Today our junior architects designed, drew, and built all kinds of new structures! We used wooden blocks, blocks with shaving cream, translucent blocks on the light table, legos, blankets and chairs, cardboard blocks, magnetic blocks and tinker toys to create our new architecture ideas. Ask your camper what they created today!
As we continue on with our rainforest unit, we have discovered all different kinds of animals that live in the different layers. Today, we used pom poms to make a pattern to create our very own, unique caterpillar. Using an ABABAB pattern, the children chose two colors to make their pattern.
Today, the boys and girls perfected their patterning skills with Ms. Courtney! As Ms. Courtney showed the children how to create an ABABAB pattern, the boys and girls extended their very own.
Touching on social studies, the boys and girls created their very own Australian flag! The blue represents vigilance, truth and loyalty. The white stands for peace and honesty. The red stands for bravery and strength. The boys and girls did an excellent job creating these works of art!
What is round, purple and has sharp spines protruding from it? A sea urchin! Today, the children discovered more marine life as we discusses sea urchins. In our small groups, the boys and girls had the opportunity to make their own out of playdoh. Using number cards, each child pulled a number and added the corresponding number of spines.
Today the children sharpened their scissor skills while cutting out the waves of the ocean. These tricky turns helped reinforce how to turn the paper to get into difficult spots. Holding their hands closer to the portion of the paper that is being cut helps with motor control as well. Creating their own ocean scene challenged their motor skills!
A new month means new activities in our centers! The children had the opportunity to rotate around the centers to learn the new games and activities. Being able to do the activities properly ensures that the children are learning and practicing the skill the activity is meant to teach/reinforce.
Today we made….you guessed it! Patterns! Using our pattern blocks, we created ABABAB patterns using shapes and colors. We also used pattern block templates to discover the shapes and how they work together. They also learned how to use simple objects at home to create a pattern.
With our mitten activity today, the children were eager to not only sort and graph our mittens, but talk about giving the mittens to boys and girls who need them. With so many mittens, the children did an excellent job of sorting them by color and graphing each one by categories: Does it have a design on it? Stripes? Is it a solid color? After sorting the mittens, we then decided which category had the most, and which has the least. We then took the category that had the most (the design category) and counted how many there were. We are so proud of how excited and eager the children were to donate to the children of First Step Home. A big thank you to all of you who brought in your generous mitten donations and for helping us teach your children such a valuable lesson!
Walking through the door this morning, the children were talking about how they have mittens to give other kids who can’t buy there own. It is so heartwarming to hear three and four year old talking about the importance of giving to others. We started our mitten activity by reading The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. As we distributed mittens, the boys and girls sorted them by color. After that, we sorted them into three categories: stripes, solid color and design. Using an oversized graph, the children were graphing whizzes! To finish our graph, the children identified the category with the largest amount of mittens (the design category), and ordered the mittens from numbers one to eleven. We tried on a few different types of mittens, but we all decided it would be best to give to those in need! Thank you very much for all of your generous donations and for helping us teach your child the importance of giving back. We had mitten success!
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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