This month on our light table we have tiny colored lights for our preschoolers to practice their sorting skills. Choosing which bowl the light goes in is great practice for developing math sorting skills. Picking up the tiny lights is a wonderful way for the preschoolers to strengthen their fine motor muscles.
The early 3’s will be learning to identify the letters “B” and “E” this month. They worked on saying the name of the letter and sorting them into labeled baskets.
Happy Thanksgiving!! Enjoy the holiday with your family and eat lots of turkey!
One of our monthly objectives for November is matching. The boys and girls have lots of opportunities throughout the day to show off their matching skills wether it be during group time or exploring at the manipulatives center. Today the children took turns matching woodland animals during small groups. They did a great job sorting by shape, color, and animal.
All month long the preschoolers will be working on sorting. Introduction to simple classifying and sorting builds a foundation for math skills. We had fun separating the beans by color today.
One of the first words children learn to read and write is their name. Children hear their name all throughout the day. Names are personal, meaningful, and recognizable. Today we searched for the first letter in each child’s names. Some of the children held onto the letter throughout the day. They recognized it as “their” letter that stands for “their” name. We reviewed the letters with the boys and girls as well as went over color recognition with them as they dropped the letter in the bucket. Learning letters is something we work on with our Toddlers everyday. It build self confidence within the child and helps give them a sense of identity!
The Toddlers have been reading “Color Farm” by Lois Elhert during group time. Each day the children review the shapes and colors throughout the book. Today we focused on the color orange because it is the color of the month! The boys and girls found different objects around the room and placed them on the matching mat. Look at what they found!
Today the Toddlers worked on the cognitive development skill of matching. Matching is the ability to perceive that two items are identical. It hones in the concept of sameness and differences. During group time we read the book “Animal Babies on the Farm”. The boys and girls did a great job matching the animals based on the sound the animal makes! Next we dug through the sensory tub and tried to find matching mom and baby farm animals. Look around your house and see if your child can find things that match!
One of our objectives in the Toddler room this month is to go over the concept and vocabulary “in and out”. The boys and girls practice this everyday. Whether it be playing in and out of the play house, putting objects in or out of the sensory table, or going in and out of the classroom… the children are putting the words in to motion each day! Our friends had a great time putting the balls “in” and “out” of the bucket.
Friday we read Up, Down and Around by Katherine Ayres . We discovered all kinds of different seeds just in time for Summer! At small groups the boys and girls used their sorting skills and separated their own bag of seeds based on shape and size. Then they glued each seed onto their seed graph and was able to see how many of each seed they had. What a fun way to learn about seeds and sorting!
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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