Cooking doesn’t have to involve complex baking. Today the children took over as each child had their own plastic knife and bowl to chop up lots of fruit and stir in a little Cool Whip to create a delicious Ambrosia Salad. Those fine motor skills are coming along as some of the children were able to master the grip and back and fourth motion of the knife! The children enjoyed choosing his/her own fruit and creating their own kitchen masterpiece!
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Beluga Whales live in frigid Arctic waters, but today, they came to life in our classroom! While working on the letter W, the children used their fingerprints to create an ocean scene. When the children were finished, we worked on building the letter W using our “big lines” and magnet boards. While working on the /w/ sound, we also discovered the letters V and X.
Even though our snow has melted, that doesn’t keep us from building our own snowman! Today, we made paper mache snowmen. Mixing equal parts water and flour, the children got ooey gooey by slathering our balloon snowmen with pasty newspaper. This two-part project has a ways to go. Next Thursday, we will get to decorate the snowmen by getting ooey gooey again when making them white (shaving cream anyone?!), and topping them off with their proper decorations. We can’t wait to to see the finished product!
New centers means new ways to learn our letters, letter sounds, practice our numbers, one-to-one correspondence, patterning and shapes. Today, the children learned how to play the new games and activities that are in our centers. They were all eager to try something new!
On the first day back we read Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear? By Bill Martin Jr. The children reenacted the book by playing with different arctic animals.
Getting back into the swing of things means reviewing old routines and practicing procedures. For our small groups, the boys and girls learned new games and activities that are available to them in our centers. Teaching them how the activities and games work ensures that the children are playing the game/activity the correctly, ultimately gaining the educational purpose it is designed for. A new month means new centers, which means new ways to learn!
Welcome back!! It was great to see everyone’s smiling face back in action today! To start the new year off, we introduce new center activities, along with a new January country: Greenland. With a cold climate and lots of white to see, the children have lots of opportunity to explore activities with letters, numbers and shapes that represent snow and ice. In Ms. Leslie’s small group, we played “Flurries or Snowstorm?” The children chose a number, then put the corresponding “snowflakes” onto our winter scene. In Ms. Lori’s small group, she showed the children several ways to build a snowman: rolling balls using playdoh, stacking different sized circles, and tracing a snowman. In Ms. Courtney’s small group, the children used “snow” to trace out the letters V, W and X. We had a snowtastic day!
It’s hard to believe we are on holiday break!! What better way to usher in the holidays than having a party?! Thank you to all of you who were able to make it this morning. The children always enjoy spending time with you while they are in action! Thank you for sharing your children with us. We truly enjoy spending our days teaching, learning and growing with them. We wish you all a safe and very happy holiday. We look forward to seeing everyone in 2011!
Today we read Dream Snow by Eric Carle again. The children were very excited that they remembered the name of the Author.
We discussed The Dream Snow Christmas Tree.
And then we made our own Christmas Tree.
The Farmers animals are named one, two, three, four, and five. We found our own animals and named them!
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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