The toddlers are enjoying a fabulous fall full of squirrel songs, apple sorting /peeling, rectangle scarecrows, and name building with fall leaves. Our centers this month are designed to give the toddlers the opportunity to explore farm animals, farm books, farm puzzles, new textures in the sensory bin, and “cooking apple pie” in the dramatic play center. We have milked a “cow”, sorted leaves, and continue to enjoy the season through purposeful play.
The toddlers utilized the farm theme to reinforce shape, color, counting, fine motor, and vocabulary skills. We sang Old McDonald and read The Big Red Barn. Our learning environment this month includes farm puzzles, toys, animals, and even a farmer’s market for pretend play.
A square scarecrow was our weekly craft.
We practiced using glue sticks for this craft!
Tractor painting while discussing different colors created a fun sensory experience!
Pigs covered in mud was another fun sensory experience. We watched a video of real pigs rolling in the mud.
Pin the tail on the piggy!
Milk the cow!
Roll the die to see how many wool rolls to put on the sheep.
We have had so much fun with fall and farm activities in the toddler room this month. Lots of sensory experiences have been planned to help explore and learn. An apple peeler provided us with fine motor practice, yummy snack, and cute photo opportunity. Watercolor, glue, and other art mediums were provided to create fall foxes, scarecrows, and leaves. Old McDonald has been a favorite classic to sing and play with instruments. We discussed things that we were thankful for and talked about foods that families eat on Thanksgiving Day. We are so thankful for our toddlers and their families!
We had a fun week at toddler summer camp – Down on the Farm. We sang songs, read farm stories, played games, did crafts, ate special snacks, and played outside! Yeehaw!
My cute chick craft.
Parachute fun!
Kona ice on Wednesday was a big hit!
We also had pink piggies (marshmallows) in the mud (chocolate pudding).
The farm theme has provided some fun center options and activities in the toddler room.
The toddler sensory bin filled with corn kernels and farm animals.
A horse barn has provided a fun place for imaginary play.
We used our sense of hearing to listen to the farm animal sounds!
We have practiced fine motor skills while lacing farm animals!
Fun farm animal magnets were mixed with letters to provide discussion.
Another sensory activity included washing big and little farm animals.
We sorted farm animals by size (big and little) and by color.
Then we acted out our book of the month, I Spy On the Farm, with face puppets.
We have been working hard to strengthen our fine motor skills in the preschool room! Since we just visited Sunrock Farm, we added a farm animal twist to the lesson this week!
The Kprep class has been learning about the parts of a plant, the plant life cycle, what a plant needs to survive and how to grow our very own plant! The students have made individual “Green house’s” and have planted their very own grass seed! We added some crazy faces to our cups so that when grass grows, it will look like our hair!
We are excited to see some results!
We have new centers for the month of April! They are based on our farm habitat theme. The students are having fun exploring them!
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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