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Little Wonders is a wonderful learning center located right here in Missouri City. This is where talent, imagination and professional skills are being dedicated to the teaching of our young children. We understand that children learn differently. Through observation and listening, we encourage each individual's unique learning styles; while focusing on their physical, educational and emotional needs. All of our teachers are professionally qualified with combined expertise in education, speech & hearing therapy, bilingual education and English as a Second Language. With a low student-teacher ratio, we provide your child with the attention they need. Little Wonders Learning Center is located at the corner of Lexington Blvd. and Dulles Ave. In this center, you will find a number of warm, loving teachers committed to putting children first. This isn't your ordinary day care facility.

Monday, May 9, 2011

All in a Day's Work

So much can happen in a day in our room, which by the way we just named our class the "RED ROOM"!  Colors have been a BIG thing in our room, so when the older children were asking them what the name of their class should be, they couldn't decide between yellow or red, but in the end we all agreed that it should be the RED ROOM.

The train project is still going strong!  We use the chairs, the blocks, art materials, and anything else we can think of to make a train!
Making the train has helped us with our counting skills.  We count how many chairs make the train, how many blocks or what ever else we might be using.  It turns out some of us are really enjoying counting everything, so we are now counting with everything we play with.  It seems that it is math time all of the time!!!

Of course through out the day, we need to sit together and make very important phone calls! ;0)
We might also sit together and read the books to each other......
For some reason we LOVE to take our shoes off when we make our phone calls, but we are such good friends to each other and we always help each other put our shoes on. 
We are having fun using different materials in our sand area.  We love cooking so much that flour seems to be one of our favorite things to play with.
Rice was the preferred material to make this "farm".
Of course someone is always working on art at every point in the day.  We are experts with the scissors now and we love talking about what we have made....
"Look what I made"!
We are using the sand in many different ways......
Some of us use it to create art, make letters by running our fingers in the sand, but most of all..............
it feels so good running through our fingers!
Some of us LOVE to build with the blocks.  This is a house for a monkey and a cow........
Only the monkey could fit, so .......
"the cow got mad and broke the house"!!!

Please feel free to talk to the teachers about the projects.  The children are writing, counting, drawing, and creating so much, we would love to share the work with you!



Sunday, April 17, 2011

All Aboard to the Beach!

This is "The Beach"!  The children found these pieces of paper with different colors and textures, and before we new it, they were calling it the beach!
They are also dressing up and saying that they are going to the beach.  What will we see, what will we do??????  We can't wait to find out!
At the same time, some of the children have expressed an interest in trains.  We have made several art pieces with trains, and now we have boxes in our class to make our own.
We are reading more books on trains, and looking at each part of the train to see where we would like to put those parts on our train.


We will also be dyeing egg shells to fill with confetti on Wednesday.  Please bring in any number of shells that you could collect before that day.  Information on our egg hunt is located on the flyer by the classroom.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Birthday Fun on Friday, April 15th

We have so many birthdays this month! We are having so much fun celebrating, and this Friday, one of the parents has arranged for some special visitors!



EJC Farms will come for one of our children's birthday parties, and they are bringing a petting zoo as well as a pony carousel!



The party will be from 2 - 4 so please make sure you sign the permission slip to allow your child to participate in petting and riding the animals.

They are located at the front computer and by your child's classroom.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Our Blooming Art

 This beautiful art piece inspired a new area in our room..............




The children have started showing a love for flowers and all of the colors they can be...........

Our art director helped arrange this art area to inspire the children to make more pieces, and continue the conversations about flowers.
They have all been so busy and now we are ready for our spring planting! 
Our art work will be up soon for everyone to admire!

This week, we are preparing the garden with our compost!  The garden should be ready for planting by the end of this week, and the children can begin bringing in plants, seeds, or trees for our garden beginning on Monday, April 11th.
Each year the garden seems to be getting better and better, and we have been able to use our herbs, fruits and vegetables in our lunches and snacks!
We can't wait to see what luck we have this year.  The children are welcome to bring in any special gardening tools, books, or any other materials that might help with this project.

Let us know if you have any questions!


Friday, March 18, 2011

Honey Make My Morining Muffins

Honey Make My Morning MuffinsThese muffins were easy to make like the recipe said, but ours came out extra moist because Jonathan put our whole pan of muffins into the sink and turned the water on!!!!!!!  So we had a tad more extra liquid than the recipe called for! ;0)


These muffins are easy to make and they are very moist.

Makes 10-12 muffins

1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
1 egg, beaten
2-1/2 cups buttermilk baking mix
In a medium bowl, combine milk, honey and beaten egg; mix well. Add baking mix and stir until moistened. Spoon into greased muffin tins. Bake at 400°F for 18 - 20 minutes.



We all helped make the recipe.............
Jack especially liked smashing the egg open with the spoon!  That was fun ;0)  It took a few minutes to get the egg shells out of the bowl!
But when we were good to go, he got to stirring.........
and so did the rest of us..........
we all greased the pan......
filled up the muffin tins,.........

and then topped our beautiful Morning Muffins with honey and butter............. MMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm
Only one out of our whole class did not eat the muffins!  They were extra moist thanks to Jonathan ;0)  And we highly recommend everyone trying out this delicious simple recipe for themselves at home.  If you need help, you have an expert at the house to help you!!!!
Some of us liked them so much that we ate two at a time!