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.
February has been a fun month in the toddler room! We have focused on the color pink and the heart shape through songs, stories, crafts, and hands-on activities. We celebrated Valentine’s Day with a pajama party complete with games, dancing, delivering of Valentines, and treats.
Our toddler classroom is filled with opportunities to explore, problem solve, create, and learn through play. Our curriculum theme of the month is winter. We have used this as a guide to introduce and practice new vocabulary, incorporate our focus of shape (rectangle) and color (white) of the month, practice fine and large motor skills, and build on natural curiosity through using our senses to learn and grow.
Gross Motor Fun inside! An indoor snowball fight and balancing on a rectangular beam.
Individual discovery tubs are filled with items to discover by touching, pouring, sorting, and scooping.
Polar bear shape sort and a rectangular polar bear craft have been a fun way to learn about arctic animals, shapes, and fine motor skills.
Free choice center opportunities provide toddlers with materials to explore and create igloos and “homes” for arctic animals.
Using our five senses to discover hot cocoa / cold whipped cream and enhance a Maurice Sendak classic Chicken Soup with Rice!
Lacing provides problem solving skills, patience, and practice.
We read the story 10 Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss and listened to the song version by Jason Mraz. The toddlers had so much fun balancing apples, counting apples, picking apples, sorting apples, bobbing for apples, creating apple crafts, and peeling apples.
Pretend apple pie!
The toddlers utilized the farm theme to reinforce shape, color, counting, fine motor, and vocabulary skills. We sang Old McDonald and read The Big Red Barn. Our learning environment this month includes farm puzzles, toys, animals, and even a farmer’s market for pretend play.
A square scarecrow was our weekly craft.
We practiced using glue sticks for this craft!
Tractor painting while discussing different colors created a fun sensory experience!
Pigs covered in mud was another fun sensory experience. We watched a video of real pigs rolling in the mud.
Pin the tail on the piggy!
Milk the cow!
Roll the die to see how many wool rolls to put on the sheep.
We had so much fun in our class this week! The costumes were so fun and lots of crafts, games, and a mummy snack!
The costumes….oh my! Animals, super heros, princesses, dinosaurs, cowboys, ghosts, and more! Such a fun party with games, crafts, and special I is for ice cream snack!
We practiced our Five Little Pumpkins finger play throughout the month. The toddlers reinforced this through group time action and crafts. We also used fine motor skills to take washi tape on and off little pumpkins, salt trays, dot paints, and coloring. Pumpkin shape matching too!
Toddlers were very busy with spiders this month. We listened to the story by Eric Carle, made our own class spider web, threw spiders at a web, color matched spiders, stacked spiders, and did a web craft. There’s a Spider on the Floor by Raffi was a favorite song this month as well!
Focused on the letter G, the toddlers got to experience putting a penny into the gum ball machine. We all guessed what color would come out! We then created our own gum ball machine craft using colored circle stickers as gum balls.
F is for Fall and H is for Haunted House! Lots of fine motor skills used to create letter crafts this month!
Whoo Whoo knows about owls and triangles? Oliver the owl puppet came out to say Whoo Whoo! Five Little Owls, a triangle owl craft, building triangles, matching triangles, sorting by color, games, and more helped the toddlers learn about owls and triangles!
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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