Our PreSchool Blog

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  • Delightful December

    All the colors and senses of the season give the toddlers opportunities to learn through purposeful play.  Hands-on activities and crafts along with a sensory rich environment lead to peer interaction, learning, and fun!

  • Winter Win!

    Our toddler classroom is filled with opportunities to explore, problem solve, create, and learn through play.  Our curriculum theme of the month is winter.  We have used this as a guide to introduce and practice new vocabulary, incorporate our focus of shape (rectangle) and color (white) of the month, practice fine and large motor skills, and build on natural curiosity through using our senses to learn and grow.

     

    Gross Motor Fun inside!  An indoor snowball fight and balancing on a rectangular beam.

    Individual discovery tubs are filled with items to discover by touching, pouring, sorting, and scooping.

    Polar bear shape sort and a rectangular polar bear craft have been a fun way to learn about arctic animals, shapes, and fine motor skills.

    Free choice center opportunities provide toddlers with materials to explore and create igloos and “homes” for arctic animals.

    Using our five senses to discover hot cocoa / cold whipped cream and enhance a Maurice Sendak classic Chicken Soup with Rice!

     

    Lacing provides problem solving skills, patience, and practice.

     

     

     

  • Hot and Cold

    The toddlers participated in some fun activities to learn the concept of hot and cold using senses.  We practiced scooping with a hot cocoa sensory bin.

    A special snack of “hot” cocoa and cold ice cream provided a sweet way to learn about opposites through the sense of taste and touch.

  • Chicken Soup with Rice

    There is nothing better on a cold day than some warm and comforting soup! We read the book, “Chicken Soup with Rice” by Maurice Sendak, and then our friends helped make some chicken soup…with rice! They each took a turn adding in a different ingredient.

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    Our friends got to try chicken soup with rice, along with rectangle crackers at snack time!

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    Our art project was also focused on chicken soup with rice, so our friends used different colored rice and glue to make a bowl of pretty colored chicken soup with rice! They had fun using their fine motor skills to scoop the rice, pour it on the paper, and then shake it until it stuck to the glue.

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