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A fun Sparkly Winter 2 Ingredient Play Dough, perfect for sensory play or to a create an invitation to play tray with.
This mitten math activity is a simple way for young children to practice counting, number recognition and subitizing this winter! A fun roll and color game!
Your early learners are going to LOVE using this snowman number match in your math center during your winter theme! Hands-on learning fun awaits.
Exciting play for curious young minds...
Sometimes easy crafts are the best with young kids. This textured winter collage craft is something that even young toddlers can make independently and do their own thing with. This simple winter craft activity is
Howdy! I am Mr. Greg from The Kindergarten Smorgasboard. My real name is Greg Smedley-Warren. I have been teaching for 11 years. I spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and am now in my 9th year in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is my passion and my calling but honestly, that wasn’t how it started. When I was moved to Kindergarten (not voluntarily!) I called my mommy and cried. But on the first day, I fell in love and knew that Kindergarten is where I belonged. I have remained in Kindergarten ever since. I plan to never leave the classroom as the kids are what drive me to continue my growth as a teacher and person.
Help kids practice making shapes with these free printable shape playdough mats...
Welcome to the third in our blog series introducing our Story Explorer World Book Day 2020 selection! So far we’ve talked about ideas for The Rainbow Fish and The Tiny Seed. This week it’s the turn of another renowned children’s author Julia Donaldson and her much loved book Stick Man!
You won't believe this gorgeous glittery icicle craft is made from up-cycled milk jugs! A great recycled Winter craft for kids.
Preschoolers love balloons. They love paint too. So why not combine the two into this amazingly simple balloon print art project?
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Petits veinards, il fait froid chez vous ! Vous avez un vrai hiver, un vrai de vrai avec des gelées, de la neige et du verglas.Bon d'accord, on grelotte un peu, mais à l'autre bout du monde, il y en a qui nous envient de pouvoir faire des bonhommes...
This next science experiment is great for kids of all ages!
Luv Bug is 34 months old This ended up being an off week for Tot School. Daddy was home at the beginning of the week, so we just enjoyed family time together. Toward the end of the week, Luv Bug pulled a muscle in her neck while sleeping. Poor baby woke up crying and holding her neck. I called her doctor and got her an appointment, though we had to wait over an hour and a half in the waiting room. She was in so much pain, she just layed on my lap and fell asleep. Unfortunately, that nap made her neck stiffen more, so she was screaming when the doctor tried to check her. The good news was that it was nothing serious, just a tight, pulled muscle. It was terrifying though, seeing my baby in such pain. She's pretty active too, so seeing her just lay in bed for 36 hours before trying to get up was scary. She's doing much better and is able to move well. She's still guarding her neck and favoring it on the right. Is there anything more heartbreaking than seeing your baby hurt, asking you to make it better, and NOT being able to? :( I had prepared several trays but she did not do them all. The ones we didn't get around to, I'll save for next week. I bought this game at a local discount store. The little things at the bottom left are catapults (sp?). You try to launch the monkeys onto the tree. Lots of fun. Luv Bug only needed a little help loading the monkeys. She was pretty good at aiming and figuring out how much pressure she needed to launch it just right. Luv Bug is very compassionate. This was so sweet. I launched a monkey a bit too high and he landed on the floor. Luv Bug ran over, picked him up and put all the other monkeys around him to make sure he was ok:) I bought these unit cubes at the dollar tree a few months ago, but this is the first time I put them out. I didn't give Luv Bug any direction, I wanted to see how she chose to play with these. She thought up so many ways to use them and played with these several times this week. She stacked them, and finished patterns I had made while she was playing with toys. (this was the only time I 'intitiated' anything with these. I just made patterns, she glanced over to see what I was doing and came over and finished on her own.) This was taken about an hour before the first time she got up since she hurt herself. She was playing with the blocks and asked for her cars. In this picture, Holly Shiftwell was trapped and needed the other cars to rescue her. The