We read the story Perfect Square, a story about a square that got ripped and torn and turned into something new and beautiful. And then… we made our own creation with our own perfect squares!
It started out as a perfect square until I tore it and then it became an…
ELEPHANT!
and a FENCE!
We practiced counting and number recognition in a fun and tasty way! Yum!
We put a fun twist on reviewing our letters and sounds today during small groups. Children took turns finding and matching the lowercase alphabet cookies with the corresponding uppercase plate while practicing the sounds together.
Developing early literacy skills by building a strong foundation in letter identification and phonological awareness is critical to future strong readers and writers. In K Prep we begin our program with ensuring that each of our students have the opportunity to build these critical skills through interactive activities in small group settings.
Budding readers are hard at work each day.
Our preschoolers started working in their journals this week! Each morning, we start our day with “Journal Time.” Sometimes it is in their journals, other times it is a page that goes home. It is either a prompted, independent learning activity or an open ended creation! This week, we have been focusing on and reviewing colors. Our focus color this month is yellow! We talked about the letter it starts with and completed a coloring activity all about the color yellow! Later this week we talked about our favorite colors and everyone got to practice using glue sticks for their first entry in their journals.
Later this week we talked about our favorite colors and everyone got to practice using glue sticks for their first entry in their journals.
We are getting into a groove here in preschool and we are loving getting to know all of our new students! This week has been all about getting comfortable in our new classroom, learning where things are, how to use the clip system in our centers, and making new friends! Today we talked about our favorite centers and the favorites are definitely the baby center, the tower, and the library! We are having a lot of fun! We also learned what a good listener looks like. We read the story Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen and we had special helpers show us examples of what a good listener does and looks like!
It was our last week in our Summer Play Date Experience and we had a blast!
We played balloon tennis, had a wind blown tunnel fort, played outside, and so many other fun activities including this awesome art project!
We had a lemonade stand and everyone got to have lemonade with their snack one day!
We played with rainbow bubble socks!
We played with water on Water Wednesday!
One of the days, it ended up being very rainy so we brought our chalk play experience inside!
We had a special visit from Cool Critters and we had some very brave kids get up close and personal with some very cool critters!
And to end our week, we had a party to celebrate the end of summer!
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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