March is off to a great start! From rainbow art, to counting gold coins.. St. Patrick’s Day lessons are in full swing!
March is off to a great start! From rainbow art, to counting gold coins.. St. Patrick’s Day lessons are in full swing!
What does a plant look like? What does it need to grow? We learned about the parts of a plant, the plant life cycle and the difference between fruits and vegetables during a visit from the Cincinnati Museum Center. We rolled up our sleeves and spent some time digging in the dirt and planted our own seed to take home to add to our growing garden!
We celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday last week in the preschool room and each day brought a fun, new, crazy adventure! We hopped on Pop and Pretended to be the Cat in the Hat, we rhymed and counted and learned about keeping our earth healthy, we even planted our very own Lorax seed! I think our most favorite day was Wacky Wednesday for sure though! The room had crazy, wacky things at every turn like the cubby tags upside down, a cup on the door handle, our soap was in the tissue box, and furniture was all moved all over the place! Our activities for small groups were even wacky! We played “WHACK” the letter with a flyswatter, we read a Christmas story in the tower, and we colored pictures upside down underneath the table! It was an awesome week of fun, silly activities and lots of sensory learning fun too!
In the toddler room, we discussed the difference between daytime and nighttime during our large group. While in small group, the students sorted activities by things that we do during the day (ride bikes, eat breakfast, etc.) and things we do at night ( sleep, watch fireworks, dinner, etc.). We then enforced the the idea by completing a daytime/nighttime craft.
We have also been having fun working on our art show projects. Here is a peak at our collaborative piece. See everyone on Friday night!
On Tuesday the K Prep students continued their Dr. Seuss study with another popular book, The Lorax. We learned how important it is to take care of OUR earth and some simple ways to help keep it healthy. We started by planting a green bean seed and learned how to take care of it so it grows healthy and strong.
The K Prep class celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday this week! On Monday we read Horton Hears a Who, and created a truffula tree treat and craft!
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.
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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