We have new centers for the month of April! They are based on our farm habitat theme. The students are having fun exploring them!
We have new centers for the month of April! They are based on our farm habitat theme. The students are having fun exploring them!
To wrap up our desert habitat month, we had some special guests come to visit us at Creative Tots! Our friend Miss Katie, from the Cincinnati Zoo, brought an armadillo and a corn snake for us to look at and touch! It was so much fun to see the animals we have been learning about in person!
After reading the book “Mouse Shapes”, we learned that shapes are all around us! The KPrep and Preschool classes made pictures using the 2D shapes we learned about.
The KPrep Class learned all about animals in the African Savanna last month! We acted out being lions and zebras after learning that zebras protect themselves from the lions by huddling in groups. The mix of white and black stripes make it hard for the lion to hunt one zebra!
The K-Prep class has been learning to measure in all different ways! We have been measuring length, height and distance using nonstandard units of measurement. We have also been measuring and comparing weight using a balance. Lastly, we have been measuring the capacity of different containers. We have been working hard and learning so much!
We measured our height with strands of yarn!
We measured arctic animals with unifix cubes (a nonstandard unit of measurement).
We measured the capacity of all different containers using beans!
We raced cars and measured the distance that each went…
We explored all kinds of nonstandard units of measurement! We measured with straws, crayons, pencils and more.
How many straws is our window sill?
How many cubes is our twistable crayon?
How many straws is our academic center?
How many pencils is our class atlas?
How many crayons is our easel?
How many crayons is our manipulatives center?
How many straws is our word wall?
After we explored the classroom with our measurement tools, we made predictions as to how many cubes long new items in our classroom would be, then we tested our predictions to see how close we came. We had a some GREAT predictions!
The KPrep Students were able to make their own creations and explore this peppermint scented, Christmas snow clay!
This month in science, the K-Prep class has been learning about the 5 senses. They have been able to explore their senses with interactive experiments as well as fun, educational books and videos.
We first explored our sense of smell. The class was able to smell different jars and make predictions of what they thought each jar smelled like. The items were revealed at the end of the lesson! (Cinnamon sticks, Chocolate, lemons, oranges, mint leaves, garlic)
We learned about our taste buds and how different parts of the tongue are able to taste different things (bitter, salty, sweet, sour)! After completing the below chart, we were able to taste and compare some of these different foods.
We explored our sense of sight by closing our eyes and trying to draw a picture of a flower. We then opened our eyes to draw the same flower. We compared our drawings and saw how important it was to have our sense of sight! After this activity we used magnifying glasses and observed celery sticks. We discussed how an object’s looks can change, and we conducted an experiment! The students put celery sticks into glasses of water and added food coloring. They made some predictions of what would happen to the celery. Over the course of a few days, we saw how an object can change right in front of our eyes!
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For our sense of hearing, we played a matching game using plastic Easter eggs. Different objects were placed inside the Easter eggs. Each egg had one other matching pair in the basket. The students had to use great listening skills to match each egg with its identical sounding partner.
Our sense of touch was explored through a mystery box sensory lesson! Each child had a turn to blindly reach into a mystery box and describe what they felt inside. We came up with some great descriptive words! They could ultimately guess what they thought was in the mystery box.
The K-Prep class participated in investigating and exploring a pumpkin during science this week! Lots of learning and fun!
The KPrep class has been learning about the scientific method and doing experiments! After watching a video, we went through the steps of the scientific method as we conducted an experiment together. Our first experiment is below! We were trying to find out which liquid would clean the dirty pennies best (vinegar was the winner!).
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