Theme: Spring and Nursery Rhymes The children seemed to enjoy listening and learning nursery rhymes. At Turtle Creek we have traditionally spent this month focused on nursery rhymes. Learning nursery rhymes is not only a literary activity, but it involves both speech and music and movement. The four nursery rhymes we will be working on throughout the month are: Ring Around the Roses, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,... View Article
Theme: Spring and Nursery RhymesWe are still waiting for spring to really come around and show us its warmth and colors. I think in a few more weeks the world will brilliantly explode with the colors and sounds of spring. Trees are just beginning to bud and the world is slowly waking up from its winter slumber. We will continue... View Article
Theme: Spring Has Sprung This week we will focus on the arrival of spring. Over the weekend, the outside was decorated to celebrate the coming of this beautiful season. Hopefully, when we’re playing outside this week, we will notice signs of the coming of spring especially the sounds of the birds that are looking hard to build their nests. The... View Article
Theme: St. Patrick’s Day! It seems like this week, everyone is Irish. We have so many wonderful crafts and stories that dovetail with this festive celebration. When we select the craft for our little ones, there are two important skills that we keep in mind: following directions and development of fine motor skills. The crafts are specially designed so the... View Article
Theme: Letters and Numbers The children enjoyed listening to the Dr. Seuss books; we will continue reading his books this week. We will review our letters, numbers, shapes, colors, days of the week and months along with singing the ABC phonics song to help develop letter and number recognition. We will use manipulatives to reinforce counting and will color and... View Article
Theme: This week we will wrap up our shapes theme. The children enjoyed tracing the shape worksheets and gluing foam shapes to the shape of the day. The children have been, and will continue to work on reviewing our letters, numbers, shapes, colors, days of the week and months along with singing the ABC phonics song to help develop letter... View Article
Our Theme: ShapesThis week our theme will be shapes. The children will learn/review and color one shape every day. We will be using flash cards and worksheets to learn our basic shapes. We will create a Triangle Tree and glue small pieces of triangular paper as leaves to reinforce motor skills and, in addition, the students will engage in sort by shape... View Article
Our Theme: Love and KindnessThis week our theme will be about love and kindness. We will talk about who and what makes us happy and how to spread kindness and love to others. Our crafts this week will be a “Bee Kind” and a Valentine’s Day craft. Our creations will be made by gluing, painting, and using crayons to decorate our... View Article
Our Theme: Love and KindnessThis week our theme will be about love. We will talk about who and what makes us happy and how to spread kindness and love to others. This is a wonderful week to incorporate many different Valentine’s Day crafts which strengthen fine motor and listening skills as well as following oral directions. We’ll be using glue,... View Article
Dear Parents,This week will be talking about polar bears and penguins . We have a lot of fun arts and crafts that we will be creating that will strengthen their fine motor skills. We will make penguins using hearts for their nose and feet and learn about where they live and what they like to eat. The polar bear craft... View Article