Introduction to Italy by painting the Italian flag
Our pizza parlor chef and hostess
Practicing the perfect pinch for holding a crayon
Putting ideas into reality during block center free choice
Discovering the centers during free choice
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Join us this Friday, Febuary 12th for our annual celebration of Valentine’s Day with Creative Tots Special Person’s night. Each preschooler is encouraged to invite one person that is very special to them to help celebrate this special day. We will make a craft, share some fun together with friends and make a valentines day card. The kids are always excited to see the chocolate fountain make an appearance and quickly realize that even the best snacks taste better covered in cocoa.
A turkey is a funny bird
The children have been using bright and beautiful water colors to create turkey feathers. This week we have been talking about the Thanksgiving holiday and they couldn’t wait to create their own turkeys! Here is a song we have been singing that you can try to sing at home!
(to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel”)
A Turkey is a funny bird
His head goes Wobble, Wobble
He only knows one word…
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble!
sensory table colored pasta
This week our sensory table is full of colorful noodles! The kids have been digging their hands in this colorful pasta and scooping and dumping it! They have been using spoons to scoop the noodles into the bowls and pretend they are making soup! Since all of the noodles are different colors this has been a great way to practice our color recognition as well!
Here are some of our Early 3’s children working hard at their scissor skills! They are cutting their paper into little pieces and sorting the scraps by color. They are really coming a long way with their scissors!
scissor skills and shape sorting
This month we are learning about different nursery rhymes. The kids worked really hard creating this beautiful mural of the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle”. Each class made a different part of the nursery rhymes to create the whole rhyme. They loved watching as each piece was added to the mural!
our nursery rhyme mural "Hey Diddle Diddle"
All this week we have been practice, practice, practicing the letter Pp; the way it looks, the way it sounds, and today we even got a little messy and practiced writing in some gooey shaving cream! Each child had a few turns getting their hands in the messy tray to magically shape their own letter P’s. Exposure to the letter in different and meaningful activities reinforces the concept we’re working on in a whole new way. And who doesn’t love getting their hands a little messy every once in a while! Great job today, preschoolers!
play-dough sculptures
The kids had a wonderful time with play dough this morning! They were using their creative minds to turn their play dough into many different things. Morgan turned his play dough into a pair of glasses and Audrey made hers into a hat!
treasure hunting at the sensory table
This week we have added rice and colorful jewels to our sensory table! The kids have loved feeling the texture of the rice and sorting through it to find the shiny and colorful jewels! We had quite a crowd at the sensory table today scooping and dumping the rice over and over again! The rice was used for many different things today. Some kids were “building houses” while others were “cooking different foods.” The jewels were also a big hit for finding “treasure” and talking about the different colors.
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