The Cincinnati Zoo came to our classroom today and brought two amazing animals to share with us. The K prep students who attended all day were able to see two DIFFERENT animals in the morning with the Preschool Class…it was such a fun experience! This afternoon we met Ghana the Hedgehog from Africa and a red footed tortoise from South America.
We have been working hard this month on our addition math study unit…we have used many different manipulatives such as marbles and unifix cubes to learned the fundamentals of addition. According to learning theory based on psychologist Jean Piaget’s research, children are active learners who master math concepts by progressing through three levels of knowledge–concrete, pictorial, and abstract. When children use manipulatives it allows them to explore addition at the concrete level. When students manipulate objects to solve addition problems, they are taking the first steps toward building understanding and internalizing math processes and procedures. They will then use the base knowledge to develop more sophisticated problem-solving strategies in the future.
After an “extended” winter vacation, we were all ready to be back in school this week! We hit the ground running with a new emergent reader focusing on the new sight words, go and on. We also began sounding out simple two letter words.
Our Gingerbread man got loose in our school today! He left clues to help us find him and the special treats he left for us to enjoy.
WHERE DID HE GO? We read each clue to find where he was hiding!
WE FOUND HIM RESTING ON THE LIBRARY COUCH!
We finished up our reading groups today as we read, I Can Move, for the final time and then had the opportunity to work our small motor muscles as we colored the pages of our emergent readers. The students have worked very hard this week mastering their new sight word: can. They have done such an amazing job! As we learned the new sight word, we reviewed its letters and sounds Cc~Aa~Nn.
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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