This afternoon during small groups, we worked on our math skills with this snowman counting activity. Each snowman had a number on it’s belly and the kids had to put that many buttons onto their snowman. We are getting really good at our one-to-one correspondence counting!
This afternoon Natalie, Ryan, and Abby were doing our animal footprint matching activity from our science center. They took turns matching each animal with their correct footprint. In order to help them figure out which footprint went with each animal, we looked at the words underneath each card to see if they matched.
This afternoon we started practicing our pre-writing skills at our writing center. Natalie and Rohan were concentrating hard on tracing their shapes and letters.
Today we used our new graphing chart during group time. Each child has their own clip with their name and picture on it which is not only good for for name recognition but also for using their fine motor skills! The question for the day was, “What is your favorite color?” The children each had a turn to come up to the board and pinch their clip on their favorite color ribbon. To end the activity, we counted how many children liked each color and put the corresponding number above each ribbon. We will continue to practice graphing in many different ways.
This afternoon Evelyn was excited to play our new snowball math activity. She is concentrating hard on counting the dots on the dice she rolled so she could put that many snowballs on her snowman!
Join us Thursday and Friday of this week (January 7th & 8th) as well as Monday of next week (January 11th) for preschool open house. It is an opportunity for those families with children in the Toddler and Early 3’s programs to visit the preschool throughout the school day. Talk with the teachers and observe the classroom in action. We want the families at Tots to have the first opportunity to continue their children through preschool with us. The open house is designed to allow current Tots families to interact with the live preschool classroom. Rather than an early year evening meet and greet, it is our opinion that observing and following the teachers as they are instructing is critical to gain a working knowledge of what your children have to gain from continuing through our preschool. Our preschool is committed to providing the finest education in an environment that teaches confidence, builds connections and encourages growth. This event has been a great success in the past and we hope you can join us!
Looking for some winter day fun over the holiday vacation? Once the first snow hits, this will be a great snowy day activity.
What is it? An art project involving icicles and frozen blocks of colored ice
What will I need? Food coloring, water, ice trays, molds, muffin tins and other containers
You can’t have as much snow as we do and not have an abundance of icicles. We decided to incorporate some of ours into a sculpture, joining them to ice blocks made by freezing colored water in ice-cube trays, Jell-O molds and yogurt containers. We placed all the materials on an outdoor table, and everyone took turns building totem poles, monsters and free-form sculptures, gluing the blocks of ice with a little dribble of water (it quickly froze).
Helpful Hint: For consistency of hardness, consider making your colored blocks in the freezer rather than outdoors.
Ingredients
What you do:
Mix the dry ingredients. Add spices a small amount at a time until the dough smells and looks like you want it too. Mix water and oil together first and then add them to the dry ingredients and stir. In a pot, cook the mixture for two to three minutes, stirring frequently. The dough will start to pull away from the sides of the pot and stick together. When this happens, take the playdough out of the pan and knead the dough until it becomes soft and smooth. Allow the dough to cool and then store it in an airtight container.
Today all of the children made sparkling lights on their houses. They used glue, glitter, and small circles to make their lights shine bright!
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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