Today Miss Joanie took the children on a “Bear Hunt” where they went over a bridge and through the woods to get to the bear cave. They made a rhythm on their legs to the beat of their story.
Today Miss Joanie took the children on a “Bear Hunt” where they went over a bridge and through the woods to get to the bear cave. They made a rhythm on their legs to the beat of their story.
This month we are exploring the forest and talking about where bears hibernate. The kids were having fun building tall trees in the forest and letting the forest animals create their homes in the cold winter snow!
Join us Thursday and Friday of this week (January 7th & 8th) as well as Monday of next week (January 11th) for preschool open house. It is an opportunity for those families with children in the Toddler and Early 3’s programs to visit the preschool throughout the school day. Talk with the teachers and observe the classroom in action. We want the families at Tots to have the first opportunity to continue their children through preschool with us. The open house is designed to allow current Tots families to interact with the live preschool classroom. Rather than an early year evening meet and greet, it is our opinion that observing and following the teachers as they are instructing is critical to gain a working knowledge of what your children have to gain from continuing through our preschool. Our preschool is committed to providing the finest education in an environment that teaches confidence, builds connections and encourages growth. This event has been a great success in the past and we hope you can join us!
Looking for some winter day fun over the holiday vacation? Once the first snow hits, this will be a great snowy day activity.
What is it? An art project involving icicles and frozen blocks of colored ice
What will I need? Food coloring, water, ice trays, molds, muffin tins and other containers
You can’t have as much snow as we do and not have an abundance of icicles. We decided to incorporate some of ours into a sculpture, joining them to ice blocks made by freezing colored water in ice-cube trays, Jell-O molds and yogurt containers. We placed all the materials on an outdoor table, and everyone took turns building totem poles, monsters and free-form sculptures, gluing the blocks of ice with a little dribble of water (it quickly froze).
Helpful Hint: For consistency of hardness, consider making your colored blocks in the freezer rather than outdoors.
Ingredients
What you do:
Mix the dry ingredients. Add spices a small amount at a time until the dough smells and looks like you want it too. Mix water and oil together first and then add them to the dry ingredients and stir. In a pot, cook the mixture for two to three minutes, stirring frequently. The dough will start to pull away from the sides of the pot and stick together. When this happens, take the playdough out of the pan and knead the dough until it becomes soft and smooth. Allow the dough to cool and then store it in an airtight container.
Our day was filled with messy faces, dancing and singing, and of course making special reindeer food!=)
This week in the sensory table the kids are wrapping up all of their presents and giving gifts to each other. It was so fun to watch as they tried so hard to “wrap” their boxes! The best part was watching them give their wrapped presents to their friends!
This morning the kids used marbles and red paint to make their very own Candy Canes! Our letter this week is the letter C which made Candy Canes the perfect craft for this time of year!
Connor loved sorting the buttons onto the different color jars. As he sorted the buttons, we talked about the different colors and shapes of each one.
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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