Our PreSchool Blog

The fine motor skills that Creative Tots preschoolers are capable of is impressive!  These boys and girls have begun to master the skill of cutting.  It is not an easy task, but the children are beginning to follow the lines, as well as realize that moving your hand to grasp the paper at better angles makes the cutting easier.  Check out our very own scissor specialists!

Did you know…

• Toucans are one of the loudest birds in the rainforest
• Their diet consists primarily of fruit, nuts and seeds
• Their colorful bill is used to reach fruit on branches that are too small to support their weight
• Their bill is filled with air, which makes it more for show, rather than a combative tool.

We learned about the life cycle of a red eyed tree frog today and watched the actual frog transform through the process on our SmartBoard.  We then created our own book describing the steps of the life cycle.

We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar today during group time.  Through a SmartBoard video clip, we watched a butterfly go through the entire life cycle!  We then had the chance to watch The Very Hungry Caterpillar come to life on our very own SmartBoard!  If you would like to check out the video, click on the photo of the book below.  Then, we tried our hand at Eric Carle’s illustrating technique and created our own butterfly.

Recognizing the difference in size amongst shapes and objects is the first step to sorting.  Today, the boys and girls ordered circles by small, medium and large.  Using fine motor skills to peel the stickers off, the children caught on to this sorting very quickly!

The letter O makes the /o/ sound, as in octopus.  The short o sound is most commonly found in three letter words, such as hot, top and lot.  Today, the boys and girls brainstormed some letter O words while stringing their very own letter O’s using Fruit Loops.  It was a tasty  way to practice the /o/ sound!

Writing our name is a skill that we, as adults, use every day.  The children have been working hard all year to form their letters correctly and in the right order.  Today, the boys and girls continued to practice forming the correct letters when they used white crayon to write their name, and then paint over it with water color. Instantly, the children could see their name in white appear through the paint!