Playing outdoors allows our toddlers to learn about the world around them. Can sticks stand up in the sand? How does mud feel? Why do we slide down instead of up the slide? How do I make my truck go faster? How does the tree create cool shade from the sun? Why is the water in the water table cool in the morning and warm in the afternoon? Not only do children learn many of the basic and fundamentals about how the world works around them, they are more apt to remember what they learned because it was a concrete and personally meaningful experience!
Young children learn in many different ways. One way they learn is through purposeful play and open ended activities. Open ended art experiences give them a chance to explore the world around them, ask questions, and see how things work. These art experiences allow them room to be themselves, make their own decisions, and just create. We used liquid watercolors, absorbent paper towels, eye droppers, and small paint brushes to create! The children loved watching their tiny drops spread and mix into a starburst as they hit the towels.
Young children function best when working in small groups due to the fact that their social and cognitive skills are still developing. The bulk of our day is devoted to small group activities to help children grow both socially and cognitively. When children work with only a few other children, in a small group setting, they learn important lessons about cooperation, compromise and the give and take of conversation. Also, when working in small groups with a teacher, children are able to receive the more focused attention they need for completing complex tasks and activities.
This week we began adding our Morning Table into our day! Each day when the children come in, there is a fun activity for them to do on the table. Sometimes it may be literacy related, shape related, or number related. Other days it might just be some messy fun! This week, one of our activities was working on the letter of the week, Letter A, and some fine motor practice as well! Peeling off stickers is a great activity for your child to work on their fine motor skills at home too!
We jumped right into reviewing numbers as we begin our journey into the fun world of math in K Prep!
Our first week in Preschool Prep has been a blast! We have been learning our way around the classroom, playing with new centers and meeting new friends!
We have had a great first couple of days in the preschool room! We have been learning how to use our clips when we want to play in a center, we’ve been making new friends, we read lots of stories, and we sang lots of songs! We also got to do some fun sensory play while we learned about wearing team tags for our small groups!
We even practiced some of our letters!!
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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