The morning preschool has been busy learning the letters of the alphabet. Each week we focus on one letter, and integrate lots of creative activities and children’s literature to help us learn.
The morning preschool has been busy learning the letters of the alphabet. Each week we focus on one letter, and integrate lots of creative activities and children’s literature to help us learn.
The afternoon Preschool class read the story Corduroy and completed activities that revolved around the “button” theme in the story! We love to use literature to help create thematic lesson plans!
We had a blast this week celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday! Each day we chose one of his books to focus our lessons and snacks around. These books included: Horton Hears a Who, The Lorax, Wacky Wednesday, Hop on Pop, and The Cat in the Hat.
Monday: Horton Hears a Who
We made our own snack to represent the clover Horton carries!
Tuesday: The Lorax
We planted green bean seeds in our Lorax cups!
Fine motor truffula trees
Truffula seeds (aka Trix cereal) for snack!
Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday
The kids and teachers dressed “wacky” for the day, even the classroom was “wacky”!
Coloring under the tables… How wacky!
“Wacking” specific letters with a fly swatter!
Wacky Wednesday snack: jell-o that appears to be red koolaid! We tricked them all!
Thursday: Hop on Pop
We practiced our rhyming skills by hopping on words that rhymed and trying to pop the bubble wrap!
Popcorn snack!
Friday: Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss sensory tubs!
There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat…
Shared Reading
Sensory Tubs: Search and Find Everything the Old Lady Swallowed
Journal Entries: What do you love about Halloween?
Jack Frost Costume!
Trick or Treating
Pink River Dolphin Costume
Does the candy sink or float?
We have some very brave eaters in the early 3’s! Our friends had a great time tasting green eggs and ham to celebrate St. Patty’s Day as well as Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!
With each new month and theme means new library books! The Early 3’s explored each new book from cover to cover. It is important to expose young children to a variety of books including fiction, non-fiction, nursery rhymes, etc. When young children are exposed to a variety of literature they are not only able to build on their knowledge and vocabulary, but are also able to find genres that interest them. This is a great way to promote early reading! This month we have books about gardening and vegetables, stories about garden creatures, and fun books with different pop-outs and textures!
We followed the characters, Iguana, Pot-bellied pig, turtle, and rooster through the book Cook-a-doodle-doo today as they baked Great Granny’s (The Little Red Hen) famous strawberry shortcake. Iguana wanted to measure the flour with a ruler instead of a measuring cup while pot-bellied pig waited to be the “taster” at the end. We then tried out the Granny’s recipe and boy was it delicious!
Pre-Writing Skills
Dancing Raisins Science Experiment
Literature Combined with Music makes Learning Fun!
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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