Our PreSchool Blog

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 🙂

For letter “Ii” week, we dedicated a whole day to ice cream related activities! We built our name with scoops of ice cream, did an ice cream themed uppercase/lowercase letter matching activity, counted ice cream scoops (pom poms) onto numbered cones, ate a neapolitan ice cream snack and voted on which flavor we liked best!

Toddlers use all their senses to explore the world around them.  We spent some time naming the five senses, reading a story about our senses, then using all of our senses to observe a treat in the mystery can.

Hearing.  I shook the mystery can.  We used our ears and listened.  We decided it was a soft sound.

Sight.  I took the lid of the mystery can to give the toddlers a peak.  Inside were lots of round white items.  Marshmallows!

Smell.  We then used our nose to try out our sense of smell.  The marshmallows smelled sweet!

Touch.  We then used our hands to feel the squishy and soft marshmallows.

Taste.  Finally we got to taste the marshmallows.   Yummy!

The morning preschool is continuing to learn about all the letters in the alphabet. We worked on the letter Gg last week, and the letter Hh this week. So many hands on activities and so much fun!

Cooking is a fun way to use all five senses.  Last Friday we made pumpkin mini muffins.  This was an easy three ingredient recipe so we all took a turn adding items (1 box of spice cake mix, 1 can of pumpkin puree, and 4oz of apple sauce (one little snack cup).  Chocolate chips are optional.  We put all the ingredients into a large ziplock bag then squished it all together.  I cut off the corner of the baggie to squeeze into greased mini muffin tin.  It was fun, easy and delicious.  Bake 375 for 18 minutes.  This would be fun to do at home on a cold winter day!

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!

We continued to read our sight word reader, I’m Not Afraid of Anything! today, but in the spirit of Halloween used witch fingers as our “Magic Reading Finger” as we pointed to each word that we read aloud. Sight Word Focus: of, not