Our PreSchool Blog

In celebration of Valentine’s day and all things love, our shape of the month is the heart! Today the boys and girls painted pink hearts using a stencil!

This month we have been learning about pets in the Toddler room. In the dramatic play area, the children can feed their animals bottles, play with their “pet’s” toys, and care for them in the pet nursery. During small groups, the boys and girls took turns giving the dirty dogs a bath. The tubs were filled with soapy warm water and the children washed off the spots. They loved splashing around in the water while caring for their pets! 🙂

Playing with blocks provides endless opportunity for the development of emerging perceptual-motor skills. While exploring blocks, the children are developing hand-eye coordination. The Toddlers love to stack blocks as high as they can and knock them down. This week we used blocks at the table. The boys and girls built tall foam towers using shaving cream and manipulated thistle blocks during another center.

Buzzz…. Buzzz… the Toddlers were busy making valentines for their loved ones this week! They used their fine motor skills to build bumble bees. Will you “BEE” my Valentine?!

To celebrate Valentine’s day the Toddlers enjoyed decorating special treats. We had cupcakes, cookies, and rice krispy treats decorated with frosting and pink sprinkles.

The early 3’s worked on color matching featuring one of our favorite kinds of pets…CATS! They looked at the word for the color (which was written in that color) and matched it to the corresponding colored cat.