Happy Holidays!

Everyone at Little Wonders wishes all of our friends and family Happy Holidays!

Thank you to all of the parents and friends of our parents for making our Winter Festival a huge success!

We should have a slide show of the pictures soon!

Just as a reminder, Little Wonders will be closed Friday, December 24th, Monday the 27th, and Friday the 31st.  We are looking forward to a wonderful new year!

Little Wonders International Festival

"A snowflake from the North Pole"
by Kaelynn

Our International Festival will begin at 3:00 p.m.,

Friday, December 17th! 

All family and friends are welcome to join the festivities!

To kick off the Festival, the children of Little Wonders will perform holiday songs! 
Toddler 1 through PreK classes will all be part of the performance!  This is a show you do not want to miss!  Please dress your child in the colors red, white, green or black. 

10,000 pounds of snow have been ordered from the North Pole! 

Please bring gloves, snow boots, extra pants, socks, a shirt, and shoes for your child.  For more information on the snow party and their rules click on the following link.......

http://www.iceexpress.com/snow_parties.html

Our snow fund raiser is going on every morning in the hallway.  Breakfast and ornaments have been provided by the children and parents to help raise money to cover the cost of the snow.

Our goal is to raise $700, and we have raised $186 so far.

Thank you to all of the parents who have donated money and breakfast goodies!

The International Festival is a great way for us to try new foods, and learn about tastes from around the world. 

Please sign up to bring a dish that represents the nationality of your family!

Sign-ups are available by your classrooms to bring in your favorite international holiday dish!

YUM!

Little Wonders in 002 Houston Magazine

We are so excited about our school being covered in the latest issue of Houston's 002 Magazine!
Here is the link to see the article on line.......

http://002mag.com/wordpress/2010/12/02/little-wonders-learning-center-december-2010/

Parents, find your copies of the magazine around town and make it a keep sake for when our little ones get older! ;0)

LITTLE WONDERS LEARNING CENTER December 2010

Art Exhibit

Parents!

Please make time to view the amazing art exhibit in the entry way of the building!  The exhibit will be on display from December 6th through the 15th. 

The opening reception is tonight beginning at 4:00 p.m.  All friends and family are welcome! 

 There will also be open registration tonight for the next series of classes.  Marjon is now offering an additional class on clay!  All the information on classes will be provided at the show!

See you there!

A Busy Day In Our Class

We are so busy these days!  We have mastered so many materials in our class, that we stay busy for the entire time that we have project work!  Take a look at all the action.........

Several of us have mastered the scissors......

We can cut for hours!  Just line us up with a long piece of paper and watch us go!

"Look!  I am so proud of myself!"

Some of us love to paint!

Occasionally the paint winds up in odd places!  But we always clean ourselves up..............

Some of us LOVE the oil pastels.......

This is a dinosaur that is eating "chicken AND nuggets" ;0)

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, see you back on Monday!

If You Build It They Will Come!

Look closely  in our butterfly garden, and YES, we have a butterfly drinking nectar from one of our butterfly weeds!  How exciting!  Actually, it is like Little Wonders has its own "pet butterfly", because this butterfly has come to our garden everyday for the past week!  What a wonderful reward for everyone's hard work!  The children get so excited when they see the butterfly, and it just flies around them teasing them when they are outside! 

The children have also been observing the butterfly landing on the flowers, and this is a great way for them to understand the concept of how the butterfly eats! 

And, no, these pictures are not from national geographic ;0), Ms. Karla did an awesome job of capturing the beauty in our playground!  We are going to print these pictures so that the children can create paintings of these beautiful pictures!

Once again, we want to thank everyone who made the butterfly garden possible!  This is such a wonderful project and we are so glad that we are having such great results, the children are getting to experience so much from this!

Our Butterfly Garden!

Thank you so much to all of the parents who helped out in this project! The kids had so much fun and it turned out beautifull!

Take a look at the slide show to see all the action that went on......

Sam & Target

Yes!  The children of Little Wonders officially have pets!  We have adopted "Sam" and "Target"!!!  How can you not LOVE the names of our new little turtles????  Isn't it funny that these are the names the children came up with?  We absolutely LOVE it! 

Sam is the small one, and Target is the bigger turtle.  They were donated by Ms. Fauzia!  Dimi and Ereeni's family donated the tank, and Hendrix brought in some big rocks for them.

The children, according to licensing, are not allowed to hold them, so they will be cared for by the teachers and any parent who volunteers over holidays.

  The children will be able to observe them and learn about the responsibilities of caring for animals.

Aren't they so super cute??

The children helped clean and wash the new tank for them......

When the tank was clean, we put rocks and gravel in it.......

And then we put Sam and Target in......

The children LOVE them!  They are located by the art studio.  The children can say good morning and good evening to them when they come in and leave!

None of the staff have any real experience with turtles, so we welcome any advice, materials, or anything else that might make our turtles happy!

Hopefully Little Wonders will keep Sam and Target happy for many years to come!!!!