We had a quick turnaround from spring break to Easter. The toddlers spent the week doing chick prints, egg matching, egg hunts, washi tape egg crafts, and matching bunny tails.
We had a quick turnaround from spring break to Easter. The toddlers spent the week doing chick prints, egg matching, egg hunts, washi tape egg crafts, and matching bunny tails.
The toddlers have focused on one letter each week of school. We review the letter each day and discuss the sound, shape, and words that begin with letter of the week. Using our five senses we try to provide opportunities to see, touch, smell, hear, and even taste items that begin with the letter of the week. We do crafts, read stories, fill the mystery can, and use hands on activities to reinforce the letter of the week.
U is for Unicorn, Umbrella, and Ukulele
V is for Vase
W is for Watermelon
X is for Xylophone and X-Ray
Y is for Yak, Yellow, and YoYo (we read a cute book call Yak and Gnu)
Z is for Zipper, ZigZag, Zoo, and Zebra
We will a review of all the letters while we read and do a craft with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom in May.
During the month of March we studied the weather and rainbows. We talked about how clouds are formed and did a science experiment to learn how rain falls from the clouds. Then we did a rainy day art project and talked about what we liked to do on rainy days. A lot of our little learners said they liked to jump in puddles. We did a pretend puddle jump and jumped on puddles with different letters on them!
For St. Patty’s Day activities we talked about rainbows and the order of the colors of the rainbow. We also did a shamrock letter match. The students used stickers with letters on them and matched them to stickers on their shamrock.
We had a colorful time studying the rainbow during the month of March. Check out some of our rainbow activities below:
Cereal color sort
Ribbon Rainbows!
Rainbow watercolor name painting
Finally, a rainbow obstacle course for some indoor recess!
To celebrate St. Patty’s Day, we made shamrock wands and talked about the color green
We made our letter V is for Vase letter craft and during whole group we sorted flowers by color and put them in a vase of our own!
March was not only about the color green, but we also studied the rainbow! We talked about how a rainbow is made and which colors make up the rainbow. Below you can see all of the rainbow color sorting we did! Sorting by color is a skill we incorporate a lot with our toddler learners. It practices color recognition and matching.
Some of the toys in our centers and sensory bins were also rainbow-themed. We love to see them learning through play!
Of course we had to do some rainbow art projects. We read the book “What Makes a Rainbow” by Betty Schwartz and then made our own rainbow using ribbon and a fluffy cloud. This was a challenging art project for our little learners and they did an excellent job with it!
Some other rainbow art projects:
Our focus on the color green and St. Patrick’s Day combined to make a fun March! The toddlers were immersed with green manipulatives, green play dough, green sensory bins, green snacks, and green crafts. After reading Little Blue and Little Yellow -we discovered that green is created from mixing blue and yellow. The leprechaun hid gold coins which the toddlers traded in for a rainbow snack. We also created a green wand in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.
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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