This week we read an focused our small groups on the adorable story Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett.
Ms. Cally played “Listen & Color” and helped the preschoolers practice their listening skills. This is great prep for following directions and understanding classroom dynamic. So much of traditional schooling is based on auditory learning. Preschoolers need to practice being able to listen not only to directions, but for directions as well. We structure our classroom to give cues to call attention such as flashing the lights or clapping our hands. This helps create awareness for what is happening around us in the classroom. Ms. Cally instructed the preschoolers to ‘color the star orange’ or ‘find the spoon and color it purple’. This is a great activity to do at home with your little one!
Next with Ms. Lori we practiced our counting skills. Each child had a turn to roll the dice and count how many dots they had. Then we colored the spot on the gingerbread baby that had the matching number on it. This was a fun way to count, work on number recognition and strengthen fine motor muscles!
In Ms. Courtney’s group, the preschoolers practiced number recognition. On each gingerbread baby was a number. Their job was to count the right amount of pom poms to decorate the gingerbread baby. This is a great task for hand-eye coordination.
This was the first of our December Gingerbread Study. We are very excited to explore more stories!
This is a great way to practice one-to-one correspondence with your preschooler at home. Use any blocks or legos and masking tape to create a fun and extremely helpful counting game. The more practice the better when it comes to learning numbers!
Any time your preschooler has the opportunity to count individual objects is wonderful practice. Encourage your little one to count anything and everything!
Today the preschoolers practiced number recognition.
Next, we showed off our counting skills.
Finally, we strengthened our fine motor muscles as we balanced just the right amount of penguins on the glacier.
The preschoolers practiced number recognition and counting skills today while choosing pom poms to decorate their gingerbread man!
Then we practiced sorting while we put our pom poms back into the bowls they belong in.
Practice counting with your preschooler at home, they LOVE this silly video!
I’m sure you little one shared with you that the Smartboard company finally came to fix our fabulous Smartboard! I don’t know who was more lost without it, the preschoolers or me?? Here are our favorite videos we have been singing, dancing, and learning with in the classroom.
Everybody Sing the Alphabet with Me
Enjoy learning while have fun with your preschool at home!
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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