This week we are practicing how to draw horizontal and vertical lines in Early 3’s! Today with Ms. Bree Anna we began our practicing by tracing different line shapes in order to understand what a line looks like. Drawing lines is not only a wonderful way to develop those fine motor skills, but it is a basic skill that is essential to learn for pre-writing.
We are working on name recognition in our Early 3’s class. We used our fine motor skills and creative energy together in this activity where our names “appeared.” By writing every child’s name in white crayon, and having them paint in water colors over it, they can see their name show up against the colorful background!
It was such a rainy day outside! We decided it was the perfect day for a parachute party! We were able to sing and laugh with our friends while working on our gross-motor skills and out hand-eye coordination!
In our Early 3’s room, we have a shelf of activities that only our Early 3’s students get to play with. They feel so proud that they are old enough to investigate these fun activities! Since our theme of the month is water, we have wave makers in the science center. The children discover the connnection between movement and the creation of waves. In the math center the students work to put pretend birthday candles in little birthday cakes. The goal of this activity is to focus on one-to-one coorespondance and developing their fine motor skills.
We had so much fun this week in our Early 3’s class! We were able to explore our centers, meet new friends, and begin to learn how our classroom works! We loved using our fine motor skills in the manipulatives center, as well as when we washed the babies in the sensory tub! The transportation center was a favorite, especially when we were allowed to make train sounds! Look at all the fun we had!
We kicked the year off right at our Back to School Carnival! It was great to see everyone again after a long summer. We’ll see you very soon…
“On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese. I lost my poor meatball, when somebody sneezed. It rolled off the table, and onto the floor. And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door!”
We tried to keep our “meatballs” on top of the spaghetti today during recess…we did a great job, but they eventually went flying!
The soft serve ice cream man came to Tots today! The campers were treated to a special soft serve ice cream treat at the end of our day. We hope to see him again next week!
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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