Our PreSchool Blog

Our little learners reviewed all of the shapes they’ve learned throughout the year with some hands on shape activities. One was finding the bug hiding under the shapes. They had to pick the shape I asked them to find and see if the bug was hiding underneath it! They also matched shapes to the underwater animal puzzles. We finished off with a shape collage. We glued each shape one by one as a group.

We finished off our alphabet with some letter Z activities. Zoo is for Zoo animals–washing zoo animals! We also did a Z is for Zipper activity. Each student picked a pouch with a zipper and found what was inside and then sorted the surprise inside by color!

We had a colorful time studying the rainbow during the month of March. Check out some of our rainbow activities below:

Cereal color sort

Ribbon Rainbows!

Rainbow watercolor name painting

Finally, a rainbow obstacle course for some indoor recess!

To celebrate St. Patty’s Day, we made shamrock wands and talked about the color green

We made our letter V is for Vase letter craft and during whole group we sorted flowers by color and put them in a vase of our own!

March was not only about the color green, but we also studied the rainbow! We talked about how a rainbow is made and which colors make up the rainbow. Below you can see all of the rainbow color sorting we did! Sorting by color is a skill we incorporate a lot with our toddler learners. It practices color recognition and matching.

Some of the toys in our centers and sensory bins were also rainbow-themed. We love to see them learning through play!

Of course we had to do some rainbow art projects. We read the book “What Makes a Rainbow” by Betty Schwartz and then made our own rainbow using ribbon and a fluffy cloud. This was a challenging art project for our little learners and they did an excellent job with it!

Some other rainbow art projects:

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.

We had such a fun couple of months, with Spring activities such as, gardening, and learning about bugs and insects that live in the garden! Below you can see some of the April and May activities we did.

Matching colors:
Finding the bunny tail to match the color of the bunny!

Matching the jelly bean to the color on the oval!

Counting Flowers:
For this game, our friends rolled a die, and the number they got, that’s how many flowers they “planted” in their pots!

Name building: Writing their names with flowers!

Purple Party!:
Learning about the color purple, we found a bunch of purple items around our classroom, and then had a PURPLE snack–grape jelly fold-overs!

They got to spread the jelly on their bread 🙂

This school year has FLOWN by, and we have had so much fun watching our toddlers grow, learn, and play. Thank you for sharing the joy of your children with us! Happy Summer!!!

During the month of February, we talked about transportation and things that take us all over the world! We learned about trains, cars, bicycles, hot air balloons, and airplanes. We even took an imaginary airplane to the beach!

Ms. Kristen was the pilot of our plane, while Ms. Melanie and Ms. Kelsey were the flight attendants. They even got a snack and drink on the flight 😉

We also learned all about what the red, yellow, and green lights stand for! We practiced learning these colors and their meanings by tossing matching bean bags with the color on the “stop light”

Our alphabet page for our transportation theme was “R” is for “road”! The toddlers practiced their fine motor skills by peeling off stickers, and sticking them onto the “road” made out of the letter R!

We also had a fun sensory activity with our cars, having a pretend car wash in our sensory bins.

And because you can never do too many color sorting activities, we used miniature modes of transportation to sort onto our color mats!

As the Halloween season has comes to an end, and we head into Thanksgiving and our Farm theme, we wanted to share some of the fun Halloween-inspired activities we did in the toddler classroom!

First we practiced some of our math skills, by matching different colored/patterned ghosts!

We then practiced sorting colors using different colored Legos. Our toddlers had to pick a colored Lego from the Mystery Can and feed it to the monster it matched!

Building letters using Candy Corn!

Counting practice: 5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate!

Orange is the color of the month for October, which is fitting with the colors of Fall and Halloween all around us! We have been doing a lot of orange activities this month. We sorted different items that were colored orange, made a pumpkin craft with orange paint, and did an open-ended orange collage using glue sticks and assorted paper shapes!

Orange Collage!

We had to snap a picture of our friend in her orange outfit 🙂

Pumpkin prints using pool noodles. Check out those hand grips!

Putting our 5 little pumpkins on the gate

The color we have been focusing on in the toddler classroom this month is the color yellow. We incorporate the color of the month into different small group activities, art projects, and within our centers whenever we can!

For one of our small groups, we found yellow play-dough in Ms. Kristen’s mystery can, and we got to make our own yellow play-dough! Each of our friends took a turn adding different ingredients for our play-dough recipe. They do such a good job waiting for their turn!

It’s so exciting to be able to play with the play-dough you made yourself! 😉

In another small group, we made a yellow collage with glue sticks, yellow shapes, and yellow crayons.

Yellow bean bag toss to practice gross motor skills! Gross motor skills are such an important part of your toddler’s physical development. Having different types of movement activities helps to promote muscle movement, and strengthen coordination.

Yellow color sorting!

We love to do art projects with our friends, especially ones that involve using our senses! Our friends were able to make some lemon prints, using real lemons, which they got to smell and taste before we used them for painting. They were so sour! 🙂