Easter came early this year at Creative Tots! Our Preschool class celebrated by doing Easter themed activities all week!
Easter came early this year at Creative Tots! Our Preschool class celebrated by doing Easter themed activities all week!
March is off to a great start! From rainbow art, to counting gold coins.. St. Patrick’s Day lessons are in full swing!
We had a blast this week celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday! Each day we chose one of his books to focus our lessons and snacks around. These books included: Horton Hears a Who, The Lorax, Wacky Wednesday, Hop on Pop, and The Cat in the Hat.
Monday: Horton Hears a Who
We made our own snack to represent the clover Horton carries!
Tuesday: The Lorax
We planted green bean seeds in our Lorax cups!
Fine motor truffula trees
Truffula seeds (aka Trix cereal) for snack!
Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday
The kids and teachers dressed “wacky” for the day, even the classroom was “wacky”!
Coloring under the tables… How wacky!
“Wacking” specific letters with a fly swatter!
Wacky Wednesday snack: jell-o that appears to be red koolaid! We tricked them all!
Thursday: Hop on Pop
We practiced our rhyming skills by hopping on words that rhymed and trying to pop the bubble wrap!
Popcorn snack!
Friday: Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss sensory tubs!
The children have been working so hard throughout this year to create a variety of masterpieces using different mediums. We are looking forward to sharing them all with you on March 9th! The “Art Gallery” will be open from 5:30-7:00, come and enjoy all the children works anytime! As a reminder, there are no classes that day in order to give the teachers time to prepare for the annual event.
The PM Preschool class had fun gearing up for Valentines Day this year! Our lessons were themed specifically for this special holiday!
The kids used their fine motor skills to tear up pieces of paper and glue them into the hearts for this Valentines Day craft, “I love you to pieces”.
Pancakes for snack in our pajamas for letter “P” week! What a fun day!
Making Valentine bracelets and working those fine motor skills!
Building letters with candy hearts (yes we were able to eat a few)!
Valentines Day “sense of hearing” lesson. The children closed their eyes and shook one egg at a time. They had to make their best predictions of what was inside!
Math and fine motor collide in the next number ordering activity!
We have stayed busy in the PM Preschool room this winter! From acting out winter literature, to learning about arctic animals… the kids are having a blast and of course, learning a lot!
Arctic animal bingo!
We focused in on the penguin for our science day! The kids learned that penguins have a layer of blubber to keep them warm. To help them understand this concept, we did an experiment to show the kids what blubber feels like for the penguins! We had two ice cold bowls of water. One bowl had a bag of coconut oil in it, to act as the blubber. They put one hand in each bowl and decided that the bowl with pretend blubber kept them warmer!
We then put a block between our legs so we could waddle like penguins!
We counted goldfish into the penguins belly’s!
5 Little Snowmen Readers Theatre!
Building shapes and open ended creations with toothpicks and marshmallows.
Letter building with “O” shaped cereal
Getting ready to count and build our towers
Getting our bodies involved on a cold winter day, with a gross motor shape hunt!
Melted snowman art!
Counting out “snowballs” with tongs for a fine motor addition!
Hand Strength and cutting practice
We are humbled by the number of votes that were cast to help earn us Most Loved Preschool Award 2018 from Hulafrog. Thank you to all of our amazing families past and present for continuing to spread the word and support us. Year two of this award makes us feel loved!
Our second semester of enrichment classes have begun and Ms. Joanie’s music class is rockin’! As parents, we want to give our children every opportunity for successful growth. Yet, we don’t want them to grow up too fast! Music allows children to savor the best parts of childhood. There are also many benefits of music participation in the early years. Music encourages children to move! Moving is an integral part of preparing the brain to learn. Music also fosters a sense of community and belonging as well as provides an outlet for self-expression. School readiness is closely linked to music readiness. The same skills and experiences necessary for a child to be ready for music lessons when they are older are the same skills and experiences that enhance and even accelerate academic readiness and success. Listening, identifying patterns, problem-solving, creative thinking, and self-confidence are skills that music develops.
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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