Today was letter Cc review day. And fortunately, the rain held off so they were able to play in the leaves!
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Can a two-year-old write? No! But they can scribble, and that’s exactly where it all starts. ✨ Each child has their own fine motor journal to help build the small muscles in their hands that are needed for writing later on. Developing fine motor skills is so important, it helps children learn how to hold a crayon, use scissors, and control their hand movements with purpose. In our journals, we use stickers, crayons, stamps, and cut-and-paste activities to make this practice fun and creative! Every scribble, sticker, and snip is a step toward becoming confident little writers. ❤️ The younger children were given the option to paint pumpkins in the color of their choice. The older kids painted their pumpkins white and decorated them with sparkly jewels! They did a great job gluing the jewels on their pumpkins. For fine motor practice, we worked with stickers and traced spider webs, a great way to build hand strength and coordination while having fun! Hay is dried grass and other plants that have been cut. Hay is mostly used to feed the farm animals, such as horses, cows and goats. Straw comes from the dried stems of grain plants. It is used more for farm animal bedding rather than food. They created their own straw beds for their animals. They traced various lines on the back of the hay paper, cut and assembled their beds! For fine motor they drew hay bales and cut paper to make hay. They completed I-Spy for letter C. Finally to end the day, I have them hay (shredded paper) pigs and cows for them to have open ended play! We did some fun and engaging work in our fine motor journals, cutting, pasting, drawing and numbers! Today we reviewed the letter Ii and made letter crafts — an ice cream cone and an iguana! The children had all sorts of fine motor skill practice today. They used Q-tips to paint their names and the letter Ii, and they also created colorful Ii collages with cut-up pieces of paper. In their fine motor journals, they used stickers to make the letter Ii. To finish the day they explored in the "princess" sensory bin I created. Friday was a beautiful fall day! The new puzzles kept them busy for quite a while. Learning shapes, colors and problem solving skills! On a farm, there are many things that can create tracks, like a horse or a tractor. Tractor tires are unique because they are able to move through mud and dirt without getting stuck. Tractors are vehicles that help do work on the farm. They are driven by one person. They help farmers plow, till and plant their fields. During this Invitation to Create, the children became creative engineers by assembling their own tire treads. Through this process, the children explored how tractor tires move through paint. They used foam strips, placed on toilet paper roll and rolled in the paint to see the tread pattern they created. For fine motor, they cut paper strips and glued into leafs and colored/cut out letter Ii. Grain bins are metal structures with a dome like cap. They are used to store dry, harvested grains like corn and soybeans. Today they created their own grain shaker using a paper cup, lid, foil pan, shaker mix and paint sticks! They painted red and then added additional details with a marker. For small group math we played Tractor Math. They rolled the number cube, identified the number and placed that many animals in the cart. For their names, I explained some grain bins have the name of the farm written on them. They either wrote or traced their names on the Silo template. For fine motor they traced blue squares with blue paint and a q-tip. |
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