Picnic basket

 Today we had a pretend picnic tea party with our friends. This was so much fun for the children and us teachers! Everyone enjoyed pretending to pour tea out of the tea pot. Later in the day we built with blocks. We also sang "Circle of Friends" and  read The Rainbow Fish. This is a great book about sharing and making friends. We had a fantastic day!

Tea Please

More Tea

and more tea

Building with blocks



Beautiful Marble Paintings

Today was another great day for our friends in the toddler room! We put marbles into a container with paint put the lid on and; then, we shook it and  made the marbles roll around. This was so exciting for us! The kids loved shaking the container and listening to the marbles roll back and forth.  The final results from doing this was, “beautiful”. We also blew bubbles and chased them around the play ground.  As you can tell from the pictures below…it was a very fun filled day.







 Marble Panting

Blowing Bubbles

This week is Friendship week. We started off the day by reading a book called My Friends by Debbie Bailey. Friends play together, help each other, and make each other laugh. There is so much to do with your friends!  We made friendship bracelets by gluing paper flowers and colorful paper to  paper towel tubes. This was such a fun activity. We also sang and made music to the tune, "The More We Get Together"  We are very happy to have so many great friends in our class!

Friendship Bracelets

Making Music with Friends

Best Buds

We looked in the mirror to discover how we are the same and how we are different. These two girls discovered that their hair is the same color!  Our class is now doing family style meals and dishing out our own food. This helps with development of motor and social skills. We practiced using tongs and spoons to dish out wooden blocks from a bowl into a plate. We also counted blocks as we dished them out.  Then, we shared and discussed what we did and what we learned and our friend’s successes!

Our hair is the same!

Practicing with Spoons and Tongs

Looking at what we did!



During Circle time we read, Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault. This book helped the children identify their body parts and functions. As an example, "Here are my teeth for chewing and brushing." Later, we finger painted pictures. The children said the pictures were, "for mommy and daddy"


Circle Time Reading Here Are My Hands

Finger Painting

Fun in the Sensory Table

Rolling and cutting our play dough



Playing dress up!

 

Rubber band snapping painting

Today was a very eventful day! Our toddlers enjoyed rolling out  yellow play dough and cutting it with play dough scissors. This was a lot of fun and helped build our fine motor skills. We played dress up. Then we did art with rubber bands; first we painted the rubber bands, then we snapped them on our paper trays. This made a really neat art project and helped with fine motor as well. 

Today we read Eyes, Nose, Fingers and Toes and sang "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes." We painted with our feet and looked at all of our different footprints. We measured ourselves with blocks to see how tall we are, but as you can see from our picture our activity turned into knocking down the towers and rolling on the blocks. We also had our first Nutrition Education activity with Miss Stacy. She came in with the "my plate" poster and talked to us about food groups.

Footprint painting!

Block measuring!

Calling Mommy!