Practicing our letter formation is fun, but practicing them in Cool Whip is even better! Today, in Ms. Lori’s small group, the boys and girls practiced writing the letters V, X and W in a small tray of Cool Whip. Working from left to right, top to bottom, the children enjoyed this memorable experience!
Some like their vegetables steamed, some like them raw. How about covered in paint?! Today, the children practiced the letter V by tracing it with vegetable stamps. While practicing the /v/ sound, we also came up with words that begin with the letter V: vegetable, violin, vet, very, and everyone’s favorite…vvvrooooooommm!
In part two of our snowman building, our snowmen received a blast of arctic snow, along with a face, scarf and buttons! It was time to get ooey and gooey again with shaving cream and glue as we applied snow to our dry paper mache. Everyone dug in as we put our finishing touches on our snowmen masterpieces!
The Greenland flag is a little misleading…there is no green! Today, Ms. Lori taught the children that the white part of the flag represents the ice in Greenland, and the red represents the ocean. What a tricky little flag!
Scrimshaw is the art of carving pictures into whale teeth. Using sharp objects, sailors would spend hours carving scenes into the hard teeth. Today, the children used a bar of soap to represent a whale tooth. Each child carved a “W” for whale into a bar of soap. Tapping on our own teeth gave us an idea of how difficult it must be to carve into real whale teeth!
Cooking doesn’t have to involve complex baking. Today the children took over as each child had their own plastic knife and bowl to chop up lots of fruit and stir in a little Cool Whip to create a delicious Ambrosia Salad. Those fine motor skills are coming along as some of the children were able to master the grip and back and fourth motion of the knife! The children enjoyed choosing his/her own fruit and creating their own kitchen masterpiece!
Beluga Whales live in frigid Arctic waters, but today, they came to life in our classroom! While working on the letter W, the children used their fingerprints to create an ocean scene. When the children were finished, we worked on building the letter W using our “big lines” and magnet boards. While working on the /w/ sound, we also discovered the letters V and X.
Even though our snow has melted, that doesn’t keep us from building our own snowman! Today, we made paper mache snowmen. Mixing equal parts water and flour, the children got ooey gooey by slathering our balloon snowmen with pasty newspaper. This two-part project has a ways to go. Next Thursday, we will get to decorate the snowmen by getting ooey gooey again when making them white (shaving cream anyone?!), and topping them off with their proper decorations. We can’t wait to to see the finished product!
New centers means new ways to learn our letters, letter sounds, practice our numbers, one-to-one correspondence, patterning and shapes. Today, the children learned how to play the new games and activities that are in our centers. They were all eager to try something new!
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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