Mounds View Public Schools Community Education

Baby & Me For ages birth - 9 months by September 1, 2022 and Parents. During your Baby and Me class, you will nurture your parent-child relationship with play-and-learn activities. Both you and your baby will discover sensory activities, songs, and movements to enhance baby's brain development. Your licensed teacher will lead discussions on parenting topics that may address feeding, sleeping routines, baby's joys, concerns and more. This is a non-separating class.

Paint and create art using bubbles, sing songs, play in soapy water in our sensory table, and end the day with creating all different sizes bubbles on the playground.

Busy Bodies For 24 - 35 month old children by September 1, 2022 and Parent. In the Busy Bodies class, you and your child will explore many things together. You will enjoy doing arts and crafts, exploring science and sensory items, play time, and music together. These classes also provide opportunities for social-emotional connections and problem-solving skills for both the child and parent. Parents will learn guidance techniques and how to support your child's struggle from dependence to independence. During a portion of this class, parents will separate from their child to work with a licensed parent educator.

Our child will explore different ways in being creative by making their own tye-dye shirt, collages, modeling using clay, and painting on canvas. Have your child bring a white T-Shirt in their size with their name printed on the tag. We will read stories about children being creative and end our day with outside play on the playground.

Through dinosaur theme play activities your child will dig for dinosaurs, create fun art projects, sing songs, move like a dinosaur, build puzzles, and her stories about dinosaurs. We will end our day playing on the playground.

Explorers For 18 - 23 month old children by September 1, 2022 and Parent. In your Explorers Class, you will spend time with your child exploring and moving in class together. Both you and your child will be able to participate in arts and crafts, science and sensory items, playtime, and music time together. These classes also provide opportunities for social-emotional connections and problem solving skills for the child and parent. During our Thursday class option parent and child will separate during a portion of this class. During this time, parents will meet with a Licensed Parent Educator to discuss topics of choice. Our Monday class option is a non-separating class.

Family Playtime For children birth - 5 years old by September 1, 2022 and Parents. While in Family Playtime, you will have fun exploring and playing together! This class is non-separating.

First Friends For 30 - 35 month old children by September 1, 2022 and Parent. The First Friends class combines ECFE and preschool together. To start, you will attend one day a week with your child. Beginning the week of January 30, your child will attend an additional day by themselves. The child-only day allows children to socialize with their peers, similar to preschool.

Downward dog, cat, and cow! Join us for a week of some yoga fun! We will practice different yoga poses and breathing techniques for self regulation.

Come join us for outside time on the playground and learn organized games using balloons, balls, and so much more. Children will have free play time along with running through an obstacle course. We will take a break to come inside for story time.

Come and get messy! Create marvelously messy art projects. We'll be sculpting, painting, and making collages!

Movers For 10 - 17 month old children by September 1, 2022 and Parent. During your Movers Class, you will nurture your parent-child relationship with play-and-learn activities. Discover sensory activities, songs, and movements to enhance brain development. Discussions on parenting topics may address feeding, sleeping routines, concerns and more. This class is non-separating.

Come and explore with your child! Have fun with vehicles this summer. We will soar with things that fly through the sky, move big loads with trains, and drive cars on roads and other surfaces.

Beat the Summer heat with a week of water fun! We will play with water balloons, sprinklers, and much more! Wear your swimsuit and sunscreen everyday. Splish, Splash!