The preschoolers worked on letter recognition and letter sounds while strengthening their fine motor muscles today. As we traced each letter we dipped our feather in paint, sang our letter sounds song, and traced over the letters. What a fun way to practice so many skills!
Here comes the cold! Coat season is in full swing and your preschooler is learning how to put theirs on all by themselves. “The Preschool Flip” is an easy way for your little one to gain some independence, confidence, and responsibility. Start with the hood or collar of coat at your toes open side up. Slip arms into arm holes and slowly flip the coat up over your head. Practice, practice, practice! We also learned how to hang up our belongings so nothing gets lost at the cubbies. Please label everything you send to school! Gross Motor Movement is so important at this age, we will be heading to the playground on days 32 degrees and above. Hats and mittens, please! 220 fingers is just too many to slip into all those little spots in gloves.
Take a look at what your little one is learning by playing in our classroom centers this month!
When children build at the Block Center they explore with their imagination while recreating ‘The First Thanksgiving’. Preschoolers enjoy peer interaction through parallel play or socializing and creating with a classmate.
While exploring at the Sensory Tub children exercise problem solving skills, natural curiosity, and teamwork. Preschoolers connect real world materials with experience and senses while developing and understanding of volume and capacity. Pouring, scooping, sifting, and digging strengthen fine motor muscles as well.
Independence is the main skilled fostered at the Practical Life Skills Center. Preschoolers strengthen fine motor muscles while practicing every day life tasks such as buttoning and zipping or pouring and scrubbing vegetables. They develop hand-eye coordination and other similar skills needed as handwriting foundation. These skills will promote confidence as your little takes over more responsibility with self-help skills.
At the Light Table, children discover concepts of shape, size and spatial awareness. They exhibit motor control, coordination, and balance. Preschoolers imagine and create together at this center.
Paging through picture books in the classroom Library gives children the opportunity to tell their own story. Exposure to different types of print sparks a love for literature. “Reading” books at any age helps with comprehension even just by looking at the pictures. Letter recognition, letter sounds and the association between both concepts are developed while exploring books.
The Art Center is the place to express creativity and build a sense of accomplishment. Open-ended art activities give preschoolers the chance to explore their interests and create masterpieces all by themselves. Fine motor and planning skills are key concepts at this center. I know many of you are benefitting from beautiful, hand-crafted jewelry this month! 🙂
These are just some of our classroom centers. Ask you preschooler about their favorite center and see what they discovered playing at school!
We counted dots on dice to decide how many leaves to put on our fall tree.
Name Recognition is an important skill at the preschool age. Every morning students need to find their name on the cubbies to hang up their belongings. This daily exposure is key for developing and understanding of the letters and letter sounds within their names. This week we focused on names in a few different ways. Ms. Cally helped the preschoolers find the letters of their names on blocks and build each name together. They discussed each letter within their names and discovered letter sounds. You can make letter blocks out of legos with some masking tape and a marker. Another great way to practice name recognition is “letter hunting” in magazines. Once you have found and cut out each letter in your child’s name, glue them onto small pieces of paper. You can scramble the letters up and put them in order together. There are many ways to explore names at home!
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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