The toddlers celebrated Earth Day this April by creating headbands and sorting trash versus recycling. We also have sorted flowers, talked about the parts of a flower, created a name garden, painted bottle print flowers, and planted seeds. To round out our unit the toddlers painted a flower picture to put on the back of a special gift for Mother’s Day.
Thank you so much to all our Creative Tots families for working hard at home to help us to help your child learn and grow. We appreciate all the pictures of your children using the packets, plans, and materials to distance teach! It is obvious through the pictures that our toddlers are making the most of this time!
Our study of gardens and flowers aligned nicely with our handmade Mother’s Day Cards. The toddlers used stickers and drawn stems for the inside of the card while a sweet fingerprint bouquet was on the front. We also created flowers using the bottom of a bottle and stickers.
We moved onto our focus on water and the ocean using sensory tubs and crafts.
Summer Sweets: making muffins, creating popsicles, and ice cream match!
Summer!!!
The toddlers shape study this month is the oval. We have done lots of oval egg crafts and activities this month. We have decorated an egg with washi tape, done an egg jelly bean match, and then of course an egg hunt!
Bunnies hop into our spring curriculum as well. A ride on the big slide is fun for all!
Our discovery bins, sensory bin, and home living center focused on the garden and its bounty. The bbq grill and veggies made for fun pretend “grill outs”.
Fine motor skills: lacing flowers!
Working on one more page of our color book. We are putting the pages together for an end of year keepsake.
This week was “bug week”! Each day the students learned about a different bug. All of the activities and snacks for the day revolved around that specific bug! Check out these thematic lessons below!
Measuring with gummy worms
At group time, I demonstrated how a bee goes from flower to flower drinking their nectar and collecting pollen to bring back to the bee hive.
I then had the kids hold out their hands to act as flowers.
What does a plant look like? What does it need to grow? We learned about the parts of a plant, the plant life cycle and the difference between fruits and vegetables during a visit from the Cincinnati Museum Center. We rolled up our sleeves and spent some time digging in the dirt and planted our own seed to take home to add to our growing garden!
April’s theme in Preschool Prep is based around gardening and insects. We have integrated this theme into our daily curriculum and are having so much fun!
*Fine motor insect sorting
The Very Hungry Caterpillar story retelling
Bug Fossils!
Each day this month we have done a “Daily News” segment in the classroom 🙂 We first have someone introduce the news, and then we work together to figure out what month and day of the week it is. Next, we choose a student to be our “weather kid” for the day. This person gets to wear a special badge and report the weather based on what they see outside and how it feels! Lastly, we complete a feelings chart where the students pick a face that mimics how they are feeling that day (all of the children have picked the happy face so far)!
Our weather girl reporting her findings!
Spring is finally here!!
We have been discussing the change of seasons and what might start growing outside. Together we planted seeds and played in the dirt with shovels and rakes.
Check out Creative Tots SUMMER CAMP!! “Green Kids: From seed to salad” will be exploring all types of plants and seeds and what we can do with them!
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