How many different ways can you write the letters X, W and V? Today, the children got hands on with their pre-writing skills! Using mini chalkboards, playdoh, wooden lines, magnet boards, stickers and crayons, the boys and girls practiced making their letters in creative and memorable ways.
On our Arctic travels today, we discovered lots of new things! In Ms, Lori’s group, the boys and girls learned about how polar bears stay warm. With a little Crisco, plastic Ziploc bags and ice cold water, the children got to feel how important blubber is for Arctic animals. In Ms. Courtney’s group, the children got in touch with their snowman building skills while rolling out some Playdoh to make the letters V, W and X. The similarities in the “big lines” used to create all three letters helped the children remember how these particular letters are formed. In Ms. Leslie’s group, the boys and girls created number twelve letter constellations. Poking tiny holes into the paper made our “stars”. The children were excited to turn the lights off and see their very own constellations. We discussed what a constellation is, and the children got to see a very neat video on the Northern Lights!
Who can build their snowman first? Draw a sight word card, read it to your friends. If you get it right, you get one piece to build your snowman. Whoever gets their snowman built first is the winner! Ready, set, go!
We had a ball on Thursday during small groups. Ms. Lori let us create an arctic scene from Greenland with homemade puffy paint and homemade textured sand paint. The kids enjoyed adding the puffy fur onto the Polar Bear to help keep it warm. During reading groups, after reading our readers, we played a Cookie Crunch Sight Word game on the Smartboard to polish our sight word recognition. Then, we used our white crayons on black paper to practice our letter formation and orientation of our current sight words. Watch out Kindergarten….here we come!
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!
We had our first Show and Share today in the Early 3’s! The children had the opportunity to bring in one item that started with the letter S…
S is for Snoopy!
S is for Snow White
S is for Snake!
S is for Sun!
S is for Snowball
We used roller paints today to write our new sight word…make. It was a fun way to write our new sight word!
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!
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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