Ms. Cally dipped cotton balls in a flour, water, food coloring mixture then baked them to make the perfect exploration activity.
Preschool is an important year to work on concentration and focus.
Providing multiple tools for little hands to work with strengthens different muscles and promotes exploration and discovery.
The preschoolers strengthened their fine motor muscles today while practicing letter recognition and letter sounds. With warm weather finally upon us this is a great way to practice letters, numbers, shapes or names in the driveway at home! Painbrush + bowl of water and you have some entertained and engaged preschoolers. Have fun exploring while working on important skills!
The preschoolers have been practicing one-to-one correspondence. It is important to always start at the top and count left to right. When we reach the end of a row we need to start back at the beginning of the next row. Teaching children a method for counting can help with accuracy. It is easy to forget which objects we have counted when we are just pointing in any order we want! We rolled the dice, counted how many we got, then counted using our magic finger to discover which animal we needed to color. This is a really important foundational skill for math in general. Games such as Candyland, Monopoly, and Chutes & Ladders are great ways to practice one-to-one correspondence. Any time a child has to count objects individually is a GREAT way to practice at home!
We focused on independent letter formation and orientation during our sight word study today. What an amazing job they did! I’m so very proud of their hard work and perseverance. They are on their way to becoming independent writers ready for Kindergarten.
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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