Our PreSchool Blog

The studio toddlers had a fantastic February.  We focused on the color pink and heart shape in honor of Valentine’s Day.  Pink hearts were repeated during games, finger plays, crafts, sensory bins, songs, stories, and more.  The toddlers practiced fine motor skills making love bug hats, lacing hearts, and  painting bags during our Valentine’s Day party.  We also incorporated purposeful play throughout our study of space.  The toddlers loved dressing up as astronauts, blasting off rockets, an astronaut obstacle course, stamping letters to spell their names on rockets, puzzles, books and scooping in our space sensory bins. The Bengals heading to the Super Bowl was all the rage in Cincinnati so we had a class pep rally learning about Bengal tigers and creating a keepsake craft.  A fun February for all!

The toddlers have enjoyed our space theme this month.  We have colored planets, had hands on learning with our space discovery bins, pretended to be astronauts and preformed an astronaut obstacle course complete with star jump and black hole, and discussed the concept of daytime versus nighttime. We combined our study of the letter R and space theme to create an R is for Rocket also!

We have been talking about rocketships blasting into space and doing many countdowns as a class!  This afternoon we experimented with a balloon, straw, and piece of string during group time.  We asked the question “what do you think will happen if I blew up this balloon attached to the straw and then let it go?” We

This month we are blasting off into space!  The kids are having a wonderful time counting down and shooting off in the rocketships!  They have also been putting on their space packs and walking on the moon with their special moons shoes!