For the month of December the Early 3’s are working hard to recognize the letters B and E. We have been singing the letter B and E songs, talking about whose name contains these letters, and doing lots of fun activities to immerse ourselves in the letters. One of our favorite activities was stamping the letters on paper using blocks and paint!
Happy Thanksgiving!! Enjoy the holiday with your family and eat lots of turkey!
The Early 3’s have been working on recognizing squares this month! Today they used their fine motor skills to stick red glitter squares inside of bigger squares. They worked on counting and one to one correspondence as they counted each square.
All month long the preschoolers will be working on sorting. Introduction to simple classifying and sorting builds a foundation for math skills. We had fun separating the beans by color today.
Click on the photo to learn how to write the letter N with your preschooler.
For the first day of November we started studying Native Americans with a festive craft. The preschoolers practiced their scissor skills and strengthened fine motor muscles while creating a fringe head-dress.
This morning in preschool we had lots of Halloween fun! We made a spider web from tape and threw cotton balls to see how many “bugs” our web could catch. This is a very easy activity to play in a door way at home. Good hand-eye coordination practice as well!
Fine motor, fine motor, fine motor! We put those little muscles to work while making a Halloween jack-o-lantern.
Hope everyone had a blast at the Harvest Festival on Friday! What a great turnout!
Enjoy Trick-or-Treating tonight!!
To continue with our theme of farm this month, we talked about sheep at group time today. We read the story,”Sam Sheep Can’t Sleep” and practiced singing “Baa Baa Black Sheep”. Then, during art time we painted our hands black to make the sheep body. Once the paint dried, the boys and girls used their fine motor skills to pull apart and place cotton balls on the body.They turned out great, see the final product below!
Fine motor skills are an important part of development and school readiness. Today the Toddlers practiced tuning these skills by coloring with crayons. Scribbling is one of our fine motor objectives for this month. Children learn that they can express themselves through lines, shape, and squiggles. Allow time for coloring at home and see what your child can create!
We are working on vertical and horizontal lines in the early 3’s room so we raced our cars down horizontal and vertical racetracks! The children loved going forward and backward on the tracks with their cars. This pre-writing activity is a fun way to help your child learn to control their fine motor muscles since they have to keep the car on the narrow track.
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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