Our PreSchool Blog

We cleaned off some pigs to reveal a hidden letter underneath all of that mud! They did a great job naming the letter and its sound

We’ve been exploring all things farm in Ms. Kelsey’s Studio Toddler Classroom. We talked about how pigs love rolling around in the mud, and then we made some muddy pigs of our own!

Our students love playing in some of our farm-themed centers. In the sensory tub, they have been hiding the farm animals under the rice and then digging them out! Farm animal noises can be heard a lot during our center time 🙂

The Preschool Prep and Toddler class had an awesome Halloween party at Tots! We had some Halloween sensory tubs and had fun decorating pumpkins with stickers.

Then we got to play some Halloween games like throwing spiders onto a spiderweb and tossing a ball into the “ghotst”!

We finished off the day with some monster snacks and dancing!

Happy Halloween!

The Studio Toddler Classroom had a great Halloween party, complete with dancing, games, and a monster treat!

The Toddler + Preschool Prep class has been hard at work this October! We have been using our Halloween theme as focus for some of our small group activities.

In one group, we fed different colored “Lego Monsters” that only eat Legos that match the color of their faces.

We also used a “spiderweb” to match shapes. They got to pick a shape and then stick it to the sticky spiderweb onto the shape it matched!

We are always trying to work in fine motor practice any chance we can get! Routine practice of using the thumb and finger grasp will help develop and refine their fine motor skills. Our students did a great job of stacking spider rings onto orange straws 🙂

We have jumped right in to our October literature with our reading of Eric Carle’s The Very Busy Spider last week! We had fun reading the story together, and making all of the different sounds of the animals that the Busy Spider met while spinning her web. The students all got a turn to touch the raised spiderweb on the pages of the book, which was a favorite part for most 🙂

Using puffy paint and a squeeze bottle, each student got to make their own raised “spiderwebs”!

It has been a wonderful September, and the studio toddler class has been breaking in our brand new classroom wonderfully! Below you can find some of our students enjoying their free play time and see them exploring their new environment.

Art is a favorite activity for many of our students, and their curiosity and eagerness to try new things has been so amazing. We did a craft incorporating yellow, our color of the month, and circles. We use an abstract painting tool–a lemon! They got to smell the lemon, and taste a piece of it if they wanted, and then used it as a stamp on their paper.

We also had our first visit from Ms. Joanie. Ms. Joanie is the music teacher at Creative Tots, and she visits our class every other Tuesday! Our students already got to play her drum, and say hello to Elmo (Ms. Joanie does an awesome Elmo laugh FYI 🙂 )

Check back in to see a sneak peak of our art show we will begin working on, as well as some examples of the small group activities we do.

It has been a month since the start of the school year so our students have gotten a chance to familiarize themselves with their different choices for free play, and most already have favorites! Talk with your child about which center they enjoy playing at the most each day 🙂

We love learning through play, especially when doing art projects! We have been incorporating the color yellow into several art activities so far this month. Encouraging young children to use different types of tools for art is great for their creative thinking and sensory skills. We got to smell the lemon and taste it, before using it to paint–using multiple senses to reinforce our lesson!

Keep following along to learn about some of our small group activities, and for a sneak peak at alphabet books and color books!

Welcome to the Toddler Room! We are so excited to be starting another school year with our new toddler friends, and some familiar faces as well! We are already learning so much about each of your children, and we cannot wait to see them thrive in our classroom this year.

At orientation week, we wanted our friends to get to know their new classroom, and the environment in which they’ll be spending their days. They got to explore some of our centers and all of the different toys and activities we have for them to play with around the room!

Recess time is always full of smiles and giggles! Our friends had fun with their own bubbles, the sandbox, toys, and our big slides!

We also had some mama and baby animals to wash, some play-dough for them to explore, and they were able to do some free art using stickers and chalk!

We gave them a sneak peak at what our group times will look like, reading a book called, “Little Bea” by Daniel Roode, and doing a finger play activity with bees.
Our song we sang went like this:
“Here is the beehive. Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees!
Watch and you’ll see them come out of the hive…
One, two, three, four, five!”

It was such a great first week, and we look forward to getting into our routine as the weeks go on! Thank you for sharing your sweet kiddos with us! 🙂

We had such a fun couple of months, with Spring activities such as, gardening, and learning about bugs and insects that live in the garden! Below you can see some of the April and May activities we did.

Matching colors:
Finding the bunny tail to match the color of the bunny!

Matching the jelly bean to the color on the oval!

Counting Flowers:
For this game, our friends rolled a die, and the number they got, that’s how many flowers they “planted” in their pots!

Name building: Writing their names with flowers!

Purple Party!:
Learning about the color purple, we found a bunch of purple items around our classroom, and then had a PURPLE snack–grape jelly fold-overs!

They got to spread the jelly on their bread 🙂

This school year has FLOWN by, and we have had so much fun watching our toddlers grow, learn, and play. Thank you for sharing the joy of your children with us! Happy Summer!!!