Little Ones Family Childcare

02/26/2026

Today the children practiced their scooping skills with a variety of spoons and different fruits and vegetables to go along with our nutrition theme. We named each item in the sensory bin and identified whether it was a fruit or vegetable.

02/26/2026

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🐻🎶 March Music for Littles – Bear Theme! 🎶🐻

Join us at the Belchertown Recreation Department for a fun-filled month of Music for Littles featuring our adorable Bear theme! We’ll sing bear songs, stomp like big bears, tiptoe like baby bears, explore instruments, and enjoy playful movement together.

🗓 Two Session Options
Sundays: 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29
Wednesdays: 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8

⏰ Time: 10:00am–10:45am
💲 Cost: $55

✨ Perfect for young children and their caregivers
🎵 Songs, instruments, movement & playful musical learning

👉 Register here:
https://belchertownma.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=30115

Spots fill quickly—come growl, giggle, and make music with us this March! 🐾🎵

02/24/2026

02/24/2026

This week we are studying Health and Nutrition. We read the book I Can Eat A Rainbow by Olena Rose. This book promotes the consumption of a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables to maintain good health. 🍌🍇🥩We also identified a range of healthy nutritious foods to eat to support growth and development 💪. For art, the children utilized their fine motor skills to tear green paper and glue it onto an avocado 🥑 shape cardboard.

02/20/2026

Engaging educational activity. Identifying emotions and color matching using paint.

02/19/2026

Feelings activities conducted today. Learning and matching our feelings to facial expressions. Emotion stamps with play dough, feelings matching game, and feelings sensory inspired sensory table.

02/18/2026

Today our class read The Color Monster book. The Color Monster by Anna Llenas is a popular children's book that helps kids understand and sort their emotions by associating feelings with different colors, such as happiness with yellow, sadness with blue, and anger with red. A little girl helps the confused monster, who feels all mixed up, by guiding him to place each emotion in its own colored jar, promoting emotional awareness and self-regulation. Then the children created their own Color Monster using different colored paint that are mentioned in the book, q-tips, and a Monster template. The children enjoyed mixing the colors and creating their own Monster. 🎨👾

02/17/2026

Little minds learning through play. Working on their fine motor skills, language, cognitive and social skills while having fun! Happy Tuesday everyone! 🧩😊

02/17/2026

This week we are learning about our Emotions. Teaching toddlers about emotions is crucial for building emotional intelligence, reducing behavioral outbursts, and fostering resilience. By learning to label and understand feelings like anger, sadness, or happy, toddlers can better manage their reactions, improve social skills, and build stronger relationships.
Recognizing emotions in themselves helps children begin to understand and respond to the emotions of others, improving social interactions.🙂😟😆😥

02/14/2026

Our Valentines Day sensory bin ❤️

Materials:
Heart shaped pasta
Rose petals
Heart shaped containers
Scoopers

The children enjoyed scooping up the pasta into the heart shaped containers and then shaking the containers and hearing the rattling noise.

02/13/2026

I love you to pieces craft! ♥️

02/12/2026

The littles enjoyed doing this fun, and simple fine motor activity this morning. All you need is Valentines heart shape molds and pom poms. The children worked on their fine motor skills and hand eye coordination. During this activity you can also incorporate counting, colors and shapes. ♥️💕