Our PreSchool Blog

Friends are vital to Preschool & Pre-Kindergarten children’s healthy development. Friendships provide children with more than just fun playmates. Friendships help children develop emotionally and morally. In interacting with friends, children learn a lot of social skills, such as how to communicate, cooperate, and solve problems. They practice controlling their emotions and responding to the emotions of others. They develop the ability to think through and negotiate different situations that arise in their relationships. Having friends even affects children’s school performance. Children tend to have better attitudes about school and learning when they have friends to share it with.

At Creative Tots, we have learned that students rely heavily on their senses to process information when learning. This means it is more easily accessible to your children as there are more ways the information can be triggered and retrieved from their brain. We all have different learning styles and we strive to make lessons beneficial to all your children.  Our goal is to make learning a fun and multi-sensory experience to help children remember and retain information more effectively. One way we achieve this during our daily writing groups is through sensory writing. Using a textured material under their paper during their writing activity allows the brain to not only see the letter that’s in front of them but also FEEL the letter as they write it. Not to mention, it’s fun!! Playful Learning at work.

Roll the die, identify the number, count out that many poms into your cup. The first person to fill their cup wins!

(Obj: Number Recognition, one to one correspondence, counting and fine motor development)

The first step to reading readiness is being able to understanding that there is a relationship between letters and sounds through written language. Children who cannot hear and work with the phonemes of spoken words will have a difficult time learning how to relate these phonemes to letters when they see them in written words. Before reading groups begin, our K Prep students are working hard (and playing hard) to connect each letter with the sound it makes as well as identifying the first sound in a spoken word. How do we learn this important skill in K Prep?  Playful learning!

The K Prep class has been busy exploring their new classroom! So many new things to see and do for our new year. We have been working hard the past two days understanding the difference between letters and words, building words and taking them apart (segmenting). These activities were done using student’s names so we can’t post those activities on the blog, but you can view the children hard at work on these activities on our ClassDojo stories. Looking forward to a wonderful year with these sweet K Preppers.

We celebrated the last week of preschool with Beach Day and Awards Day!!  We had an amazing year with your little ones and we hope you all have a great summer!

We had such a fun day celebrating the ones we love… our families!  From our mini concert to our yummy snack, and even our fun activities, I’d say Valentine’s Day in Preschool was a success!