The Early 3’s had a little “me” time right before spring break. They used yarn, googley eyes, and markers to make their faces. Some friends got really creative with their features and everyone got in a little writing practice when they used the markers to create their smiles!
We have some very brave eaters in the early 3’s! Our friends had a great time tasting green eggs and ham to celebrate St. Patty’s Day as well as Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!
The Early 3’s are continuing to work on their fine motor skills. Stringing beads help improve children’s ability to dress themselves, strengthens their pencil grasp, and improves their overall fine motor, visual perceptual, visual motor skills.
Our name activity for March has been building flowers using our names! Each child has to find their name and take it to the boy or girl flower and when all of the names are on the board we count how many boys and girls are at school. The children love to try to figure out who is not at school and if we have more boys or more girls.
The early 3’s explored math through their senses on Friday. They poured dirt into different sized cups to explore volume and size. They also cut play-d0h in the shapes of diamonds!
Cutting Diamonds with play-doh
It’s always fun to come up with vocabulary words that go with the letter of the week. “Monster” was especially fun! The early 3’s used their hand prints, googly eyes, and a marker to make some pretty silly monsters! Then a couple of them showed off their silly monster faces!
We are studying the letter M in early 3’s this week! We have been talking about words that start with M. One word we came up with was “macaroni”. The children had fun gluing pieces of macaroni to the letter M.
The early 3’s have been talking a lot about gardens and the flowers you can find in them. Today, they practiced ordering flowers…by size! After taking a minute to explore the flowers through their senses, they put the flowers in order according to length, shortest to tallest! We talked about how many flowers/plants start out short and grow taller with water and sun.
We are learning to recognize the letter T and the sound that it makes this week! We have been coming up with T words and finding the letter T when we look at books! We even used glue (by ourselves!!) to glue a tree shaped like a T onto paper! Check out our new glue stick skills!
With each new month and theme means new library books! The Early 3’s explored each new book from cover to cover. It is important to expose young children to a variety of books including fiction, non-fiction, nursery rhymes, etc. When young children are exposed to a variety of literature they are not only able to build on their knowledge and vocabulary, but are also able to find genres that interest them. This is a great way to promote early reading! This month we have books about gardening and vegetables, stories about garden creatures, and fun books with different pop-outs and textures!
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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