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

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

 

Infants

 Sample activities include:

• Library & Language: Listening to songs and nursery rhymes; listening to picture books read aloud, such as The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Shoo Fly 
• Motor: Crawling and scooting; standing with assistance; walking with support; practicing eye-hand coordination
• Cognitive: Responding to own reflections in a mirror; imitating the actions of others
• Sensory: Exploring the environment using one or more of the senses

 

Toddlers

For Toddlers, the theme is “Things That Go.”  Sample activities include:

• Library & Language: Identifying familiar items and pictures; demonstrating developmentally appropriate vocabulary; answering simple questions
• Creative Arts: Creating with colored chalk and spray bottles filled with water; making drawings with some details
• Sensory: Exploring sand and water using toy cars and trucks, shovels, and buckets
• Dramatic Play: Pretending to ride a bus using dress-up clothes and props, role-playing, and interacting with other children

 

Discovery Preschool

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

• Library & Language Arts: Exploring food-related books such as Feast for 10 and Growing Colors; telling versions of The Three Bears using flannel pieces and finger puppets
• Creative Arts: Printing with kitchen utensils such as whisks and potato mashers; making salads from green tissue paper
• Science & Sensory: Exploring textures and smells of various kitchen items, spices, and oils
• Dramatic Play: Pretending to be in a grocery store using grocery-store props and role-playing different people in a grocery store  
• Math & Manipulatives: Sorting colored picture cards on color-sorting trays; counting math cards on a counting mat

 

Preschool

For Preschool, the theme is “Healthy Bodies.”  Sample activities include:

• Library and Language Arts: Pretending to write grocery lists and recipes on index cards; listening to books on cassette such as I’m Growing! and movement songs such as “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”
• Creative Arts: Creating sponge paintings and musical shakers
• Science & Sensory: Exploring the properties of water using eyedroppers and turkey basters; taking temperatures using digital and strip thermometers 
• Dramatic Play: Role-playing in a doctor’s office
• Math & Manipulatives: Building hospitals from blocks and props such as toy rescue vehicles; sorting different sizes of clothing such as baby, preschooler, and adult 

 

Prekindergarten

For Prekindergarten, the theme is “My Imagination.”  Sample activities include:

• Library & Literacy: Experimenting with stencils, letter stamps, and hole punches; learning about capital letter T and creating letter-T collages
• Creative Arts: Making puppets from felt, yarn, buttons, and sequins;  creating chalk paintings at the easel
• Science & Sensory: Exploring sand and water using sand toys; learning about and growing crystals
• Dramatic Play: Using a variety of props to role-play scenarios from Where the Wild Things Are, such as sailing on a boat and fishing
• Math & Manipulatives: Experimenting with pattern strips and cards; building castles in the block center