Our PreSchool Blog

Today Joey and Jessica were exploring with magnets!  They used their magnet wands to see how many magnets they could pick up at one time.  It was so exciting for them to watch as the magnets attached to each other in one line.  This was also a wonderful exercise for counting.  After attaching all of the magnets they possibly could, we took them off and counted them as we put them back in their special trays.  The individualized trays work wonderful for one-to-one correspondence when counting.

Tactile or kinesthetic learners are those who learn through experiencing/doing things.

What is more fun than driving cars through paint to make letters!  Today the early 3’s children had the chance to make the letter of the week “H” with cars!  They took the cars, covered the wheels in paint and drove over the letter H.

During the month of October we talk about fire safety.  Today Jessica was our group time helper and modeled what a fire fighter wears when on duty.  We went through each item of clothing as she put it on and talked about how fire fighters stay protected.  These items are also in our dramatic play area so all the children were excited to get their chance to be a fire fighter!

Introducing our special "letter birds" as the eager Early 3's beginning picking eggs from the letter bird's nest.

Every Monday we will be introducing a letter of the week.  Today during group time our special bird flew in to help introduce the new letter.  Each student got a chance to pick a egg from the bird’s nest and open it to find out our special letter.  This picture is showing everyone opening up their eggs and holding up the special letter “L”.

A tremendous advantage to programs as specific as those that we strive to provide at Creative Tots is the ability to select a unique subgroup of students from our kids that seem to find themselves in the limbo of that birthday range which could go either direction.  Over the years the early 3’s program has grown out of our teachers concern for those students which by birthday criteria may find themselves on the precipice of transitioning to preschool, but not fulfilling the age requirement.

The Early 3's program sees tremendous success

This is not the only time parents will face such a decision, as these very children will soon be on the steps of their Kindergarten classes with the same birthday and the same situation.  It is our theory that many of these children should be advanced, or some encouraged to be further attended to if necessary as early as possible.  Intervention at this age makes the Kindergarten decision a much easier choice and allows kids to have a much more fulfilling time while finding themselves between toddler and preschool.  
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