Our PreSchool Blog

The toddlers have focused on one letter each week of school.  We review the letter each day and discuss the sound, shape, and words that begin with letter of the week.  Using our five senses we try to provide opportunities to see, touch, smell, hear, and even taste items that begin with the letter of the week.  We do crafts, read stories, fill the mystery can, and use hands on activities to reinforce the letter of the week.

U is for Unicorn, Umbrella, and Ukulele

V is for Vase

W is for Watermelon

X is for Xylophone and X-Ray

Y is for Yak, Yellow, and YoYo  (we read a cute book call Yak and Gnu)

Z is for Zipper, ZigZag, Zoo, and Zebra

We will a review of all the letters while we read and do a craft with  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom in May.

Celebrating the season with a star print craft.

Star cookie cutters with red playdough enforce our shape and color of the month.

Practice matching colors with holiday bows and trees.

J is for jingle bells.

K is for kiss under the mistletoe.

Holiday themed centers provide an opportunity to engage the toddlers in pretend play, sharing, and fine motor skills.

More crafts of holiday fun.

During circle time we discussed our favorite things about Christmas.  The toddlers placed their picture under their favorite thing.

For letter “Ii” week, we dedicated a whole day to ice cream related activities! We built our name with scoops of ice cream, did an ice cream themed uppercase/lowercase letter matching activity, counted ice cream scoops (pom poms) onto numbered cones, ate a neapolitan ice cream snack and voted on which flavor we liked best!

From candy corn art and letter building, to leaf sorting, to spider web letter identification, to pumpkin seed letter matching… Fall is officially in full swing in the Preschool room!

We have been making our way through the alphabet in the toddler room.  Each week we focus on a letter.  We read a letter book, sing letter songs, watch letter videos, hold and count items that begin with the weekly letter, do a letter craft using fine motor skills, and even do a sensory activity focusing on the letter.

A is for Ant

B is for Button

C is for Cat

D is for Donut

E is for Eagle

In Preschool, we are practicing our letter formation in creative ways so we can get ready to write!

This week our activities revolved around the zoo…From letters and numbers to crafts and science lessons!

To help us with correct scissor grip, we put smiley face stickers on our thumbs. The goal is to keep our thumbs to the sky, always looking to see that smiley face!

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.

Easter came early this year at Creative Tots! Our Preschool class celebrated by doing Easter themed activities all week!