Winter is over…that can only mean its a great time to wash your cars…no matter how big or little! The Early 3’s had a blast getting to wash our toy cars in a giant bucket of soap. This is a great fine motor exercise because we use our tiny hand muscles to squeeze the soap out of the sponges!
You can’t have a fish theme without going fishing! The Early 3’s used fishing poles with suction cups to pick up card board fish! Who got the catch of the day?
We are working toward mastering our names in early 3’s. We have spent the year learning to recognize them. Lately, we are moving past this skill and learning to write and spell them! Learning to recognize, spell, and write your name are important skills associated with early reading!
The Early 3’s are continuing to work on their fine motor skills. Stringing beads help improve children’s ability to dress themselves, strengthens their pencil grasp, and improves their overall fine motor, visual perceptual, visual motor skills.
The early 3’s have been talking a lot about gardens and the flowers you can find in them. Today, they practiced ordering flowers…by size! After taking a minute to explore the flowers through their senses, they put the flowers in order according to length, shortest to tallest! We talked about how many flowers/plants start out short and grow taller with water and sun.
The Early 3’s worked on their sorting skills with goldfish this week. We used the goldfish to sort and practice patterning. Take advantage of teachable moments in unlikely places (like snack time! )
This afternoon during small group time, the kids worked on patterning and letter matching. In Miss Darcy’s patterning group, they used little pom poms to make the AB patterns on their cards. In the letter matching group, the kids got to take turns picking a piece of clothing and matching it with the same letter clothes pin. They loved hanging up the clothes on the clothes line!
We read Zoo Animals this week in reading group and worked on the sight words here, is and the. All of these sight words were found in our book and we will be adding them to our word wall on Monday. These words are called Dolch Sight Words. Because these words are not able to be learned through the use of pictures and are meaningless on their own, these sight words must be recognized at at glance before a child can read with confidence. Helping your child identify the words we are working in school in the books you read with them at home is a great way to support their learning and help them develop a better sight word foundation. For a list of pre-k/kindergarten sight words and downloadable list you can print and cut out to use as flash cards, click the picture.
Pre-K Reading Group
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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