Omigoodness, I can't keep my mouth shut! I may be old fashioned but my theme this week is Autumn, and themes change weekly. I read books that pertain to the theme, we are making trees with pipeleaners and buttons today and glueing the leaves we collected at the park yesterday onto papers to make leaf people and other shapes.
My 5 daycare children are learning something new every week thanks to my own silly songs, crafts, stories and teaching them inside and outside AS WE PLAY and laugh and have fun. Children are not robots, children need to play. Why are people so interested in cramming educational programs down baby's throats? I'm very proud that my daycare children graduate with little seeds of knowledge on many different subjects due to the teaching I do all the time, but they also go to school knowing how to socialize, have fun and laugh. It's extremely important. They will be at a desk at school for many years, let them be children.