The manipulative center provides children with interesting materials to explore. Exploration is essential to the development of mathematical and logical thinking. Gears along with other manipulatives in our center allow children to refine hand-eye coordination and visual perception. Stacking, fitting connecting, stringing, comparing, matching, sorting, sequencing, building, classifying, persisting at tasks, turning knobs-children continue to build basic skills through manipulative play. Children also learn to think logically, understand cause and effect, recognize shapes, and predict outcomes as they manipulate toys from this center.
But let’s not leave out the FUN!
After reading our readers today we worked on the formation and orientation of our focus sight words.
In celebration of Valentine’s day and all things love, our shape of the month is the heart! Today the boys and girls painted pink hearts using a stencil!
This month we have been learning about pets in the Toddler room. In the dramatic play area, the children can feed their animals bottles, play with their “pet’s” toys, and care for them in the pet nursery. During small groups, the boys and girls took turns giving the dirty dogs a bath. The tubs were filled with soapy warm water and the children washed off the spots. They loved splashing around in the water while caring for their pets! 🙂
Playing with blocks provides endless opportunity for the development of emerging perceptual-motor skills. While exploring blocks, the children are developing hand-eye coordination. The Toddlers love to stack blocks as high as they can and knock them down. This week we used blocks at the table. The boys and girls built tall foam towers using shaving cream and manipulated thistle blocks during another center.
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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