We had a quick turnaround from spring break to Easter. The toddlers spent the week doing chick prints, egg matching, egg hunts, washi tape egg crafts, and matching bunny tails.
We had a quick turnaround from spring break to Easter. The toddlers spent the week doing chick prints, egg matching, egg hunts, washi tape egg crafts, and matching bunny tails.
The toddlers have focused on one letter each week of school. We review the letter each day and discuss the sound, shape, and words that begin with letter of the week. Using our five senses we try to provide opportunities to see, touch, smell, hear, and even taste items that begin with the letter of the week. We do crafts, read stories, fill the mystery can, and use hands on activities to reinforce the letter of the week.
U is for Unicorn, Umbrella, and Ukulele
V is for Vase
W is for Watermelon
X is for Xylophone and X-Ray
Y is for Yak, Yellow, and YoYo (we read a cute book call Yak and Gnu)
Z is for Zipper, ZigZag, Zoo, and Zebra
We will a review of all the letters while we read and do a craft with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom in May.
We had a colorful time studying the rainbow during the month of March. Check out some of our rainbow activities below:
Cereal color sort
Ribbon Rainbows!
Rainbow watercolor name painting
Finally, a rainbow obstacle course for some indoor recess!
To celebrate St. Patty’s Day, we made shamrock wands and talked about the color green
We made our letter V is for Vase letter craft and during whole group we sorted flowers by color and put them in a vase of our own!
March was not only about the color green, but we also studied the rainbow! We talked about how a rainbow is made and which colors make up the rainbow. Below you can see all of the rainbow color sorting we did! Sorting by color is a skill we incorporate a lot with our toddler learners. It practices color recognition and matching.
Some of the toys in our centers and sensory bins were also rainbow-themed. We love to see them learning through play!
Of course we had to do some rainbow art projects. We read the book “What Makes a Rainbow” by Betty Schwartz and then made our own rainbow using ribbon and a fluffy cloud. This was a challenging art project for our little learners and they did an excellent job with it!
Some other rainbow art projects:
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.
Below you can check out pictures of our Valentine’s Day pajama party we had in the Studio class! We passed out Valentine’s to each of our friends, decorated + ate cookies, played in sensory bins, and sang + danced to some Valentine’s Day music! You could feel the love. 🙂
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.
February was all about things that “go”! We learned about trains, cars, boats and airplanes. We created fun crafts around those different modes of transportation. Some of the crafts focused on color or name recognition, while others focused on fine motor skills, such as using stickers or tape to decorate cars and roads! Following directions is also something we practice at each small group time. Check out below some of our learners hard at work, creating!
Name trains:
Creating Cars + Roads:
Name planes! (names redacted for safety reasons 🙂 )
Transportation sort: Air, Land, or Water?
Hands on car activities! Driving our cars on a “road”, washing our cars, and parking our cars in their colored parking lots!
We worked on art projects that reflected our theme of winter + hit on our objectives. We talked about how the snowman has a top, middle, and bottom. We built a snowman on our felt board as a whole group and then we reinforced that concept by letting them make their own snowman craft with a top, middle, and bottom!
Small group activities help our students to learn our different focuses for the month, as well as taking turns and following directions.
We did a sensory study with hot and cold. We sorted hot and cold items on our magnet board. We then had hot chocolate with cold whipped cream (and marshmallows of course 🙂 ) We then made our own hot chocolate craft
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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