The Infant/Toddler Center Program
At Grace Church, 200 Highfield Lane, Nutley, NJ 07110
(973)667-5446
Welcome to May at the Infant/Toddler Center!
We are very excited about Celebrating Mother’s Day and Memorial Day this month.
We wish all of our wonderful Mother’s (Grandmas & Aunties) a beautiful and well deserved
Mother’s Day! We hope you can celebrate some special time with your loving family.
We would like to welcomeVincentto our Infant Room this month.
We welcome James Beckham to the Toddler Room.
Parent Reminder: Please send in your child’s attendance plans for Summer 2018
if you haven’t done so yet. Thank you!
Plans for the Infant and Toddler Rooms this month are detailed on the following pages.
Have a wonderful Spring…it’s finally here!!!
Reminder…
The Community School in Nutley will be closed on
Monday, May 28th
in celebration of Memorial Day
Miss Patti, Miss Toni, Miss Darlene, Miss Georgette,Miss Nicole, Miss Megan
Happy Mother’s Day to all our hard-working Mothers and Grandmas. Enjoy your
special day. You deserve it! The children will be working on a special Mother’s Day surprise!
This month the Older Infants will be learning all about “Me”. We will be exploring emotions,
recognizing happy, sad, angry, and fearful facial expressions. We will be exploring mirror
activities with stationary and hand-held mirrors. Also, we will be talking about our eyes, nose,
mouth, hair, and head. We will be encouraging the babies to say the words eyes, nose, & mouth
and point to them.
The children will be experimenting with sunglasses and sing a song about eyes. For Dramatic
Playthe children will be playing with dolls and learning about body parts. Also,
for dramatic play we will be talking about fruits & vegetables and have kitchen play.
For our Gross Motor Activities the children will use push toys, ride-on toys, and lots of
yard play and stroller walks. We will also march to music. For Fine Motor activities we will
useshape sorters, crayons, people play, and block building with large blocks.
OurYounger Infants are on the move! This month we will encourage them to creep and
crawl. They will have lots of tummy time. We will assist them to progress by encouraging
them to grab for toys out of their reach and roll over. We will have ballplay and encourage
them to pick-up and bat at small balls. We will also have music time and dance with the
babies and encourage use of shaker toys. Also, we will have fun with mirror play. We will
have bubble play and read books to all our children one-on-one. Our special books include
Amazing Feelingsand Baby Faces.
The special songs we will sing this month include:Eye RhymesHead, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
Miss Chris, Miss Monica, Miss Laura, Miss Rosanny, Miss Elena, Miss Sabrina
Happy Mother’s Day! We have many fun activities planned for the month of May!
.
In Languagewe are discussing Mother’s Day and why we celebrate.
Here is a list of some activities ouryounger toddlers (12 to 16 months) are doing this month.
Math Senses: Exploring shapes, colors and textures using different materials (ex. construction
paper, felt, playdough) while learning about opposites (small, large, soft, hard).
Language, Art, & Social Skills: Group collages of familiar objects while learning to work
& play together.
Gross & Fine Motor Skills: Practicing to follow directions by playing games. Ex. (Ring-around-a-
Rosie, Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes). Learn and practice clean-up song. Painting with water
outside in yard.
Using our Fine Motor & Art Skills our older toddlers (17months and up) are working on a
fun flower activity using cupcake muffin tops. In addition, we are all creating a special Mother’s Day gift to bring home to our hard-working Moms.
We are spending more time outdoors and that is why we are doing many activities related
to BUGS! Yes, we will talk about them, sing about them, and have lots of fun learning about
them.
Combining Dramatic Play and Music and Movement, we are pretending to buzz like bees,
dance like butterflies, and march like the ants.
Some of the many books we are reading this month include “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”,
“The Very Busy Spider”,“My Mommy and Me” and “The Grouchy Ladybug”.