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  • K Prep Enrichment Class: Can you Build a Snowman?

     

     

     

  • Winter Win!

    Our toddler classroom is filled with opportunities to explore, problem solve, create, and learn through play.  Our curriculum theme of the month is winter.  We have used this as a guide to introduce and practice new vocabulary, incorporate our focus of shape (rectangle) and color (white) of the month, practice fine and large motor skills, and build on natural curiosity through using our senses to learn and grow.

     

    Gross Motor Fun inside!  An indoor snowball fight and balancing on a rectangular beam.

    Individual discovery tubs are filled with items to discover by touching, pouring, sorting, and scooping.

    Polar bear shape sort and a rectangular polar bear craft have been a fun way to learn about arctic animals, shapes, and fine motor skills.

    Free choice center opportunities provide toddlers with materials to explore and create igloos and “homes” for arctic animals.

    Using our five senses to discover hot cocoa / cold whipped cream and enhance a Maurice Sendak classic Chicken Soup with Rice!

     

    Lacing provides problem solving skills, patience, and practice.

     

     

     

  • Winter Months in Preschool!

    We have stayed busy in the PM Preschool room this winter! From acting out winter literature, to learning about arctic animals… the kids are having a blast and of course, learning a lot!

    Arctic animal bingo!

    We focused in on the penguin for our science day! The kids learned that penguins have a layer of blubber to keep them warm. To help them understand this concept, we did an experiment to show the kids what blubber feels like for the penguins! We had two ice cold bowls of water. One bowl had a bag of coconut oil in it, to act as the blubber. They put one hand in each bowl and decided that the bowl with pretend blubber kept them warmer!

    We then put a block between our legs so we could waddle like penguins!

    We counted goldfish into the penguins belly’s!

    5 Little Snowmen Readers Theatre!

    Building shapes and open ended creations with toothpicks and marshmallows.

    Letter building with “O” shaped cereal

    Getting ready to count and build our towers

    Getting our bodies involved on a cold winter day, with a gross motor shape hunt!

    Melted snowman art!

    Counting out “snowballs” with tongs for a fine motor addition!

    Hand Strength and cutting practice

  • Building Snowmen

    There wasn’t enough snow outside to build a real snowman out of snow, so we improvised and created our own in the classroom.

  • Counting Buttons

    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! polar bears 014 polar bears 013

    polar bears 011