Last week we did a whole group activity to go along with our story of the week: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. After reading the story, we counted all of the food that the caterpillar ate throughout the story. Each child, then, got to “feed” the caterpillar (taped to a brown paper bag) a piece of food that he ate in the story. We talked about how a caterpillar eats then makes a cocoon. We discussed how he breaks through the cocoon and pops his wings out to dry.
{Ms. Sarah}
We have started working on blending sounds together to form word family words. We’ve started with the -at family!
It is important to strengthen all of the muscles in the hand and wrist while working on the handwriting process. Forcing little fingers, hands, and wrists to move in new ways is great for developing stronger muscles. Writing on a vertical surface challenges the wrist to use different muscles than writing on a flat surface usually does. The preschoolers worked on recognizing their names. A fun way to work on these muscles at home is writing with window markers or using foam letters/numbers on the walls in the bath tub. Have fun working those muscles!
The preschoolers strengthened their fine motor muscles today while practicing letter recognition and letter sounds. With warm weather finally upon us this is a great way to practice letters, numbers, shapes or names in the driveway at home! Painbrush + bowl of water and you have some entertained and engaged preschoolers. Have fun exploring while working on important skills!
This week we introduced our theme: bugs! We are also beginning to work on lowercase letters. Check out our small groups from Wednesday:
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We discussed uppercase and lowercase letters. I showed them what an uppercase “E” looks like then showed them what a lowercase “e” looks like. We talked about how some uppercase and lowercase letters are the same –the lowercase letter is just a smaller version. In our activity, the children spun the spinner, and whatever letter the spinner landed on they had to find the corresponding lowercase letter cookie. We would discuss which letter it was and whether or not it was the same/different than the uppercase letter.
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This group was focused on our theme: bugs! Ms. Diana talked to children about different bugs ~how they look and what each bug is named. The children had to match their bug to the bug on the board.
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This small group was our art small group! The children painted VERY colorful butterflies with their hands to go along with our book of the week: “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. At the end he turns into a beautiful butterfly, so we made our own version of the butterfly!
Ordering objects, cards, pictures in order from smallest to biggest and biggest to smallest is a foundational math skill. Seriation is an important building block for other math concepts. This can be a very easy skill to practice at home. Let your little one put silverware, pots/pans, books, cups, boxes in order from smallest to biggest. Use questions to help guide them through the process. Which one looks a little bigger? What object do you think is next? Have fun with it! They did GREAT with this skill today!
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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