Summer Camps at Language Tots International Preschool, Brier Creek

Ages 2-3

Week 1: July 7-11               Octopus’s Garden

Kids love to indulge in fantasy and what could be better than being “down where it’s wetter, under the sea”? With dress up clothes for little mermaids and mermen, we will create fishy tails, scales and fins for our role play adventures. Songs this week include the Beatles classics  “Octopus’s Garden”, “Yellow Submarine” and “I am the Walrus” as well as songs from the Little Mermaid and Nemo.
Crafts include a treasure chest, a make-believe aquarium, a Japanese style Koi windsock, finger painted fish scale collages, fancy tropical fish tails and a stuffed fish to hang from the ceiling. We will practice sequencing skills with relative sizes of fish and whales, and practice classification skills with an introduction to mammals, cold blooded fish and amphibians. Number skills include measuring the size of gigantic blue whales and giant squid on the sidewalk, as well as tiny seahorses and shrimp. Our week ends with an underwater party with “seafood” treats! “

Week 2: July14-18              Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Kids love things that move, be they cars or trains, roller coasters or now-tech garbage lid sleds! This week we explore the world of transportation, as we classify vehicles that travel on land, sea and in the sky.  The vocabulary of vehicles and parts of vehicles are learned through songs and games, with hands on activities and creative movement. We create a long class train with shoeboxes, dance a train through the school, play “red light, green light” have paper airplane races, and sail home made boats on a “pond’. Songs this week include Raffi’s “Riding in an Airplane”, “Tingalaylo”, “She’ll be Coming round the Mountain”,  Wheels on the Bus”, and more childhood favorites.

Week 3: July 21-25             De Colores

Using Raffi’s song, De Colores as our theme this week, we explore a color each day. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will be primary color days, Thursday will be secondary colors and Friday will be a big “red, white and blue” celebration of the colors of our flag. Each day we will explore color in nature, in animals, birds, fruit and flowers. The emotional and symbolic power of color will be expressed through simple color rhymes, poems, metaphors and similes, and association of words and colors. Like the artists of the stone age, we will experiment with grinding and mashing, mixing  and naming our own colors using clay, egg, spices, soap, charcoal, leaves, and berries, all safe and non-toxic.
Come dressed as a color statement on Friday and join us as we celebrate our colorful world.

Week 4: July 28 – Aug 1    Like Me and You

This week’s theme focuses on our sense of self within our family and our greater community. Although we are all different, we are all human beings who laugh, cry, love and feel pain. Learning to understand and embrace differences can lead to a richer life, wherever we live. Through songs, stories, rhymes and activities we hope to stretch our toddler’s understanding and appreciation of self in relation to others. Using Raffi’s ‘Like Me and You” as our theme, we will pretend to visit friends all over the world, in countries that are hot, cold, high up in the mountains, low on the coast, in the jungle and in the desert. Through role play and hands on activities, we will explore what people wear, what they eat, how they build their houses, what they call their moms and dads, how they greet each other and how they say “please and thank you”. Join us on Friday for a celebration of variety in our human world. “Vive la Difference!”

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