Brains At Play

  I realize that playtime can be frustrating or tiresome, but leading scientist have discovered the playtime is vital to human survival.  So just in case you needed a reason to invite your kids friends over, other than letting them have fun, just remember we are talking about a basic human need.  Leading researchers have found that the instinct to play resides in a primal part of the brain - like eating or our fight or flight response.

Express Yourself

Painting is such and individual activity and the thing I love about it is:

Preschoolers really love putting their own stamp on things, they love getting to choose their own favorite colors and they love making a mess and having fun!

What skills are we working

on:

Well, don't tell them...

(they work on their small motor skills)

because

painting is just something we do for fun and the most important skill we can build is

Self Confidence!

All Alone!

Rotations are something pretty difficult for little ones to handle.

Why, you may ask?

Because these little ones have to Do It By Themselves.

That's Right.

ALONE!

And while most of them will cry, "I can do it myself!" all day long, they may actually be a little reticent when it comes to working by themselves.

What skills are we helping to build?

-focus

-focus

-FOCUS!

When little ones are asked to truly do something all by themselves, they have to focus on what is right in front of them, and that is asking a lot from a three-year-old. This skill will be critical by the time they are school-age because classrooms are notoriously busy and stimulating which can be Very confusing if it's your first school setting.
Unfortunately this is not something that can be practiced very effectively at home unless you have a large family and your child takes music lessons (which I don't recommend starting until age 7). 
So...send them to school and I'll help them
Get Their Brains in Gear!

Time to Enroll

Now Enrolling

Little Sprouts

Preschool

We Learn:

colors, shapes, letters, letter sounds,

sight words, cooperative play,

rhyming, memorization, writing,

science, music reading,

concentration exercises,

large muscle movement...

and so much more!

4-5 year-old

M/W

9:30-12:00

$75

3-4 year-old

T/TH

10:00-12:00

$60

Fun Fridays

1^st & 3^rd weeks 10:00-12:00

$12 a month for Preschool students

$16 a month for non preschool students

(space is limited)

Call or text Heather@

801-828-8729

Holiday Party

We had WAY too much fun at our Holiday Party!

Eat that snowman!

We threw snowballs at at snowman.

Nice Shot!

had a bow pick-up race.

Decorated Gingerbread Houses.

Some days, you just have to kick your heels up and have a lot of fun!

Share the Cuteness!

Every month we memorize a poem or two.  Last month it was "Santa, Santa".  I just had to share this one.  They are just too adorable!

Puzzle Me This

Puzzles   are an awesome way to enter into reading and math.  They teach pattern recognition and congruency. At Little Sprouts Preschool we start them out small with just a two piece puzzle, but some of our preschoolers have been able to put together a 24 piece puzzle all by theirselves!

  Marcel Danesi Ph.D., the leading researcher in puzzles and what they do for your brain has said, "puzzles are beneficial to brain activity", and "solving puzzles can thus be characterized as a blend of imaginative association and memory." He goes on to explain how doing puzzles makes it easier for children to learn how to read, remember what certain words look like, and decode misspelled words. 

So don't just sit there...

Get Your Puzzle On!