Our PreSchool Blog

Thank you to everyone who came out on Friday for our first annual Harvest Festival!  We are so lucky to have such wonderful families here at Tots and we always look forward to the times we get to spend with everyone outside of the classroom.  There were some GREAT costumes!  Thanks everyone!

Feeding the Goats

AARG!

Apple Prints

Dinosaur Fun

Happy Halloween!

Feeding the Bunny

With a cherry on top....

Memories for a Lifetime!

treasure hunting at the sensory table

This week we have added rice and colorful jewels to our sensory table!  The kids have loved feeling the texture of the rice and sorting through it to find the shiny and colorful jewels!  We had quite a crowd at the sensory table today scooping and dumping the rice over and over again!  The rice was used for many different things today.  Some kids were “building houses” while others were “cooking different foods.”  The jewels were also a big hit for finding “treasure” and talking about the different colors.

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Mixing primary colors to produce secondary colors with the toddlers

The toddlers this week have been practicing their color recognition and experimenting with primary and secondary color mixing. It is a wonderful experience for the children to see how primary colors mix to form secondary colors. The objectives of these exercises are color recognition, the ability to demonstrate creative expression and creating fine motor development. This exercise is one of the favorites of the toddlers. They get to manipulate the different colored solutions in the ziplock bags without creating a mess!

Kinesthetic name and letter recognition with the Toddlers

Today we were working on tracing the letters in our name.  We let the children dip their finger in red paint and helped guide them as we traced each letter.  This was to help them become familiar with all of the letters in their names and to get a feeling for how to write each letter.  The color we are focusing on this month is red so we used red paint and red circle dots.

Creative Tots is ready for another year.  We are excited to build on the phenomenal school year we had last year and have quite a number of things in store that the kids are going to love.

First a small order of business for those of you who are new to the Creative Tots Toddler Program Only . . . the first week of school is considered a transitional week for just our toddler students.  What this means is that they will only be in school for 1 ½ hours for the week of September 8-11th instead of the regular full 2 ½ hours.  If your child is enrolled in the am toddler session it will run from 9:00 to 10:30. The pm session on Tuesday and Thursday will run from 12:00-1:30.  Regular hours 9-11:30/12:00-2:30 will begin the following week.

Thank you so much.  We look forward to an amazing year!

Creative Tots

Remember that the first week is transitional week for the toddler program.  What this means is that they will only be in school for 1 ½ hours for the week of September 8-11th instead of the regular full 2 ½ hours.  If your child is enrolled in the am toddler session it will run from 9:00 to 10:30. The pm session on Tuesday and Thursday will run from 12:00-1:30.

Summer fun with our "Water Wednesdays"

Regular hours 9-11:30/12:00-2:30 will begin the following week.  The room is coming together nicely as the teachers have been there morning until night preparing for the arrival of our toddler class.  The summer was full and exciting and allowed for some great activities with the kids at Tots.  This year will be nothing short of fantastic.