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  • Playful Learning at Work in K Prep

    At Creative Tots, we have learned that students rely heavily on their senses to process information when learning. This means it is more easily accessible to your children as there are more ways the information can be triggered and retrieved from their brain. We all have different learning styles and we strive to make lessons beneficial to all your children.  Our goal is to make learning a fun and multi-sensory experience to help children remember and retain information more effectively. One way we achieve this during our daily writing groups is through sensory writing. Using a textured material under their paper during their writing activity allows the brain to not only see the letter that’s in front of them but also FEEL the letter as they write it. Not to mention, it’s fun!! Playful Learning at work.

  • Toddler Schedule

    Young children thrive on routine and repetition.  We plan our toddler day around a regular schedule so our friends know what’s coming next.  We mix up group activities, free choice, gross motor activities, etc. to engage the kids and accommodate attention spans.

    Daily Schedule

    9:00-9:40 Arrival/Free Play

    9:45-10:00 Story Time/ Fingerplays

    10:00-10:25  Outside Time /Parachute / Gross Motor Activities

    10:30-10:45 Snack Time / Quiet reading

    10:45 – 11:00 Letter Review / Pre-academic Small Groups

    11:00 – 11:15 Centers / Art / Sensory Bins

    11:15-11:30 Music / Movement / Dismissal

    Here is a glimpse into a day in the toddler room:

     

    Morning Free Play

    Story Time

     

    Fingerplays

    Outside Time/ Gross Motor

    Parachute

    Snack Time

    Quiet Reading

    Pre-academic Groups (Mystery Can; Letter Mailbox)

    Small Groups

    Centers

    Art

    Sensory Bins

    Music/Movement

    Dismissal

     

  • First Few Weeks of School!

    The preschool PM and preschool prep classes have been hard at work! We are starting to learn new letters, shapes, numbers, colors and more! We are also learning a lot about our classmates! It’s been a fun first few weeks at Creative Tots!

     

    Fly swatting our numbers and letters!

    A is for apple!

    Hand painting activity- We learned that we are all different and when we work together we can make something beautiful! We also learned that we can mix colors and create a whole NEW color, and we all thought that was pretty cool! (just check out the smiles on those faces!)

    Making friendship cookies!

    We learned that even though eggs are different colors, they are the same on the inside, just like us!

    We graphed our eye color for our “All About Me” study!

     

     

  • Playful Learning: Upper & Lowercase Matching Games

     

  • Playful Learning: Building a Strong Number Sense

    Roll the die, identify the number, count out that many poms into your cup. The first person to fill their cup wins!

    (Obj: Number Recognition, one to one correspondence, counting and fine motor development)

     

     

     

  • K Prep Classroom: Using Brain Breaks to Restore Children’s Focus

  • Playful Learning in K Prep: Phonics Study

    The first step to reading readiness is being able to understanding that there is a relationship between letters and sounds through written language. Children who cannot hear and work with the phonemes of spoken words will have a difficult time learning how to relate these phonemes to letters when they see them in written words. Before reading groups begin, our K Prep students are working hard (and playing hard) to connect each letter with the sound it makes as well as identifying the first sound in a spoken word. How do we learn this important skill in K Prep?  Playful learning!