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We’ve been talking about the nursery rhyme “Three Little Kittens” and how the kittens lost their mittens. So, today we helped the kittens find their mittens in the snow. As the toddlers found a mitten we talked about it’s color and placed it on the board looking for it’s match.
Caught you sampling the supplies!!!
Search with the magnet wand and discover is the jingle bells are magnetic!
Our rice was peppermint scented…happy the holidays are here in the classroom!
Tape Resist Art
Ms. Diana put pieces of tape on the toddlers’ paper to look like a snowflake, and then the toddlers used their hands to paint over it. When the paint dried, Ms. Diana peeled the tape off to reveal a unique piece of resist art.
But the fun doesn’t have to stop there. At home you can let your toddler place stickers on paper and paint or color over top of it. For more project ideas check out http://handsonaswegrow.com/13-tape-resist-art-projects/
The Toddlers are having so much fun in our new Holiday themed sensory tub!
This week we learned about turkeys during our science day! We had a child dress up as a turkey, and we talked about the various parts of the turkey. We taped a red scarf on the child’s chin to represent the “wattle” and talked about how the male turkey changes colors when he is scared, happy, or sick.
Next we discussed how a male turkey struts around to impress the females…
…he fans out his tail feathers like a peacock and drags his wings on the ground.
We discussed the differences between domestic and wild turkeys.
In one of our small groups, we talked about turkeys having 2 stomachs. We used water bottles to represent a turkey’s stomachs. We broke up graham crackers and put berries in the bottle, then poured water into the bottle (pretending it was the “gastric juice” breaking down the food)….
We watched the “gastric juice” soften the crackers before moving to the “second stomach.”
Next we poured rocks into the bottle because turkeys swallow rocks to help with their digestion in their second stomach, called the “gizzard”. The children shook up the bottle with the rocks and watched the rocks mash up the crackers.
The end results were not pretty…but digestion just isn’t a beautiful process. 🙂
In another small group, the children drew a diagram of a turkey…including the two stomachs.
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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