Free choice center time
Shapes & Color Bingo
Free choice center time
1:1 correspondence
Rolling the die and determining that each dot represents one marble
Using keys to create musical sounds & dancing to "The Freeze"
Music & Movement with Ms. Lori
Can you do the letter 2?
Music time with Ms. Joanie
Everyone loves go play the drum
Enjoying the fresh air
Using our large and fine motor skills
Practicing our counting using sunflower seeds
Building fine motor skills while counting
Sunflower, sunflower, how do you grow? Our sunflower scientists discovered that seeds need soil, water and sunlight to grow
Enjoying our time in the classroom
Outside time is a great time to build friendships and challenge gross motor skills
We practiced writing our numbers again today in small groups. We then counted out the right number of gumballs to match our number and glued them inside our gumball machine! Tracing numbers aids in our fine motor development and proper pencil grip. It trains our hand to feel comfortable moving in the small movements needed for successful independent writing in the near future! Make sure that if your working with your child at home in writing, that they are using the correct grip. It is easier to train than retrain the brain.
This afternoon during small groups, we worked on our math skills with this snowman counting activity. Each snowman had a number on it’s belly and the kids had to put that many buttons onto their snowman. We are getting really good at our one-to-one correspondence counting!
Today we used our new graphing chart during group time. Each child has their own clip with their name and picture on it which is not only good for for name recognition but also for using their fine motor skills! The question for the day was, “What is your favorite color?” The children each had a turn to come up to the board and pinch their clip on their favorite color ribbon. To end the activity, we counted how many children liked each color and put the corresponding number above each ribbon. We will continue to practice graphing in many different ways.
This afternoon Evelyn was excited to play our new snowball math activity. She is concentrating hard on counting the dots on the dice she rolled so she could put that many snowballs on her snowman!
This week we have been working on number recognition with the number 3. For our arts and craft project the children were able to decorate 3 gingerbread men with glitter and sprinkle glitter on the number 3. We counted each gingerbread man and talked about what the number 3 looks like.
Here is a good rhyme for remembering the number 3.
Round the tree,
Round the tree,
That’s how you make the number 3!
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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