The Infant/Toddler Center Program

At Grace Church, 200 Highfield Lane, Nutley, NJ 07110

(973)667-5446

Welcome to April at the Infant/Toddler Center!

We want to thank all of our families for returning the 2018-2019 Registration

Application. We are very happy to haveso many of our wonderful children returning

in the fall. There is still time if you haven’t sent in your child’s form yet.

Please return all forms to Lisa Iannini or place inthe Hanging Wall File in the Toddler Room.

We welcome 4 new friends to the Infant Room this month:

Julianne, Darien, Alexandria, Benjamin

JamesBeckhamwill be joining the Toddler Room this month.

We look forward to warmer weather and plan to get outside for stroller walks

with the Infants and the Outdoor Play Area for the Toddlers. Hopefully April

showers doesn’t spoil too many of our outdoor play days!

Happy EasterHappy Passoverto all of our wonderful families.

Reminder that CSN Infant/Toddler Center is closed on Good Friday, March 30, 2018

Miss Patti, Miss Toni, Miss Darlene,Miss Georgette, Miss Nicole, Miss Megan

Welcome to the month of April!
Our infant room is alive with action! We have our infants rolling and creeping

and our older babies pulling up to standing and walking. How exciting!

Activities we have planned for our younger babies…

Lots of tummy time---encouraging the babies to roll and sit unaided.

We will also encourage our infants to manipulate squeak toys and shake rattles and to engage

in mirror play. We also will encourage play with soft blocks and soft books to explore textures.

We will introduce the infants to puppet play and also ball and bubble activities.

Music & Language Activities—dancing to music while holding baby & reading one-on-one to baby.

Also Peek-A-Boo Fun!

Activities we have planned for our older babies…

We will encourage standing andcruising by having babies pull to standing on soft bolsters.

Also their favorite activity oftunnel play-crawling through the tunnel and rolling balls through it.

For Sensory Activity we will smell and touch spring flowers. We will haveour walkers,

use push toys and march to songs.

For Fine Motor we will scribble with crayons and paint with rollers & brushes. Also use

stacking ring, and container and lid play. We will experiment with

shape sorters. Also use our sensoryblocksto build.

For our Dramatic Play we will play with dog and cat figures and learn the sounds they

make. We will encourage play with our pull dog toys. For Languagewe will be reading books

one-on-one and have fun with telephone play.We will also Sing and Dance to musicwith

instruments. Our special songs this month include: BINGO, “I have Five Little Fingers”and

“Here Comes Peter Cottontail.”

Hopefully the weather will turn warm so we can go on dailystroller rides and see thesights

of our neighborhood. Have a great month! We will continue bird watching! The Children Love it!

Miss Chris, Miss Monica, Miss Laura, Miss Rosanny, Miss Elena, Miss Sabrina

Welcome to April Everyone.

April showers bring May flowers. Spring is coming, finally! We are all more than ready!

In Language & Science we have already started discussing our growing flowers and plants. We

will be talking about how the rain and sun help make things grow. We will talk about rainbows

and will do many activities related to them. Using rainbow colored crayons we are making

umbrellas to display in our room.

Using our Fine Motor Skills we are creating a colorful spring shape wreath using

colorful paper of different sizes and shapes.

Some of the books we are reading this month include “The Golden Egg Book”,

“What Makes a Rainbow”,and“Our Garden” book.

Our Younger Toddlers (ages 13-16 months) are using push and pull toys to practice

using both large and fine motor skills while getting plenty of exercise.

In Dramatic Play our Older Toddlers (ages 17 months & up) are using hula hoops to go around,

under, and through. We are pretending the hula hoops are puddles and will use bean bags

to toss into them and also to practice jumping into them. We are spending a lot of time

outdoors in our play yard having fun running, jumping, climbing and just being kids enjoying

the great outdoors!

Some of our songs and finger plays this month include: