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Focused on the letter G, the toddlers got to experience putting a penny into the gum ball machine.  We all guessed what color would come out!  We then created our own gum ball machine craft using colored circle stickers as gum balls.

F is for Fall and H is for Haunted House!  Lots of fine motor skills used to create letter crafts this month!

Whoo Whoo knows about owls and triangles?  Oliver the owl puppet came out to say Whoo Whoo!  Five Little Owls, a triangle owl craft, building triangles, matching triangles, sorting by color, games, and more helped the toddlers learn about owls and triangles!

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.

The month of September has been a study in the shape CIRCLE!  We have colored circles, matched circles, glued circles, played with circle toys, discussed our favorite circle shaped food, sang circle songs, read circle stories, eaten circle crackers and cookies…basically immersed ourselves in circles!

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations start out with a sensory bin of water beads, gold coins, and scoops.

We created leprechaun beards by painting with a fork.

We heard the leprechaun was running around Creative Tots.   The toddler class traveled to the studio to look for him and found gold coins!  We practiced finding and counting treasure.

We continued with our study of green by creating a “green tent” for our color book.

Moving into spring with a sensory bin filled with eggs, butterflies, bunnies, and flowers.  Some children practiced scooping while others sorted by color or type.  The older children began to make patterns (a pre-literacy and math skill).

Matching Eggs…

Matching jelly beans.  Practice with one to one correspondence and color matching.  Also, an exercise in patience.  We had to match them all before we got to eat one as a treat.

Some fine motor skills are practiced when creating washi tape eggs.

Chalk eggs for our new easel.

Gross motor practice….Feed the bunny.

Painting feet for footprint bunnies.

The Lego eating monster only likes legos that are the same color.  The kids took turns

feeding the monster with matching legos.

This monster likes beanbags.  Kids named the color of beanbag before they threw it in!

Although the weather here hasn’t been very “winter-like”, we are still learning about all of the things we do during the winter. We have talked about bundling up to go out in the snow, building a snowman, going sledding, having snowball fights, and having yummy hot chocolate to warm us up from the winter chill.

We practiced matching patterns and colors using different kinds of mittens to match!

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We have been talking about triangles this month in the toddler room, and learning about the 3 sides a triangle has. When learning about shapes, it is always fun to see if they can find every day objects that are made of triangles, like the roof of a house! Below you can see we even used triangles to help make our “‘D’ is for ‘Dinosaur'” alphabet page!

Triangles on triangles!

Matching triangles with different patterns and colors

On one side of the easel, we matched colored mittens.

We’ve been talking about the nursery rhyme “Three Little Kittens” and how the kittens lost their mittens.  So, today we helped the kittens find their mittens in the snow.  As the toddlers found a mitten we talked about it’s color and placed it on the board looking for it’s match.

The early 3’s were putting broken hearts back together this week! They matched the letters J, K, P, and R (our letter of the month) back together to make whole hearts! They had fun trying to figure out which pieces went together.