Our PreSchool Blog

Come join us on Friday, October 30th at Creative Tots for our first annual Harvest Festival!  We will celebrate the year with costumes, pumpkin decorating, crafts and food.  We have a traveling petting zoo coming to Tots for the evening.  The kids will have a great time.  Don’t forget to dress up!

Today the kids were practicing their shapes and patterning with a small grou activity.  Abby and Ryan loved matching the foam shapes with their patterning strips.  We talked about the color of the shapes, the name of the shapes, and the different patterns on each strip.  They wanted to do it over and over again!

reading time today

We love to read books in our early 3’s class!  Carson asked his friends to join him so he could read them a story about 5 little pumpkins.  It was so fun watching him read each page and act out all of the pictures.  Joey also took some time to sit and relax in our reading center to read a book.  It is so wonderful to watch them take steps at becoming readers!

This afternoon the early 3’s practiced tracing the letter P on our art table.  They used roller paints to trace over the letter P’s on the table.  Not only is it fun to use the roller paints but it was great writing practice for them!

practicing printing skills with roller paints

In our early 3’s class, we have a writing center where the children are free to sit and make their very own books.  Throughout the year we have been talking about authors of the books we read and how we can all be authors.  It is important for children to start the writing process using pictures to express their thoughts and ideas.  Today Emma told us that she was making a book about “trains”. Andrew was so excited to show us that he wrote the “letter P” in his book.  It is so much fun to watch them “read” their stories to us and to be confident in themselves as they begin to write!

This month we are talking about community helpers.  This week we are focusing on the denstist and mailman.  Today during group time we asked everyone who had been to the dentist before and how important it is to take  care of our teeth!  We also played a game with teeth!  Each tooth had either a shape or letter on it.  The kids had to close their eyes while Ms. Sarah hide the baby tooth behind one of the labeled teeth.  When they opened their eyes, each child had a chance to guess where the tooth was hidden by describing which tooth they thought it was behind.  This was a great activity for practicing letter recognition and our shapes and colors!

shapes and letters at the dentist

The Early 3’s had so much fun today making pumpkin pie!  At snack time we put our graham crackers at the bottom of our cup for the crust, put our pumpkin pie mixture next, and then topped it off with some cool whip!

Cooking with children is a wonderful way to teach them the benefits of measuring, numbers and working as a group.

Today we worked together to make apple crisp!  We sat around the table and talked about how we use measuring cups to help us make different kinds of foods.  For our apple crisp recipe we measured flour, sugar, and baking powder and stirred it all together.  We sprinkled cinnamon and sugar on top of our crisp apples and put it in the oven to bake!  The kids loved the smell of our wonderful creation as we all sat and ate it for snack!

Shape, pattern, and texture are properties important not only in art but in science and math as well. Preschoolers need engaging opportunities to explore these concepts.

Evelyn is very concentrated on exploring the pumpkins and gourds from our science shelf!  She is using her magnifying glass to really study the different bumps on the pumpkins.  She was talking about the different colors and shapes on the pumpkins and even moved positions to get a really good look!

Color sorting

Color recognition

The kids have loved practicing their sorting.  Parker and Ryan have seperated all of their bowls and are putting the color bears in their matching bowls. This is such a fun skill for them to practice at this age!