Below is a sampling of activities that your child may experience this month.

• Infants
• Toddlers
• Discovery-Preschool
• Preschool
• Prekindergarten

Sample activities include:

• Library & Language: Reading the featured Books: Animal Babies Around the House and Animal Babies in Towns and Cities by Kingfisher Publications; Singing songs; Listening to weather- and color-related vocabulary
• Motor: Scribbling with chalk; Clapping hands
• Sensory: Exploring potting soil with hands and gardening tools
• Cognitive: Exploring toys of different sizes; Using fingerpaint

For Toddlers, the theme is “The Earth.”  Sample activities include:

• Library & Language: Discussing photos and books featuring insects and spiders, seasons, and Earth-related images; Featured Book: When Will it be Spring? By Catherine Walters
• Creative Arts: Creating art with items found in nature
• Sensory: Exploring potting soil with hands, shovels, rakes; Using gardening tools
• Dramatic Play: Pretending to be construction workers, using construction-related props and blocks

For Discovery Preschool, the theme is “The Earth.” Sample activities include:

• Library & Language Arts : Exploring puppetry; Featured Books: I Love Our Earth by Bill Martin Jr., and Michael Sampson and Spring by Gerda Muller
• Creative Arts: Painting rocks with tempera paint; Moving paint-covered rocks inside boxes lined with paper to create art
• Science & Sensory: Exploring wet and dry soil
• Dramatic Play: Role playing buying, selling, and working in a flower shop
• Math & Manipulatives: Matching containers with lids; Estimating with counters

For Preschool, the theme is “In the Spring.”  Sample activities include:

• Library and Language Arts: Writing and drawing with chalk; Exploring photo cards and books about spring; Featured Book: Mud by Mary Lyn Ray
• Creative Arts: Painting at an easel with brown, green, and white paint
• Science & Sensory: Exploring potting soil
• Dramatic Play: Pretending and role-playing in a home  
• Math & Manipulatives: Using balance scales to weigh manipulatives

For Prekindergarten, the theme is “Insects and Spiders.”  Sample activities include:

• Library & Literacy: Exploring letter puzzles; Featured Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Creative Arts: Creating insect and spider masks and headbands
• Science & Sensory: Exploring materials to discover which absorb water and which dissolve in water; Exploring sand and plastic insects
• Dramatic Play: Pretending and role-playing at a party
• Math & Manipulatives: Practicing one-to-one correspondence and representing quantities; Building bug habitats with blocks and other props