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!
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
Math is a part of your toddler’s schooling, even at their young age! Matching and sorting are two foundational math skills that your toddlers are learning to utilize just by observing the world around them. We have been practicing these math skills in school all year, and we wanted to show you different ways that we teach these skills in our classroom.
One tool we use with our toddlers is a color mat! We use different colored objects for them to sort onto the corresponding color on the mat. Recently, we used colored letters to sort onto the color mat–sneaking in letter sounds whenever we could 🙂
Going along with our January theme of “winter”, for matching skills practice, we took turns matching patterns on mittens in one of our small groups!
Now, maybe they’ll be able to help you find the match to your mismatched gloves/mittens at home! 😉
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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