Our PreSchool Blog

Our Habitat study begins close to home with the pond. Science in K Prep revolves around something all children love: animals and nature! Learning from nature engages children’s powers of observation. Animals become the teachers and children are free to wonder, speculate, and build on their experiences with animals at the zoo and in nature. 

The toddlers used their senses to explore and learn about zoo animals this week.  The distance learning packet included a one to one correspondence mat for sorting animal crackers, animal masks to use during their classroom live zoom,  Z is for Zebra materials to complete the alphabet, and zoo animal movement activity cards!

Our ocean study included a cupcake wrapper craft, sorting goldfish by color, a video recording of the book Swimmy, and some “growing” ocean animals to place in the sensory tub of water.

The distance packets this week also included five little ducks for retelling the song, materials to make a frog craft, and lily pads for hopping to engage our toddlers in learning about pond animals.

We rounded out the year by sending home rainbow waterbeads, toddler trail mix suggestions, lacing necklace materials, name building materials, and paint to complete the end of year personalized color book!

Thank you to all the parents for helping us to help your toddlers grow and learn.  Thumbs up to year full of learning, fun, and smiles!

The K Prep students have been learning all about the pond habitat this month. We finished up the unit by creating a pond habitat to take home.

With our study of Ponds well under way, it was time to learn about a turtle!!!

The Red-eared Slider Turtle made a trip to our classroom.  They don’t have any teeth or saliva.  Their shells are different than a Painted Turtle.

“I see it’s red ears!!!”

We drew a big circle to make our turtle’s shell.

We are so excited to take home out Red-eared Slider.  Be sure to ask your kiddos some fun facts!

Today we read “The Frog in the Pond” and discussed different animals that live in the pond.