Christmas Trees Day 1
My group this year all have Christmas trees as part of their holiday traditions so that is what I have centered this week’s activities around. We started by reading the book An Early American Christmas...
View ArticleChinese New Year Projects
It seems like forever since I posted details of the lesson work we have been doing. That’s in large part to the fact that the children just haven’t been interested in projects recently. They have been...
View ArticleA Different Perspective
This week was about: a review of circles letter “O” discussion of textures with descriptive language Owl Moon extension activity – owl’s view perspective Winter usually means snow around here. Snow...
View ArticleSave That Bubble Wrap!
Especially at this time of year with gift envelopes and shipped packages – save any bubble wrap you get. There are many uses for it in an ECE program. My favorites are sensory games and printing. I was...
View ArticleThe Farm ~ First Theme for 2013-14 School Year
I am going to start off this school year with the large theme of FARM. This theme offers lots of flexibility in direction which will be of benefit with the group I will have here during the day. We...
View ArticleFarm Unit ~ Second Week
This week’s focused lessons were on letter recognition and shapes. We continued to talk about farm animals and their sounds as part of our daily play and through the books reading at story time. The...
View ArticleSame Yet Different
We have taken the 2 weeks leading up to Thanksgiving to focus on our place in our family and community. We ended on focusing on how are we all the same and yet different. Much of our lessons were done...
View ArticleReindeer Hide
We started a multi-day project for our Reindeer study today. I enjoy combining different areas of our curriculum into lessons. By having multiple exposures and chances to explore through different...
View ArticleA Snowmen Invasion
As planned we began our Snowman themed lessons. Our story time books for the first 2 weeks: These books were read multiple times over the 2 weeks. They all have a snowman that is affected by melting....
View Article“My Maine” Books Completed #bookingusa
We have finished our books about Maine that came about from our involvement with Booking Across the USA Trip 2 (2014). You can catch prior posts about specific pages here and here. Then for my compiled...
View ArticleHug Monster
Wrapping up a week of heart related activities available to play with, I pulled out my dollar store gadget box, paint and pink papers. After each child that wanted to explore made a choice of paper I...
View ArticleMaking “Orange” and Jack-O-lanterns
We’re learning about the primary colors and how you can combine them to get all the colors we want. Fall and Halloween are a great time of year to work on making “Orange” from red and yellow. It’s fun...
View ArticleHalloween Past
As I’m cleaning up my sites I figured it might make it easier if I pulled some old posts together for easy browsing. Here are a group of activities done for Halloween………. Halloween Folded Cat: For this...
View ArticleAnything Autumn (from the Past)
Another gathering of posts. This time all about activities on Autumn topics…. Apple Number Book: Material; 2 sheets 8×11 red construction paper, scraps brown and green 10 sheets white paper – I use...
View ArticleThinking Winter Interests……
We have snow on the ground and it’s finally cold. Christmas is past so it’s time to be thinking about winter interests so I can support where my young group is to further their learning while expanding...
View ArticleBear Sees Colors
We are really working on our colors right now. That means many stories where color is a main theme. Many of these stories will be new to the children here, but today I enjoyed sharing a new one to me:...
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