Spirit week, Holi!

This year, we thought it would be fun to partner up with the two preschool rooms and join them in a spirit week! We had a different theme each day for the kids and teachers to dress up and come to school in fun outfits! The kids had a blast coming to school and seeing the neat outfits and crazy hairstyles their friends were wearing! Thank you to our parents for helping your child dress up and celebrate spirit week to the fullest! They all looked so cute :)

Hat and tie day:




















Crazy hair day:




















Disney/ Hero imagination day:




















Swim suit/water play day:




















Eating our yummy apple juice popsicles:














Celebrating Holi was a lot of fun for the kids! Holi is the celebration of colors, and it's a festival celebrated during spring time. Not only did the kids have a blast coloring each others faces and throwing the powder onto our white paper to see the cool colors, it also tied into our theme for the month which is "colors". We had a variety of different colors which made it fun for the kids to practice reviewing their colors.



















We have so much fun each day with your beautiful children :) Thanks for sharing them with us!

Love, Rose Room

Easter, Planting grass seeds!

Happy Easter Rose Room family and friends! Our children had the opportunity to hunt for Easter eggs! It was very cute to watch our kids so excited to find the colorful plastic eggs and seeing their faces when they put them into their bags :) Our kids decorated their very own bags with stickers and crayons which they used to collect their eggs. After our Easter egg hunt, we all got to eat some juicy watermelon! It was very delicious :) Thank you to our parents for coming and helping out with our Easter egg hunt!

Decorating our Easter bags










Hunting for our eggs



































Eating our delicious watermelon
















Our children have been enjoying the beautiful weather outside, so we decided that it would be a good idea to start a planting activity! We planted grass seeds and have been having fun watching the grass grow! We used a shovel to put soil into our cups, and seeds on top. Last, we added some water and waited to see what would happen. The kids' pictures are on the outside of the plastic cups so they can recognize which one is their plant!























Grass is growing :)
















Happy Easter!
Love, Rose Room

Let's All Save Water!

Creative Minds has always tried to be as “green” as possible, because our curriculum of respect includes respect for our environment. With the governor’s new water restriction rules and the worsening California drought, we have brainstormed a few new ideas to help even more. Please help us out by:

1. Bringing a reusable water bottle or sippy cup of water for your child every day. 
This will save us a lot of disposable cups and/or dishes to wash, and will avoid throwing out the remaining water whenever children pour more into the cup than they can finish at one time. We can refill your child’s water bottle as needed and take it outside with us when we play outdoors.

2. Packing lunch in microwavable containers.
This means glass or heavy-duty microwave-safe plastic. This will prevent making additional dishes to wash when we have to transfer the food to a microwavable plate. 

3. Remembering to bring your own blanket every Monday, and bring it home every Friday, for children who nap here at school.

When you forget, we do have extra school blankets, but they have to be washed if they’re used even once. That generates a lot of extra laundry.

These things help reduce our total “water footprint” for everyone. If you have other ideas, we’re all ears, because the drought is a big deal for everyone. Thank you all for helping our state to conserve water!