Weekly Updates (Two Weeks Combined)

Good Morning,

I am so sorry for the delay in updates from last week. I decided this morning that I would update on this week (so far) and last week collectively because we have had a lot of fun stuff going on in Medical Daycare. Last week to kick off St Patrick's Day, we had the Boston Police Pipes & Drums come in to parade around our building and in our gym. It was seriously so awesome!! The kids really loved it and majority of them were not scared of the loud noises...they were quite impressed and amazed. After the Boston Police did their performance, they stopped to walk around and let the kids play their instruments and chat with our students. It was a really special and fun day...definitely not one to miss! After the celebration, I made edible playdoh for our students that was green and very tasty. The students enjoyed playing with it and the best part was that they could eat it after playing with it...some of them couldn't get enough of it while others just were not impressed :-) Here is the recipe for anyone that is interested:

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"This recipe makes enough for a class of 20 students:

Ingredients:

2 Boxes of Vanilla/White Cake Mix

2 Sticks of Butter

Water as needed

Food Dye or Frosting (that is color of choice) *I used frosting just in case students had allergy to food dyes

Directions:

Soften butter in the microwave but do not completely melt it. Mix in a large bowl with the vanilla cake mix. Slowly add tablespoons of water to help mix the ingredients together – but do not add too much so that it stays firm like playdoh. Lastly, add the food dye or frosting and mix all together. After it is mixed and has a “playdoh” consistency, keep everything in the bowl, cover with foil and refrigerate it for 24 hours over night. After it has been refrigerated, you can take a spoon, ice cream scooper, or hands and roll the dough into balls to make it easier to hand out to children."

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Aside from playing with edible playdoh and listening to music, we engaged in color explosion crayola projects, scratch art, and continued working on our collaborative paintings which are turning out so beautiful. To start this week off, we traveled to TD Garden in Boston to go to the Sports Museum that is located on the 5th and 6th floors of the garden. To our surprise, the whole Boston Bruins team was on the ice early in the morning practicing for their big game Monday night against the Canadians. The staff at TD Garden let us sit in the "Patron Lounge" which was a really nice box suite with leather seats and couches. We watched the Bruins have a team practice for about 20-30 minutes, and then continued our private tour of the venue and stopped to look at all of the memorabilia in the glass cases. It was really fun and an awesome experience. The children really enjoyed it. 

Since then we have been continuing practicing our fine motor skills by writing our names, practicing our accuracy with bingo markers, and tracing lines while holding a pencil to fine tune those skills and abilities. The preschool class seems to have mastered shapes and color recognition, so now we are moving on to nouns ~ specifically focusing on animals right now (and the noises they make). Other than that, we have also been getting messy with our paint...switching between printmaking with bubble wrap, finger painting, using sponges, and painting with cotton. It has been a lot of fun!

I hope you enjoy the pictures.... I took a lot :-)

Have a great rest of your week and enjoy your weekend of warm weather (hopefully). We were suppose to get a blizzard today in Boston, but so far I am not seeing anything.

Best,

Allison Aubry