Rotations

Rotations is a time where each child is encouraged to work independently.  Independent work can be a difficult thing to ask a preschooler to do, it requires focus and creative thinking.  Here are some of the things these preschoolers have learned to do.

Counting:  This may seems simple, but the kids can practice number order and tracking by counting stickers and putting them on the correct standard form number.

Lower case letters:  This is another skill kids need to learn in order to read.  Knowing your letters is the beginning and crucial skill needed to decode words and learn sounds that correlate with them. This rotation has the added bonus of helping kids with their fine motor skills.

Writing you name:  Another skill every kid needs to know before they go to school.  Every preschooler practices this every day.  Making sure to get the correct letters capitalized and also practicing the direction we write (and read).

Sorting and letter recognition:  Sorting is a skill that helps to organize the brain.  It helps children see that there are orders, similarities and differences between things.  It may not look like it, but it helps a child begin to decode reading.
Play dough letters teaches kids to recognize not only the capital letter, but also the lowercase letters that can be tricky for some children to correlate, especially when they look so differently like Rr or Qq.

The cake stack:  This is just fun...or is it?  Each cake has a number on it, and while this rotation is excellent at developing engineering skills; kids also need to be able to put these cakes back with their original numbers and colors.





I hope you enjoyed a little look into what we do every day.  These kids have come a long way at being able to do these things on their own.  Way to go kids!