Our PreSchool Blog

We have had a great January so far. Below are some of the activities we have been doing in our class this month!

We love making art that can tie into our letter of the week, building on our motor skills, and/or practicing using our different art materials such as a glue stick, holding a paint brush properly, or practicing safe scissor skills. Sometimes we do free art, and sometimes we do art in which our preschool prep learners are following step by step directions.

We also like to use items in our art to make for a different sensory experience. We painted with legos to reinforce our shape of the month, rectangle, to make an igloo. We also used white paint to reinforce our color, too! We used oranges to paint with the color orange, because orange begins with the letter “O”.

N is for Noodles + Numbers! We had a fun sensory bin using colored noodles and talked about the different characteristics of the noodles. Were they warm or cold? What colors were they? Did they feel slimy, sticky, dry? We also went on a number scavenger hunt in our classroom!

Thank you so much to all our Creative Tots families for working hard at home to help us to help your child learn and grow.  We appreciate all the pictures of your children using the packets, plans, and materials to distance teach!  It is obvious through the pictures that our toddlers are making the most of this time!

New Garden Sensory Tubs!

W is for Watermelon

Planting Grass Seed

Five Little Flowers

Yummy “dirt” snack!

Purple Zoom with Ms. Kristen and friends from school!

Purple play dough and new scissors to practice cutting

Indoor Croquet!

We had such a terrific time at our 2019 Valentine’s Day parties.  The toddlers were so excited to celebrate with their families.  Ms. Joanie played her guitar, we had snacks, passed out valentines, created crafts, explored the sensory bins and had lots of fun!

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations start out with a sensory bin of water beads, gold coins, and scoops.

We created leprechaun beards by painting with a fork.

We heard the leprechaun was running around Creative Tots.   The toddler class traveled to the studio to look for him and found gold coins!  We practiced finding and counting treasure.

We continued with our study of green by creating a “green tent” for our color book.

Moving into spring with a sensory bin filled with eggs, butterflies, bunnies, and flowers.  Some children practiced scooping while others sorted by color or type.  The older children began to make patterns (a pre-literacy and math skill).

Matching Eggs…

Matching jelly beans.  Practice with one to one correspondence and color matching.  Also, an exercise in patience.  We had to match them all before we got to eat one as a treat.

Some fine motor skills are practiced when creating washi tape eggs.

Chalk eggs for our new easel.

Gross motor practice….Feed the bunny.

Painting feet for footprint bunnies.