All the colors and senses of the season give the toddlers opportunities to learn through purposeful play. Hands-on activities and crafts along with a sensory rich environment lead to peer interaction, learning, and fun!
All the colors and senses of the season give the toddlers opportunities to learn through purposeful play. Hands-on activities and crafts along with a sensory rich environment lead to peer interaction, learning, and fun!
An objective in the toddler class is starting to recognize the different colors and shapes. We love implementing different methods of learning these objectives through play! Being able to incorporate gross motor and fine motor into our learning also makes the activities more fun and interactive. Check out some of the activities below!
In the toddler class, we’ve also been working on our crafts, which entails sitting at the tables, following directions, and taking turns. This is something we have to practice from the start of school, and our little learners have been doing great! Last week we made a “donut” out of the letter “D”!
Foundational math skills are an important part of developing the minds of young learners. Matching is one of the most basic math concepts we teach in the toddler room, but a very important one! Matching, which usually involves one-to-one correspondence, can help a child to better understand that different items can still share characteristics, such as size, color, or shape.
In our leaf sorting activity, our little learners chose a leaf, told me the color, and matched it to the tree of the same color.
The Lego eating monster only likes legos that are the same color. The kids took turns
feeding the monster with matching legos.
This monster likes beanbags. Kids named the color of beanbag before they threw it in!
We are using the dinosaur theme to incorporate fine motor skills, sorting, matching, position words, and more. We have read several dinosaur books including Dini the Dinosaur, we have learned dinosaurn fingerplays, and danced to Laurie Berkner’s We are the Dinosaurs. Toddlers are learning through play!
We are learning about the shape of a circle this month. We used liquid watercolor to match up all the circles on our painting!
This afternoon Jessica was practicing one of the science center activities with color matching. For this activity she had to use the clothes pins to match the turkeys feathers. This is not only a great activity for color matching, but it is wonderful for practicing those fine motor skills!
Creative Tots has specialized in the private education of both toddlers and preschool age children for over 15 years. We began in the heart of Madeira and now also have a new Mason location. We are specifically designed to focus on early childhood development for children ages 18 months to 5 years.
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