Academy of Early Childhood Learning

January Happenings: Throughout January we have been busy exploring a variety of topics including balloon art, snow and ice, snowy animals, and the Chinese New Year.  The children especially loved learning about the different states of matter such as what happens to ice when it gets hot.  We learned about snowy animals including moose and snowy [...]

December Happenings The Lords and Ladies learned a great deal of the Nutcracker’s origins and storyline throughout the month of December.  The children have progressively learned The Nutcracker’s story as we have added different characters and scenes to our daily storytelling activity during group time.  We have also been learning about different countries and their [...]

November Happening We explored and learned about a variety of topics throughout the month of November.  The children have been focusing more and more on number recognition through different activities such as our daily calendar time, number flashcard games, and number matching activities.  We also learned that a pattern is “something that happens over and [...]

October Happenings Throughout October we have been exploring the colors green and orange while focusing on finding these colors in our surroundings.  We have learned how to make these colors from the primary colors via painting activities.  We have continued working on our letters, the sounds that they make, and words that begin with those [...]

September Happenings Throughout September we stayed busy learning about the color yellow and shapes.  We implemented elements of each topic into our daily activities as we learned of and created collages, painted free art creations, and went on “hunts” for colors and shapes in our surroundings.  The children especially enjoyed participating in a yellow parade [...]

August  Happenings The Lords and Ladies class has had a busy month with many new and exciting changes!  With the beginning of the new school year, many of our friends moved on to the Knights and Maidens class.  We miss them but know they are enjoying their new classroom, friends, and teachers!  Throughout August we [...]

July Happenings The Lords and Ladies have been busy as usual learning about various summertime activities throughout the month of July.  We learned all about camping, baseball, and seasons of the year!  The children especially enjoyed talking about different camping activities from fishing and swimming to hiking and cooking smores.  We also learned about mixing [...]

June Happenings June has been a busy month with the introduction of water play days and our various outdoor activities.  The children enjoyed learning about transportation on land, in the water, and in the air.  We also took a “Beach Excursion” during the month as we learned about ocean creatures, how sand is made, and [...]

May Happenings Throughout the month of May, we kept busy learning not only our letters, numbers, and words, but also about different springtime creatures.  We talked about the caterpillar turning into a butterfly, families, and things you find in the sky.  We enjoyed celebrating Conor’s birthday with him, his dad, and sister.  Many friends also [...]

April Happenings The Lords and Ladies have been hard at work and play throughout the month of April as we have sprung into this new season of the year.  We have been learning about baby animals, the frog life cycle, and the water cycle as our surroundings have been changing with the warmer weather.  We [...]