Animal Paint Tracks

This was a fun messy paint activity for the toddlers.  They enjoyed dipping plastic animals in paint and watching what colorful tracks they leave behind as they jumped them across the paper.

Materials:
Large sheet of paper
Paint
Tape
Variety of plastic animals

Gross Motor Activities: Hula Hoop Outside Play

The Hula Hoop is a classic toy. It has so many different uses.  We used them in many different ways, such as,  hopping, walking, and stepping. 

Reading is a Family Affair

 

Thank you to all the parents who came to read to the children.  They really enjoyed story time and its very exciting to the children when a parent comes to visit them during the day.

Dr.Seuss and Eric Carle Theme

The children enjoyed the story "Fox in Socks" by Dr. Seuss.  The explored Blue Goo which contains cornstarch, water, and blue food coloring.  They enjoyed the squishy goo which harden in your hands when you squeeze it and when you open your hands the goo feels like a liquid. 

The toddlers enjoyed the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle.  They enjoyed the sponge stamping crafts made out of circles.  They loved painting with sponges and seeing the circle prints on paper.

The toddlers enjoyed the story "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" by Bill Martin Jr/ Eric Carle. We made a torn paper art craft. We strengthen or fine motor skills by tearing construction paper and putting them on contact paper.  We incorporated the same colors as the animals in the book for color recognition.  We also played a simple matching game using the animals in the book.

Friendship Theme: Giving and Receiving Hugs

For our Freindship Theme, our toddlers praticed giving hugs, sharing toys and they praticed gentle touches.

Graphing: In My Family, I Am....

Last Week the children and I discussed "All About Family". We spend some time talking about moms, dads, brothers and sisters.  We made a family graph to identify who is the Oldest, Middle, Youngest, or Only Child. We observed that their were more children that are the "Only" Child in the toddler class.

*The graph is located outside the Toddler Classroom.*