEVER listen! Lets see, 20 plus years in daycare, times 6 kids a day, times 4 diaper changes per child a day OMG, I don't even want to do the math here! What else? Experience the natural wonders of volcanoes, waterfalls, caves and palm trees. End your school year with a luau celebration and dance to island music until the sun sets on a great year.

Weekly Experiences Week one: What does a captain need to sail a boat? Week two: What can you find on a beach? Week three: What lives inside a cave? Week four: How do people have fun on an island.

Creep and crawl with ladybugs, butterflies and spiders. Hunt for camouflaged leaf insects and a praying mantis. Learn about the parts of an insect. Wiggle with a worm and weave a web of letters and numbers during this exciting bug theme.

Weekly Experiences Week one: Where do bugs build their homes? Week two: What are the parts of an insect? Week three: How does camouflage protect a bug? Week four: Which crawly things live underground? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly like a bird? Birds have migrated and returned to their nesting grounds by this time of year.

Test out your bird watcher skills and follow bird tracks to find a rainbow of colors: blue jays, red robins, yellow hummingbirds and white bald eagle. Transform your room into a nest of learning. Week two: What are the parts of a bird? Week three: What birds live in your backyard? Week four: How are bird feathers different? Pack a picnic and meet us at the pond for a month of learning about frogs, ducks, fish, snails and turtles.

Become scientists and build a pond habitat. Paint with muck, relax on a lily pad and count dragonflies as you enjoy observing how the pond changes throughout the seasons. Weekly Experiences Week one: What animals live around the pond? Week two: What plants grow in the pond? Week three: What insects live around the pond? Week four: What lives in the pond? Take a leap into literacy as we climb inside the most beloved nursery rhymes. Build problem-solving skills while trying to put Humpty together again.

Learn about the Crooked Man and draw a crooked house. Practice counting, sorting and rhythm as you delve into the rhymes that have stood the test of time. Weekly Experiences Week one: What number rhymes do you know? Week two: Who are your favorite nursery rhyme characters?

Week three: What food rhymes do you know? Week four: Which rhymes use the word little? New year, new life. Children will ohh and ahh over this adorable theme filled with baby bears, monkeys, and a joey. Children will explore how babies are carried, how they stay safe and how they play.

Celebrate growing and changing as children also think about how they will grow up this coming year. Weekly Experiences Week one: How are baby animals born?

Week two: How are babies carried? Week three: How do baby animals stay safe? Week four: How do babies grow and change? Winter helps us understand how nature changes throughout the year. By learning about trees and the animals that live in them, children can see how nature adapts to the seasonal changes. Greet hedgehogs, owls, reindeers and mice. Snuggle up by the fire and journal about your special winter memories.

Weekly Experiences Week one: What animals live in the woods? Week two: How does the forest change in the winter? Week three: What do you wear in the winter?