This month in the Toddler room we are all about the Farm! The children have had so much fun dressing up like cowboys, playing in the farmers market and feeding the farm animals in the sensory tub. More farm activities to come!
This month in the Toddler room we are all about the Farm! The children have had so much fun dressing up like cowboys, playing in the farmers market and feeding the farm animals in the sensory tub. More farm activities to come!
This week the boys and girls did some pumpkin exploration using their senses! The children were able to touch the pumpkin inside and out, smell it, decided what color it was using their eyes, listened to Ms. Laurel thumping on the pumpkin, but we did not taste the pumpkin!
Today was all about spiders! Ms. Laurel brought in a daddy long leg spider for all the boys and girls to see during group time. Everyone was fascinated by the spider! We counted the spiders legs and talked about things that would be stuck on a spiders web. We read the story Spider on the floor by Bill Russell. Then the children had a chance to go up to the board and stick a “fly” on our spider web. It was very sticky!
Our group time activity this week is all about triangles! During group time the boys and girls stood on a triangle that Ms. Laurel taped to the floor. Then, the children counted the sides of the triangle. After that, they had a chance to come up to the board and match a triangle. The boys and girls were very busy!
This week during group time we read Autumn Orange by Christianne C. Jones. Ms. Laurel had a bag full of different items and each child was given a chance to pull out an object to identify. We encouraged the boys and girls to tell the class what they had found! Everything was orange!
We are introducing spiders this month! In the toddler room, we have fun doing activities that engage the boys and girls with developing their fine motor skills. With this activity the children had a chance to put the spiders on the web and take them off. Some of the boys and girls did not even want to touch the spiders! It was a very sticky web!
During group time we are reading We are all alike…We are all different by the Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergartners. Today we talked about how we are all alike because we all have eyes but we are also different because are eyes are different colors. The children had a chance to come up to the board and put their name next to brown eyes, green eyes or blue eyes.
With our study of Ponds well under way, it was time to learn about a turtle!!!
The Red-eared Slider Turtle made a trip to our classroom. They don’t have any teeth or saliva. Their shells are different than a Painted Turtle.
“I see it’s red ears!!!”
We drew a big circle to make our turtle’s shell.
We are so excited to take home out Red-eared Slider. Be sure to ask your kiddos some fun facts!
Today we read the book I can be anything! by Jerry Spinelli. The boys and girls favorite page was to be a puddle stomper! In dramatic play the children can dress up to be bakers or pretend to be a mommy or daddy and take care of babies. We love to use our imagination!
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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