Welcome back! It’s Monday again and the start of another interesting spring weather week. We hope you are safe after the storms that are expected. Below you will find a few invitations for toddlers for today, or any day.
Sensory Invitation: Trucks, sand/dirt, and rocks
Construction vehicles always seem to fascinate the toddlers at Lakewood. Seeing dump trucks driving by the school is a cause for celebration and questions. Today we suggest getting out any trucks you may have and pairing them with some sand or dirt and a few rocks for them to move around.
Intent: To build fine motor skills, engage children in sensory explorations, invite them into pretend play.
Art Invitation: Colored pencils and paper
For toddlers, learning to hold a mark making tool and discovering how to make marks on paper is undertaken with great interest. As you may see with finger painting, children approach mark making in different ways. Some make small, careful dots or lines, other cover the whole paper with zigzags and circles. These early explorations are the first steps into many different languages: the language of writing, the language of art, the language of design. Depending on your child’s approach to this work, you may want to provide them with large or small pieces of paper.
Intent: To engage toddlers in investigating how colored pencils work and how they can be used.
Outdoor Invitation: What changes did the rain bring?
Intent: At LACS we believe in the power of nature in children’s lives. We also love the Swedish saying, “there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.” Tornadoes and hurricanes are surely an exception! Later today looks like it will be a wonderful opportunity to see what the rain changed about the world. Are there puddles? Has the pollen been rinsed away?
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