rescue cars got trapped too, so Luv Bug rescued them herself. Her magnetic pom poms. These are so much fun. I saw the idea first in this post over at 1+1+1=1. I added this 1-10 sticker sheet which I found over at Confessions of a Homeschooler. Carissa over at 1+1+1=1 put together this awesome Tot Time Notebook. Luv Bug loves this, but where it is kept, there are so many arts and crafts materials, that it gets overlooked. I put it on a tray and she went through the whole thing. Right now, she likes to trace and color each page as fast as she can so that she can wipe it off with a baby wipe. She did this a lot! She's been asking to glue things lately, so I gathered some items (2 of each in different sizes) so she could make a BIG/little collage. She did really well. After she finished gluing everything on, she went back and put a drop of glue on each item. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are a few other winter activities we were able to get to. This handprint polar bear we did 2 weeks ago and I realized that I forgot to take a picture of it. I found the idea on pinterest and I thought it was too cute. Another craft I forgot to take pictures of. This was done last week. I had made these with the preschool class I used to have. Mine is the boring one on the bottom. I love how cute Luv Bug's turned out. We glued magnetic strips to the bottoms and they are now hanging on our fridge. She was playing with her Arctic Tube from her winter sensory bin. We put the pipe cleaner into the igloo and she had her animals follow the 'path' home. Snowflake matching from Confession of a Homeschooler's letter s pre-k unit. I set out 3 winter mini books. Luv Bug ran to get her crayons so she could color them. The first one is called, What Can We Do In The Snow, found here at Hubbard's Cupboard. This next one is called Snowflakes. I found it here years ago, but am having trouble finding it now. This is called Fun in the Snow, I found free at TPT. This patterning activity I found over at Musings of Me. Unfortunatly, it is no longer available. I downloaded this igloo alphabet matching file folder game here. I didn't think when I assembled this that she would need the igloos side by side, so I had to cut the file folder apart. We played this Winter Bingo (from TPT) game again, big hit with Luv Bug. We watched The Snowy Day from Scholastic. We had planned a playdate for the end of the week (we cancelled when Luv Bug hurt herself), so one night after Daddy came home, I went upstairs to vacuum and put some things in the attic. I set out these snowmen alphabet cards from this unit I purchased at TPT. I set out the capital ones in a row (we somehow lost E before we even had a chance to play. Then I hid the lowercase cards around the room. While Daddy watched her, Luv Bug ran around to find the hidden lowercase cards and match them to the capital ones. I asked him to take pictures for me. (I absolutely love this pic) She called up to me when she'd finished. This is what I saw when I came downstairs. Excuse the mess. I was getting ready to vacuum downstairs next, so everything was put on furniture. -------------------------------------------------------------------- A few random things we did this week. (Not neccesarily taken during tot school time) She loves playing with her magnetic doll. (Thanks Aunt S. and Uncle J.) This was one of her infant toys. I forgot about it until I was cleaning. She still loves it, so we may keep it out awhile. I've been seeing these water beads on a lot of blogs, so I finally ordered some. They are awesome. Luv Bug has been asking every day for them. (Little ones need careful supervision while playing with these. If swallowed, they can cause intestinal blockage). I love how different they look in different containers. Just a cute outdoor shot, looking at a worm. All in all a fun week, minus Luv Bug's injury, of course. Looking Forward to Daddy having another long weekend! -------------------------------------------------------- Some of the books we enjoyed this week:
I picked up these cute little foam aliens in the child’s craft section at the Hobby Lobby. I thought they’d make such a cute math center activity. I printed the pdf on a full size Avery label and cut out each math fact oval and placed it on the alien. There are several different math ... Read More about Alien Addition
Antarctica learning activities and free printables for kids.
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Four free printables for What The Ladybird Heard wanted posters so you can draw in your own Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh and use for literacy activities if you like!
I am somewhat obsessed with the smooth, shiny, ice-like texture from corn syrup paint. A few weeks ago we created a Frozen-inspired name painting.
