Lakewood Child Care Center

Although it doesn’t quite feel like it, it is our Spring them week. Monday in art the children created their own sculpture with salt dough, and in math the children engaged in a Spring bingo game. In language the children matched lettered flower petals to a lettered flower. Tuesday in art some of the children painted their salt dough creations while others started to make one. In math the children matched numbered clothespins to numbered butterflies. This experience incorporated some fine motor work to squeeze the clothespin. In language the children worked with a letter puzzle. The children also explored another fine motor activity to drop toothpicks into colander holes. Wednesday in art the children glued together the parts of a flower and in math the children added raindrops to a rain cloud using subitize cards. In language he children engaged in a duck position word activity. With this activity the children were directed to put their duck on the pond, next to the pond, under the pond, jump it over the pond, and all other direction and position words. Today in art the children painted with broccoli! In math the children worked with umbrella 1 to 1 correspondence grids and colored gems. In language the children practiced writing and tracing spring words. The fine motor activity today was picking up pom poms with tweezers and putting them into cups. Tomorrow in art the children will explore symmetry art and in math the children will work with number sense raindrops, matching raindrops by the number of ten frames to match the number raindrop. In language the children will pick a letter card and practice writing it on a chalkboard. In the sensory table this week the children worked with watering cans, plastic flower pots, marbles and ducks. In the block area we added birdhouses and birds to the area.