Centres

In our centres, there is always an underlying reason why we chose the activity that we did. There is a connection to our curriculum. It may be social development. Math skills. Reading skills. Problem solving. Fine motor skills for writing and zipping and buttoning. Creativity. We like to also base our activities around the children's interests which makes learning fun and meaningful to the child.

We gave the children a tree and a supply of ornaments and material. They figured out how to decorate the tree, get the star on top and even make a tree skirt. Then they took it apart and tried a new way.

Counting Cheerios. What number card did you get? That's how many Cheerios you put on your stick. Some children even did many number cards and filled their sticks to the top and counted how many Cheerios they had all together.

Journal writing. The children love to write stories in their journal. They are learning to sound out words and print what sound they hear and some are copying words which is great eye hand coordination. They also have learned to draw a picture clue that matches their words, it is a prereading skill. Pictures help tell us what is happening in the story.

There is always fun when it comes to paint! Qtip painting their names.