The Toddlers have been working on sorting over the past couple of months. This week the boys and girls worked on sorting hearts by shape and color. The children were put into small groups and practiced taking turns sorting into different piles. They’re doing a great job!
The Early 3’s children were working together to paint our box pink for “Hearts for Haiti.
The studio toddlers had a fantastic February. We focused on the color pink and heart shape in honor of Valentine’s Day. Pink hearts were repeated during games, finger plays, crafts, sensory bins, songs, stories, and more. The toddlers practiced fine motor skills making love bug hats, lacing hearts, and painting bags during our Valentine’s Day party. We also incorporated purposeful play throughout our study of space. The toddlers loved dressing up as astronauts, blasting off rockets, an astronaut obstacle course, stamping letters to spell their names on rockets, puzzles, books and scooping in our space sensory bins. The Bengals heading to the Super Bowl was all the rage in Cincinnati so we had a class pep rally learning about Bengal tigers and creating a keepsake craft. A fun February for all!
We have been working hard building our number concepts and recognition. We have been learning to touch the item we are counting as we say a number and that we can only say 1 number as we touch it. We use all sorts of things in school to count and blocks and plastic hearts have been a go to the last few weeks!
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 embraced our October theme whole heartedly this month! What’s better than giving academic time a Halloween twist?? Here’s a taste of what we did this month!
Spider Counting!
Building letters with pumpkin seeds
Letter building with candy corn
Halloween cutting center
Feeding the Alphabet Zombie (he loves his letters!)
Acting out the Five Little Pumpkins
Spider swatting and number recognition!
Fall Number Mats
Wicked letter find and sort!
Silly Monster 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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