Our PreSchool Blog

Focused on the letter G, the toddlers got to experience putting a penny into the gum ball machine.  We all guessed what color would come out!  We then created our own gum ball machine craft using colored circle stickers as gum balls.

F is for Fall and H is for Haunted House!  Lots of fine motor skills used to create letter crafts this month!

Whoo Whoo knows about owls and triangles?  Oliver the owl puppet came out to say Whoo Whoo!  Five Little Owls, a triangle owl craft, building triangles, matching triangles, sorting by color, games, and more helped the toddlers learn about owls and triangles!

Our focus of transportation has been fun this month in the toddler room!

R is for Road

Lacing and sorting with all types of transportation manipulatives help toddlers work on their fine motor skills.

We had discussion of all different types of transportation and watched a video of hot air balloons taking flight.  This inspired a hot air balloon craft.  Our centers have included all types of transportation manipulatives including sailboats with shape locking sails.

We had fun with a name building choo choo train.  We discussed letters and colors and worked on name recognition.

We had fun with a paint sensory experience using the truck wheels to make tracks with the paint.

Dobber paints and stickers on transportation sheets help toddlers with one to one correspondence, color recognition, and fine motor skills.

Sorting by color, shape and size are objectives in the toddler room.

Our toddler class took a pretend flight on Creative Tots airlines.  We practiced buckling our seat belts and staying seated during the “flight”.  The flight attendants passed out a special snack to enjoy while looking out the windows at the ground below.

From candy corn art and letter building, to leaf sorting, to spider web letter identification, to pumpkin seed letter matching… Fall is officially in full swing in the Preschool room!

The afternoon Preschool class read the story Corduroy and completed  activities that revolved around the “button” theme in the story! We love to use literature to help create thematic lesson plans!

This week our activities revolved around the zoo…From letters and numbers to crafts and science lessons!

To help us with correct scissor grip, we put smiley face stickers on our thumbs. The goal is to keep our thumbs to the sky, always looking to see that smiley face!

We have been focusing on bugs, spiders, insects and creepy crawlers this month.  The toddlers have sorted insects by color and shape.  We have also read lots of stories, sang songs, and did puppet activities involving bugs.  Our class created insect crowns to practice fine motor skills with stickers.  We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, then reacted the story using magnets, and made a craft practicing patterns.  A sensory bin filled with insects and magnifying glasses have kept our toddlers engaged. We have been buggin’ out this month!

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations start out with a sensory bin of water beads, gold coins, and scoops.

We created leprechaun beards by painting with a fork.

We heard the leprechaun was running around Creative Tots.   The toddler class traveled to the studio to look for him and found gold coins!  We practiced finding and counting treasure.

We continued with our study of green by creating a “green tent” for our color book.

Moving into spring with a sensory bin filled with eggs, butterflies, bunnies, and flowers.  Some children practiced scooping while others sorted by color or type.  The older children began to make patterns (a pre-literacy and math skill).

Matching Eggs…

Matching jelly beans.  Practice with one to one correspondence and color matching.  Also, an exercise in patience.  We had to match them all before we got to eat one as a treat.

Some fine motor skills are practiced when creating washi tape eggs.

Chalk eggs for our new easel.

Gross motor practice….Feed the bunny.

Painting feet for footprint bunnies.