Our PreSchool Blog

It has been a month since the start of the school year so our students have gotten a chance to familiarize themselves with their different choices for free play, and most already have favorites! Talk with your child about which center they enjoy playing at the most each day 🙂

We love learning through play, especially when doing art projects! We have been incorporating the color yellow into several art activities so far this month. Encouraging young children to use different types of tools for art is great for their creative thinking and sensory skills. We got to smell the lemon and taste it, before using it to paint–using multiple senses to reinforce our lesson!

Keep following along to learn about some of our small group activities, and for a sneak peak at alphabet books and color books!

Welcome to the Toddler Room! We are so excited to be starting another school year with our new toddler friends, and some familiar faces as well! We are already learning so much about each of your children, and we cannot wait to see them thrive in our classroom this year.

At orientation week, we wanted our friends to get to know their new classroom, and the environment in which they’ll be spending their days. They got to explore some of our centers and all of the different toys and activities we have for them to play with around the room!

Recess time is always full of smiles and giggles! Our friends had fun with their own bubbles, the sandbox, toys, and our big slides!

We also had some mama and baby animals to wash, some play-dough for them to explore, and they were able to do some free art using stickers and chalk!

We gave them a sneak peak at what our group times will look like, reading a book called, “Little Bea” by Daniel Roode, and doing a finger play activity with bees.
Our song we sang went like this:
“Here is the beehive. Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees!
Watch and you’ll see them come out of the hive…
One, two, three, four, five!”

It was such a great first week, and we look forward to getting into our routine as the weeks go on! Thank you for sharing your sweet kiddos with us! 🙂

In the toddler classroom, our students have an opportunity for “free play/center time” two times in their morning. This means that they are allowed to choose in which center they would like to play. This time for free choice is a great way for toddlers to use their own independence to pick their activity. We change our centers each month, so our friends will always have new centers to explore. We have so many different centers for them to choose from!

Sensory Tub

Manipulative Center

Art Center

Light Table

Mirror Table

Train Table

Dramatic Play

Kitchen Center

Library Center

Pre-academic Center

Block Center