June 5, 2020

Literacy/Language/Fine Motor Skills/Creativity

Children acquire language primarily through listening. Reading aloud lets children regularly hear new words in new contexts, which builds their vocabulary and helps them develop a stronger awareness of the communicative possibilities of language.

Encouraging children to get involved in the story by describing pictures, making predictions, asking questions that require more of a response than yes or not, and follow the child's answer with another question is essential for their cognitive development.

Annabelle created an ocean story after she painted her Octopus in black. Her words have a lot of meaning, and writing her words enables her to understand that her works are significant.

Aria appeared focused as she painted her Octopus arms.

Teagan used bright colors for her Octopus.

Fine Motor/Color/Imagination/Language/Creativity

Young toddlers learn by observing, exploring, and investigating. Open-ended and hands-on art activities are fun and interactive. As Aria engages with the pipe cleaner as a painting tool, it stimulates her creativity, imagination, and fine motor skills.

Sensory/Language/Imagination

Sensory bags are also sometimes called squish bags. Sensory bags allow children to explore, discover, imagine, create, and learn while engaging many of their senses. They are great mess-free sensory play. Teagan tapped, squeezed and pressed as she observed the shaving cream mix with the color blue.

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Creativity/Imagination/Fine Motor

The children did a Home-fun project after listening to the read aloud in Spanish, La Arana Muy Ocupada (The Very Busy Spider) by Eric Carle. They all used different materials and techniques to create their unique spiders.