Our PreSchool Blog

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.

Our Thurdsay AM and PM classes had a chance to be chef’s as well to make pumpkin pie in a bag!  What a fun experience it was for them as you can see!

more cooking today, this time . . . pumpkin pie!

We made Pumpkin Pie in a bag today!  The children helped to measure and pour all of the ingredients into our special plastic bag.  The best part was that after we zipped up the bag, everyone had a turn to mush and mix everything together with their hands!  It was so exciting for them to see what it felt like as they were mixing the cold pumpkin pudding.  To make the crust of the pie, the kids also crushed up graham crackers on the table.

practice with letter recognition and developing fine motor skills

Today we made the first name of each child’s name with pumpkin seeds!  We guided them as they traced their letter with glue and then they placed the pumpkin seeds on their pumpkin.  Walter is making a “W” for Walter!  This is great practice for letter recognition.

Friends helping friends

These kind of moments are so sweet and precious that it is to hard to pass up a picture!  Caroline and Sophia were on their way up the ladder to play when Sophia lost her shoe!  Caroline stopped right there and sat to help her get her shoe back on.  She then hugged her and made sure she was okay=) What nice friends we have here at Creative Tots!

With Penn on the job no fire has a chance

Penn was having too much fun putting out the fire today! With his fire hose at his side, he is ready for any flames that come his way!

experimenting with watercolors

Ezra is concentrating hard at painting the letter “H”!  This week we are focusing on the letter “H” and today the kids were able to use watercolors to paint the letter!  He is also looking closely to see what animals are on his paper that begin with the letter “H”.  Orange paint was the color choice today as we talk about it each day to reinforce the color of the month.

Today the toddlers got to turn their orange painted pumpkins into Jack O’ Lanterns!  We talked about all of the different shapes we can use to make the faces.  We used triangles for eyes to reinforce the shape of the month and let them choose between triangles or circles for the nose.  The last step was to make their pumpkin happy or sad.  For the most part everyone choose happy but there were a few that went for the sad pumpkin!

teaching shape recognition with the familiar pumpkin

bubble art

Today we worked on step two of a special project for our Art Show.  After painting our bubbly ocean water, it was time to add sea creatures!  The kids were able to pick two sea creatures to put into the water.  Johnnie chose a scary shark and something else that can been seen on November 13th!

Today we worked on another special piece for the art show!  The kids had three steps to this project to make it complete!  The first fun part was to take a paint roller and roll paint all over the bubble wrap.  The next step was to use their hands to pat it down all over their paper and the third exciting step was to lift up the bubble wrap to see what they made!  A close up of their masterpiece can be seen at the Art Show on November 13th!

Another sneak peak at one of our artists preparing for the November 13th Art Show