Practicing our letter formation is fun, but practicing them in Cool Whip is even better! Today, in Ms. Lori’s small group, the boys and girls practiced writing the letters V, X and W in a small tray of Cool Whip. Working from left to right, top to bottom, the children enjoyed this memorable experience!
During small groups today, our focus was the math concept of sorting. We sorted ice by their shape…it was COLD!
We used roller paints today to write our new sight word…make. It was a fun way to write our new sight word!
In part two of our snowman building, our snowmen received a blast of arctic snow, along with a face, scarf and buttons! It was time to get ooey and gooey again with shaving cream and glue as we applied snow to our dry paper mache. Everyone dug in as we put our finishing touches on our snowmen masterpieces!
Scrimshaw is the art of carving pictures into whale teeth. Using sharp objects, sailors would spend hours carving scenes into the hard teeth. Today, the children used a bar of soap to represent a whale tooth. Each child carved a “W” for whale into a bar of soap. Tapping on our own teeth gave us an idea of how difficult it must be to carve into real whale teeth!
The Early 3’s matched upper and lowercase letters in small groups on Fridays.
Click on the photo for an interactive online upper and lowercase matching game
Welcome back!! It was great to see everyone’s smiling face back in action today! To start the new year off, we introduce new center activities, along with a new January country: Greenland. With a cold climate and lots of white to see, the children have lots of opportunity to explore activities with letters, numbers and shapes that represent snow and ice. In Ms. Leslie’s small group, we played “Flurries or Snowstorm?” The children chose a number, then put the corresponding “snowflakes” onto our winter scene. In Ms. Lori’s small group, she showed the children several ways to build a snowman: rolling balls using playdoh, stacking different sized circles, and tracing a snowman. In Ms. Courtney’s small group, the children used “snow” to trace out the letters V, W and X. We had a snowtastic day!
During the holidays, there is a big need for scissors….mostly wrapping all those presents! Today the children practiced their scissor skills by cutting fringe for their place mats. Starting with scissor safety, the boys and girls used their fine motor skills to make one cut snips create fringe to glue to the end of the place mat. The children were so proud of how successful they were with all of their snips!
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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