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.
We read Snowballs today by Lois Ehlert then tried our hand at making our own snowball soap creations that won’t melt, but will slowly disappear after we use them to keep our hands clean!
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!
Welcome back!! It was great to see everyone’s smiling face back in action today! To start the new year off, we introduce new center activities, along with a new January country: Greenland. With a cold climate and lots of white to see, the children have lots of opportunity to explore activities with letters, numbers and shapes that represent snow and ice. In Ms. Leslie’s small group, we played “Flurries or Snowstorm?” The children chose a number, then put the corresponding “snowflakes” onto our winter scene. In Ms. Lori’s small group, she showed the children several ways to build a snowman: rolling balls using playdoh, stacking different sized circles, and tracing a snowman. In Ms. Courtney’s small group, the children used “snow” to trace out the letters V, W and X. We had a snowtastic day!
Today we read Dream Snow by Eric Carle again. The children were very excited that they remembered the name of the Author.
We discussed The Dream Snow Christmas Tree.
And then we made our own Christmas Tree.
The Farmers animals are named one, two, three, four, and five. We found our own animals and named them!
During the holidays, there is a big need for scissors….mostly wrapping all those presents! Today the children practiced their scissor skills by cutting fringe for their place mats. Starting with scissor safety, the boys and girls used their fine motor skills to make one cut snips create fringe to glue to the end of the place mat. The children were so proud of how successful they were with all of their snips!
We used the environmental print around our classroom on Friday for writing practice.
We played a building game on Thursday to continue our math unit in comparing sets. We rolled the dice, built our towers then compared our tower with our friends’ towers. Who had more blocks in their tower? Who had fewer? Who had an equal amount of blocks in their towers? Super easy game to do at home on a snowy day…all you need are some blocks and one die!
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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