Our PreSchool Blog

Our toddler classroom is filled with opportunities to explore, problem solve, create, and learn through play.  Our curriculum theme of the month is winter.  We have used this as a guide to introduce and practice new vocabulary, incorporate our focus of shape (rectangle) and color (white) of the month, practice fine and large motor skills, and build on natural curiosity through using our senses to learn and grow.

Gross Motor Fun inside!  An indoor snowball fight and balancing on a rectangular beam.

Individual discovery tubs are filled with items to discover by touching, pouring, sorting, and scooping.

Polar bear shape sort and a rectangular polar bear craft have been a fun way to learn about arctic animals, shapes, and fine motor skills.

Free choice center opportunities provide toddlers with materials to explore and create igloos and “homes” for arctic animals.

Using our five senses to discover hot cocoa / cold whipped cream and enhance a Maurice Sendak classic Chicken Soup with Rice!

Lacing provides problem solving skills, patience, and practice.

We read the story 10 Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss and listened to the song version by Jason Mraz.  The toddlers had so much fun balancing apples, counting apples, picking apples, sorting apples, bobbing for apples, creating apple crafts, and peeling apples.

Pretend apple pie!

We are so “hoppy” to have had a terrific frog theme inspired orientation week.  The children explored the classroom, played outside, made some new friends, sang Five Little Speckled Frogs, and did a sticker craft.  We are so excited about the year ahead!

We learned all about the polar bear this week! We based many of our activities around this animal. The students fed and counted fish into a polar bear’s mouth, made polar bear puppets and learned about how the polar bear camouflages with its surroundings. The kids took turns camouflaging a toy polar bear with other white objects around the room, as the animal would in its arctic habitat.

We had so much fun talking about our wonderful Earth! We brainstormed ways to keep Earth clean and protect our air, trees, and water. Our preschoolers are impressively green!

We talked all about how important it is to recycle. Next we built with items you can recycle at school or at home. We discussed reusing things with a new purpose, for example building with old boxes instead of blocks.

Then we worked we reused magazines to make art.

Lastly, we discussed what WE could EACH do to help keep Earth healthy. The preschoolers pledged to make sure all garbage makes it in the trash, not waste water while brushing their teeth or washing hands, recycling, and using both sides of paper. Ask your preschooler how they are helping our earth!

The Early 3’s had a fun filled Valentines Day this week! We talked about how Valentines Day is a day to tell all the people you care about how much you love them. The children took turns at group time talking about who they loved! The children talked about loving their mommies, daddies, pets, and friends! During small groups we went on to decorate our valentine bags using stickers and to make special valentines for our parents.

Our Special Valentines for the parents…