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In addition to Brightwheel, Instagram provides our families with a daily glimpse into the happenings at Tot Spot Academy.

⛵️🚂 Welcome to our transportation unit! 🚛 🚜

We set up some independent play trays focusing on fine motor skills, identifying numbers and sorting by size. 

We are also focusing on classifications of transportation by sorting by air, land and water. 

Our dramatic play consists of our very own airport with a check in desk and a small mechanics shop to fix any airplane issues! ✈️ 

#trains #cars #trucks #airplane #boat #sorting #sortbysize #measuring #transportation #finemotor #building #dramaticplay #literacy #earlylearningideas #earlylearningfun #earlyliteracymatters #childhooddevelopment #developmentskills #independentplay
One of our favourite independent play stations is One of our favourite independent play stations is the blocks station. Here our tots use their problem solving skills, imagination, creative thinking skills and problem solving skills, all while engaging in free play! 

#creativethinking #problemsolving #criticalthinking #building #woodentoys #woodenblocks #blocks #freeplay #engagement
Our preschoolers started their transportation unit Our preschoolers started their transportation unit!

We are learning about different types of transportation and what they need to be successful.

We determined bridges help vehicles and trains get to where they need to go and there are so many different types!

We set up a loose parts bridge building activity. Bridges are amazing feats of engineering and a great logic challenge for our children designers.

#earlylearning #engineering #enginerebuild #challenge #earlyliteracy #finemotor #thinkoutsidethebox #earlychildhoodeducation #earlychildhoodeducator #preschool #building #skills #childdevelopment #activity #childleadplay #scaffoldplay #transportation #looseparts #loosepartsplay
Loose parts trays provide countless hours of open Loose parts trays provide countless hours of open ended tinkering. We use them for exploring, sorting, building and creating without a predetermined outcome or expectation. 

#loosepartsplay #looseparts #loosepartstoday #loosepartsactivity #looseparts #exploration #handson #finemotorskillspractice #reggioinspired #reggioinspiredteachers #montesorrikids #Montessori #montessoriinspired #finemotorskills #finemotoractivity
Magical snowflakes ❄️ Using watercolours, ou Magical snowflakes ❄️ 

Using watercolours, our toddlers loved discovering magical snowflakes. This paint resistant activity was easy to prepare but was lots of fun!

#paint #waterpainting #watercolor #watercolorpainting #snow #snowflakes #toddler #toddleractivities #toddlersofinstagram
🎵 If you’d like to take a trip, climb aboard 🎵 If you’d like to take a trip, climb aboard our rocket ship! 🎵 

Another set up for space exploration. Our younger Preschoolers enjoyed participating in hands on space related tasks! We learned about the planets, studied constellations on our light table and soared high into the sky with our cardboard rocket ship! 

#stars #rocketship #space #constellations #handsonlearning #lighttableplay #lighttable #preschoolactivities #preschool #dramaticplay #dramatic #play #playtolearnpreschool #stalbertfamily
〰️ The Mitten Rhyming Activity Our preschool 〰️ The Mitten Rhyming Activity
 
Our preschool classroom explored different rhyming words and then played a rhyming matching game inspired by the book 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷. 

💥 Check out @allienoflashcards for her free download! 

Repetition of rhymes and stories is good for the brain, teaching how language works and building memory capabilities.
Exploring the inside and outside world is importan Exploring the inside and outside world is important. It fosters children’s emotional, social and physical development.

We learn by exploring, observing and figuring out the way things work by experimenting. 

We set up an exploration centre under our loft for independent learning. 

#youngexplorer #magnets #science #minerals #rocks #looseparts #finemotor #experiments #preschool #preschoolplay #emotionalintelligence #emotionaldevelopment #developmentalskills #learnthroughplay #independentlearner #childhood #earlylearning #scienceworld
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 — by 𝑱𝒂𝒏 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕 

Our preschool B classroom is back and ready for a week of The Mitten!

We are exploring story sequencing and ordering the animals as they appear in the story! 

We are also learning about story maps! 

Reading stories helps build listening skills, the ability to focus, teaches about communication, introduces concepts as well as develops early literacy skills. 

