Volume 3 March 2023

WHERE CHILDREN LEARN TO SHINE

CENTER SPOTLIGHTS & HAPPENINGS

Bright Ideas Auburn

(Alabama)

This past month Bright Ideas Auburn celebrated Father's Day with a Fathers Day brunch! Our lesson plans focused on the beach and ocean safety. We incorporated our water play days into our lesson plans with a sensory experience with bubbles! Our toddlers worked on developing their fine motor skills by gripping and holding a paint pen while making beach balls!

🌟 Faculty Spotlight 🌟

We'd like to put the spot light on Ms. Sarah! She is always going above and beyond for her students. They always get a big experience with her! ~ Director at Auburn

Bright Ideas Bryant

(Arkansas)

June had themes of water, ocean life, and weather! In Mrs. Amanda's class they were learning about octopuses and where they live and what they eat. While learning about ocean life, they used colors of the ocean to learn how to use a paintbrush by putting the paint only on the brush. They were also learning how to use back and fourth motions so they do not ruin the bristles. They had a lesson in language and that "octo" means eight, and how an octopus has eight tentacles.

🌟 Faculty Spotlight 🌟

Mrs. Kiara is our Teacher of the Month! Mrs. Kiara has been with Bright Ideas for 10 years. She has four kids of her own. She has her associates degree, and she has taught twos, threes, fours, and school aged children! She helps out when ever and wherever she is needed. We are so lucky to have her! ~Director at Bright Ideas Bryant

Collierville Christian Academy

(Tennessee)

This summer at Collierville Christian Academy has been one for the books! We celebrated all our amazing dads this past month with a "Donuts with Dudes" event where we enjoyed donuts and playing cornhole with dad. Our summer camp has been traveling the world and had a Shakespeare Experience to learn about England where they had an interactive poetry reenactment through joyous movement and laughter! The children wrote their own poems and acted them out. We've gone on a lot of adventures like nature walks, museums, water play days, and bowling! We've been working on our fine motor skills by practicing holding and using scissors correctly, and we worked on using our critical thinking and math skills while building structures!

🌟 Faculty Spotlight 🌟

Shoutout and a massive thank you to Mrs. Dell for all your hard work! Everyone is enjoying Vacation Bible School this summer! ~Director at Collierville Christian Academy

Bright Ideas Cordova

(Tennessee)

We've been busy this past month at Bright Ideas Cordova! We celebrated our dad's with a "Donut with Dad" event for Father's Day - we had so much fun with all of you! We started our Splash Days where we have a sensory experience while having fun running through the sprinklers! Our summer camp has started and its been full of fun activities for our school age students like going to Jerry's Snow Cones and putt putting. This past week we talked about the great outdoors. These included supplies needed to camp outside, what animals lived in the forest, and how to make a camp fire (with a special snack of course!).

🌟 Faculty Spotlight 🌟

Shout out to Mrs. Aretha! She is such a blessing to our team and we appreciate her dedication and all her hard work! ~Director at Bright Ideas Cordova

Brunswick Kids Club

In June at Brunswick Kids Club we kicked off our summer camp with lots of fun field trips and activities like hitting up the pool to beat the summer heat, and learning how to use our muscles and cognitive skills to scale the rock wall at the gym!

🌟 Faculty Spotlight 🌟

Meet Coach Patrick! Patrick joined our coaching staff this month. He works his main job serving and protecting our community as a Georgia State Patrol officer, and he has graciously given up his time off to help serve and protect our athletes in the gym! He is doing an incredible job, and we are so thankful to have him apart of the team! ~Director at Brunswick Kids Club

Stepping Stones Academy

(Texas)

We are well into our Summer Camp here at Stepping Stones Academy; we have theme weeks like Super Hero Week, Pirate Week, 4^th of July, Underwater Week, and so on. The Fort Worth Firefighters came to our school. We learned about fire safety and how to trust firefighters when needed. The children were able to go inside the fire truck. This was such a fun and educational experience.

Preschool 4 classroom did a fun and educational activity. The kids circle and find their names on 2 large pieces of butcher paper. We made it more fun by having the kids set up teams to see which team found their names first. This fun activity is great for name recognition and phonics learning. The children enjoyed it so much and it was nice to see them recognize their friend’s name as well.

We also celebrated Donuts with Dad in celebration of Father’s Day. The children ate breakfast with Dad which consisted of donuts, fresh fruit, and orange juice. What a treat to share with our loving dads! We also had an open house for the community. We had a bounce house, games, face painting, and an ice cream truck. The ice cream truck was a hit due to our Texas scorching weather!

🌟 Faculty Spotlight 🌟

We want to spotlight our staff that did an amazing job at our open house despite the hot Texas weather. Great job to all of those who took the time to help promote our wonderful school; we could not have done it without you. ~Director at Stepping Stones Academy

Bright Ideas Memphis

(Tennessee)

Bright Ideas Memphis has had a wonderful June and we can't wait for all the fun things we have planned for July! This pmonth we celebrated our dad's for Father's Day with a "Donut for Dads" event, we started our water play days, and our lesson plans were all about water, sea life, weather, and FUN! For instance, our Pre-K and school age children did a science experiment making tornadoes out of bottles and water. We got to see what a tornado looks and acts like within the safety of our palms!

🌟 Faculty Spotlight 🌟

We'd like to spotlight Mr. Paul, our school age teacher! He does so well with the children: teaching, organizing activities and experiments, and you can always find him right in the middle of whatever organized play he has them do! ~Director at Bright Ideas Memphis

Bright Ideas Midlothian

(Virginia)

At Midlothian this June, we celebrated our Pre-K graduates - we are so proud of them! A huge thanks goes out to Ms. Rachel and Ms. Jamie for helping them get prepared for the big event and for kindergarten. Our summer camp is in full swing and our School Agers had fun going to Maymont Park for our first field trip of the season! We had a wonderful learning experience with Ms. Jana's animals last week - we learned about hedgehogs, bunnies, snakes, and lizards to name a few! Our twos also had a fun learning experience about dinosaurs; They used playdoh and and toy dinosaurs to make footprints and learn about fossils!

🌟 Faculty Spotlight 🌟

We’d like to highlight our Junior Kindergarten Teacher, Ms. Rachel! She is always willing to lend a helping hand, has infinite patience, always has a positive attitude and has a great sense of humor. We appreciate all that she does and touching the hearts of so many of our young people. Thank you Ms. Rachel!

~ Directors at Bright Ideas Midlothian

FROM THE FAMILY LIBRARY

📘 BOOK OF THE MONTH

Recommended by Bright Ideas Midlothian

You're My Little Firecracker

By Natalie Marshall

Featuring everything from adorable firecrackers to sweet apple pies, You’re My Little Firecracker is a festive story that celebrates the love between a parent and child. Each colorful spread features a sweet, rhyming sentiment paired with a die-cut shape that adds depth and interest. With chunky pages for little hands and endearing text, this board book is the perfect read for the Fourth of July or any time of the year!