A review of the colors we have learned about this year led to a chart of our favorite colors. We then had a yummy review of colors and sorting using Fruit Loops. After sorting the cereal by color – the reward was a colorful snack!
A review of shapes led to a shape collage. We will laminate these for the toddlers to take home over the summer. Keep in the car or take to restaurants to review shapes while waiting for a table.
During small groups, we matched up foam numbers to the outline. Physically holding the shape of the number sometimes helps with recognition in the future. We also practiced counting every time we placed a number on the line.
Easter came early this year at Creative Tots! Our Preschool class celebrated by doing Easter themed activities all week!
We have stayed busy in the PM Preschool room this winter! From acting out winter literature, to learning about arctic animals… the kids are having a blast and of course, learning a lot!
Arctic animal bingo!
We focused in on the penguin for our science day! The kids learned that penguins have a layer of blubber to keep them warm. To help them understand this concept, we did an experiment to show the kids what blubber feels like for the penguins! We had two ice cold bowls of water. One bowl had a bag of coconut oil in it, to act as the blubber. They put one hand in each bowl and decided that the bowl with pretend blubber kept them warmer!
We then put a block between our legs so we could waddle like penguins!
We counted goldfish into the penguins belly’s!
5 Little Snowmen Readers Theatre!
Building shapes and open ended creations with toothpicks and marshmallows.
Letter building with “O” shaped cereal
Getting ready to count and build our towers
Getting our bodies involved on a cold winter day, with a gross motor shape hunt!
Melted snowman art!
Counting out “snowballs” with tongs for a fine motor addition!
Hand Strength and cutting practice
We embraced our October theme whole heartedly this month! What’s better than giving academic time a Halloween twist?? Here’s a taste of what we did this month!
Spider Counting!
Building letters with pumpkin seeds
Letter building with candy corn
Halloween cutting center
Feeding the Alphabet Zombie (he loves his letters!)
Acting out the Five Little Pumpkins
Spider swatting and number recognition!
Fall Number Mats
Wicked letter find and sort!
Silly Monster Craft!
What a fun week in preschool prep! The students were able to explore their sense of touch this week. We talked about different textures and incorporated sensory experiences into our small groups!
Fine motor, letter & number recognition and more!
The Preschool Prep class is working hard and having fun learning about letters, shapes, colors, numbers and more!
We read the story “The Very Busy Spider” by Eric Carle, and made our very own class spider web!
We jumped right into reviewing numbers as we begin our journey into the fun world of math in K Prep!
We fed Mr. Teni his favorite numbers during small groups! This activity helped us build stronger hands while reviewing numbers 1-20. This is a fun and easy activity to make and use at home…Mr. Teni loves to eat just about anything and is sure to help develop strong hands for strong and enthusiastic writers!
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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