Our PreSchool Blog

We had music with Ms. Joanie today!

Ms. Joanie gave the toddlers jingle bells to play.

Toddlers love to play – and at Tots we do tons of fun learning activities that teach important developmental skills every day.  This month we are focused on developing the concept top, middle and bottom. Take a look at our decorated tree as the toddler’s worked on placing the star at the top, the ornaments in the middle, and the presents at the bottom.

Here’s a website of month-by-month tips that will help you maneuver the ins and outs of toddler growth and development.

http://www.whattoexpect.com/growth-and-child-development-tips.aspx#

Tape Resist Art

Ms. Diana put pieces of tape on the toddlers’ paper to look like a snowflake, and then the toddlers used their hands to paint over it. When the paint dried, Ms. Diana peeled the tape off to reveal a unique piece of resist art.

But the fun doesn’t have to stop there. At home you can let your toddler place stickers on paper and paint or color over top of it.  For more project ideas check out http://handsonaswegrow.com/13-tape-resist-art-projects/

After reading the stories about all the different gingerbread friends throughout the month of December, it was time to try our hand at making our own.  We measured and mixed the ingredients, stirred and stirred, rolled the dough then cut them out.  We knew that the recipe said to cook them for a whole eight minutes, no more no less and NO PEEKING.  We put them in the oven, but when we looked to see if they were done…our gingerbread friends were GONE!  Our tray was empty.  We quickly put our coats on and began searching outside incase they had slipped out while we weren’t looking.  They were nowhere to be found!  After searching high and low, we finally found them hiding in our classroom.  Thank goodness the fox didn’t find them before we did!