Happy New Year from the studio toddler room! The weather has kept us busy indoors this month but we have filled our days with crafts, discovery bins, winter centers, stories, dancing, and learning through play. Our color focus is white and our shape is the triangle so we incorporated these focus targets into most of our centers, small groups, whole group and purposeful play.
Our pretend veterinary office has provided fun interaction and vocabulary. The children love to pretend to take care of and feed the animals.
We create centers for sorting, exploring and sharing. The month of January has been packed full of fun center exploration.
Along with our winter themed activities, we are learning about “responsibility”. To help teach this, the students each have a classroom job they are responsible for weekly! They have really taken ownership of these responsibilities. We are promoting independence and autonomy in the classroom!
Cutting icicles (we brought a real one in from outside to observe and touch)!
We had so much fun in the Toddler room this month! Focusing on the color white – we made sparkle white playdough, had white food for snack, and created white collage art. Triangles are the shape of the month this January. We used hands-on manipulatives (craft sticks and pretzel sticks) to create triangles and practiced with glue sticks to create a class mural of triangles. Our study of polar animals led to some yummy snacks, a fun obstacle course through the arctic circle, matching animals, songs, stories, and fun!
There wasn’t enough snow outside to build a real snowman out of snow, so we improvised and created our own in the classroom.
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