The early 3’s have been learning to use markers and crayons to make circles this month! To make it a little more fun, we covered the table with foil and let the children use markers to make their circles all over the foil. The children had a blast making the circles and seeing the effects of writing on the foil!
This week we have been working with patterns. Ask your preschooler which pattern they created on their zebra!
Today we made winter snow globes in the Toddler room. The bottle was filled half way with water. Then we added baby oil. The children loved watching all of the little bubbles form.
Next, we added one drop of blue food coloring.
Then the boys and girls used their fine motor skills to pinch and drop snowflakes into the bottles.
To finish the project the children shook up the bottles and watched the winter wonderland.
To review the concepts of top, middle, and bottom, The Toddlers made a tasty treat. A graham cracker bottom, icing in the middle, and freshly cut strawberries on top. The boys and girls used their fine motor skills to spread the icing all over the cracker.
We have been working on measurement this month during our math studies and in anticipation of some snow, the kids made their own measurement tool to use when it does!
We explored the property of heat during our science lab today. We made predictions about what would happen to both a marshmallow and a bar of ivory soap if we added heat. We used our classroom microwave to conduct our experiment and look at our results…WOW!
We put on our lab coats and safety goggles today as we hit the science lab! We made predictions about what might happen to the M&M’s when we placed them into the warm water. Then conducted our experiment to find out if our predictions were correct! Many predicted they would melt while others predicted they would grow bigger. After our experiment, we found out that the color dissolved off of the M&M, but the M’s on the candies peeled off and floated to top.
Science is so much fun!
We are working on the book, This is My Mom this week in reading groups. It talks about all the different kind of jobs that moms have outside of the home. We are reviewing the sight word this, is, and my during our word work activities. Our new sight word this week is she and we have been introduced to the sound that the sh makes when put together. The children are doing an amazing job!
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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