#themitten #janbrett #storysequencing #earlylearningideas #earlyliteracy #earlyliteracy #developmental #brainfood #emotionalintelligence #preschool #animals #storystones #activitytray #independentlearning
Our preschool class enjoyed reading 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 —  𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲: 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐕𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐒𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆 so much that we decided to make our own polar express!
We also made a forest where the lean wolves roamed! 

#polarexpress #earlyliteracy #learningthroughplay #train #creative #childhoodmemories #playtolearn #freeplay
Buddy the Elf left our preschool class a food bank Buddy the Elf left our preschool class a food bank donation task!

We collected items for the week from our amazing families and then our preschool friends sorted, stacked and counted items as we got them ready!

We had so many different versions from the kids about what a food bank was.

“It’s a thing that has food for people that don’t have enough money or food to buy from their jobs. The food bank helps them to not be hungry!” — Kade, age 4

We had a special helper elf (Jenn, who is finishing up her final month of maternity leave) come and pick up our contribution and drop it off for us! 

#buddytheelf #elfontheshelf #foodbank #preschool #learning #earlylearning #donate #edmonton #stalbert
Christmas is in the air! #trays #preschoolactivi Christmas is in the air! 

#trays #preschoolactivities #preschoollife #preschoolrocks📚 #preschoolfinemotorskills #prekteachersofinstagram #toddlers #gingerbread #snow #Christmas #montessori #play #explore
Our Preschool A classroom continued to explore the Our Preschool A classroom continued to explore their new trays today! 

#color #colormatching #pattern #patterns #pincergrasp #finemotorskillspractice #finemotorskills #finemotoractivity #preschoolactivities #preschoolfinemotorskills
We love working with trays. The Preschool A class We love working with trays. The Preschool A class has been practicing their pincer grasp while sorting Christmas beads! 

#montessori #montessoritrays #pincer #pincergrasp #pincergrip #finemotorskills #finemotorskillspractice #finemotoractivity #christmas #beads #preschoolartactivity
Open ended Christmas art! We set up a variety of Open ended Christmas art!

We set up a variety of different materials and our friends created beautiful Christmas art!

Free art allows children to make independent choices, express their creativity and support their independence! 

#christmasart #openended #freeart #creative #creativity #expression #cognitive #language #skills #socialskills #childdevelopment #developmentalplay #artist #kidsartmagic #preschool
Christmas Playdough 🎄 Today our preschoolers p Christmas Playdough 🎄

Today our preschoolers practiced fine motor skills with a playdough activity.

With covid our sensory fun has been limited but our awesome chef made us glittery playdough individually packed for each of our preschool friends!

We set up bells, buttons, rollers, Christmas cookie cutters, rolling pins and utensils for an open invitation to get creative! 

Playdough is beneficial in so many ways! It promotes fine motor skills, develops hand eye coordination, improves pre-writing skills and increases curiosity and knowledge.

#sensory #playdoh #playdough #openinvitation #invitationtoplay #playtolearnpreschool #learningthroughplay #creative #creativekids #creativity #artist #artistsoninstagram #finemotor #skills #development #childhooddevelopment
Paint, paint and more paint. Our toddlers love to Paint, paint and more paint. Our toddlers love to paint! Today they explored “magic paint”. They were totally enthralled; don’t tell them it was just water with sparkles!

#painting #magic #magicpaint #christmascolors #redandgreen
Some of our new toys are quickly becoming our favo Some of our new toys are quickly becoming our favourite toys! These reflective spheres have been on our wish list for a while and we are excited to finally have two sets. The babies love rolling and pushing the spheres around while checking out their cute reflection! 

Check them out @educationstationyeg! 

#afewofourfavoritethings #toys #gifts #mirror #reflection #spheres #balls #baby #babies #handson #handsonlearning #newtoy #yeg #stalbert
#kindness #kindness
We are getting very excited for our new classrooms We are getting very excited for our new classrooms to open up! 

Stay tuned for more photos! 

#yeg #stalbert #stalbertfamily #stalbertlife #stalbertliving #stalbertsmallbusiness #montessori #loosepartsplay #looseparts #play #daycare #preschool #fun #renovation
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