Love is in the air this week…especially in the form of counting and patterning Hershey Kisses! Using an ABABAB pattern the children helped create and extend our red-purple-red-purple pattern. Next, we practiced counting numbers eight through fourteen by picking a number, then counting out the corresponding number of Hershey Kisses.
Happy Valentine’s Day! These little heart breakers had a love-filled morning with our Valentine activities. Using our color recognition and sorting skills, the boys and girls sorted their very own box of candy hearts on their candy heart graphs. Ask your little valentine how all of the hearts were sorted. The children then had the opportunity to pass out their Valentine’s to each child. The boys and girls really enjoyed celebrating friendships!
Today we made….you guessed it! Patterns! Using our pattern blocks, we created ABABAB patterns using shapes and colors. We also used pattern block templates to discover the shapes and how they work together. They also learned how to use simple objects at home to create a pattern.
Walking through the door this morning, the children were talking about how they have mittens to give other kids who can’t buy there own. It is so heartwarming to hear three and four year old talking about the importance of giving to others. We started our mitten activity by reading The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. As we distributed mittens, the boys and girls sorted them by color. After that, we sorted them into three categories: stripes, solid color and design. Using an oversized graph, the children were graphing whizzes! To finish our graph, the children identified the category with the largest amount of mittens (the design category), and ordered the mittens from numbers one to eleven. We tried on a few different types of mittens, but we all decided it would be best to give to those in need! Thank you very much for all of your generous donations and for helping us teach your child the importance of giving back. We had mitten success!
Our weather has taken quite a chilly turn the past few days. The children enjoyed every second of it on Wednesday during recess. Because of the change in weather we talked about how weather changes quickly and what causes it on Wednesday during group time. We used an interactive weather maker to create all sorts of wild weather by changing the humidity and temperature gauges. To round out our patterning unit in math we recognized and extended weather patterns on our magnetic board. Weather is wild and wonderful!
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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