Farm Science Explorations for Preschool These science activities are perfect to supplement a farm unit! These activities included themed vocabulary words, STEM activities, and science explorations! Farm Science for Preschool Here is a look inside this pack! Farm Animal Shadows- Explore shadows by drawing farm animal shadows! How do they change throughout the day? Farm Enclosure- Can you build a farm enclosure to keep the farm animals safe? What materials should you use? Magic Milk- What happens when you add dish soap to milk? This is such a fun science experiment, that your preschool students will LOVE. Dancing Corn- Can you make corn dance? Complete this science experiment to find out! Oobleck- What is a solid? What is a liquid? What is Oobleck? Have fun exploring this concept with muddy pig sensory play. Farm Science for Preschool For a whole year of science fun, check out my Preschool Science Bundle.
Looking for fun All About Me Preschool Activities for kids? Check out these 9 Hands-On All About Me activities for Preschool or Kindergarten.
Social-emotional activities have never been more important for younger kids.
Transform your preschool day with effective transitions. Explore how music, chants, and stories can engage and guide children through different activities.
Embark on a colorful learning journey with our Bugs Color by Letters Printable - where alphabet activities meet fun education! #PreschoolLearning #PreschoolBugTheme
FUN shape activity for preschoolers using printable road shape mats and hotwheels for learning shapes with a car activity for toddlers.
Practicing mindfulness is a great way to calm your child and make them attentive. Here're 10 simple and quick mindfulness exercises your child will enjoy.
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Provocations can be overwhelming. Let's take a look at some simple ideas for literacy provocations found in a Reggio-Inspired Preschool.
Start your fine motor skills task box collection with this free set of playdough activity cards! This freebie also includes a label and instructions.
Apple Name Activity This editable apple name activity will help your preschool student with name recognition and scissor skills! Great decor!
Looking for fun All About Me Preschool Activities for kids? Check out these 9 Hands-On All About Me activities for Preschool or Kindergarten.
A free printable of transition songs and chants for lining up and moving in the hallway for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classrooms
Using our My Five Senses preschool mini book and some popped popcorn, you have a great activity to help youngsters learn all about sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Make sure to check out more five
I created some notebook labels for my four year old son to work on each day in his notebook! We have been doing a page or two each day and he has been loving it! I cut out all of the labels and arranged them randomly in the notebook so that we have a fun new prompt to respond to each day. My son is phenomenal speller and writer so I always challenge him to label what he has drawn. If you have older kids doing this, you can have them add a sentence or two! Sometimes we go out of order. He flips to a prompt he likes and he works on that one for the day! If this looks like something your child might enjoy, please click here to grab these labels! I hope these are helpful!
Kids will have fun while learning where do I Live with this printable activity perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
Preschool is that time and the age when kids are least bothered about their grades and are lost in their own world of exploration and learning. While they’re trying to make sense of the world around them, teachers play their crucial role as a guiding light that nurtures young
I created some notebook labels for my four year old son to work on each day in his notebook! We have been doing a page or two each d...
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR NAME It is so exciting when children become curious about how to write their name. I believe teaching them to write their name should be the first word they learn how to spell . It is personal, concrete and helps them realize that putting letters together in writing has me
A Well Written Montessori Lesson Plan Goes A Long Way To write a great Montessori lesson plan, a teacher must consider both the educational standards and the abilities of the student. The purpose of a well-written lesson plan is two-fold. The first. is to assist the teacher in lesson preparation.…
Name games are a great way for you and your students to remember everyone in class. They also build community, vocabulary and connection!
We started teaching the 4 year old class at our church this past week. They are sweetest and silliest group of kiddos. I love this age group. We hear all sorts of stories (good ones...it's church!). My favorite part is when they tell me all they know about our topic each week. They always surprise
Monster blow painting is such a fun art project for kids! First use a straw to blow liquid paint around a piece of paper. Then add googly eyes and other details to transform the colourful paint splatters into monsters! This simple process art activity gives such cool results, and you'll end up with a unique design every time! Use your imagination to create your monsters and make them as friendly, cute, silly, or even as scary as you'd like. It's such a fun craft for Halloween or anytime of year! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links
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Have fun pretending to be a zoo keeper with these 21 pages of super cute, FREE zoo printables for dramatic play for preschoolers.
FREE Printable Letter R Worksheets for Preschool are here! These worksheets are great for building fine motor skills and boosting creativity!
Social skills activities for preschoolers help improve social skills. With 20 different activities, you have plenty of ways to practice.
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Could your child have anxiety? Learn 5 sneaky signs of anxiety in children from an expert therapist so you can help your child.
A Picasso-inspired preschool shape art project is a great way to have young students practice using a gluestick while creating stunning art!
We know prayer is important, and the biggest reason is, because Jesus prayed! Even though the Bible is a big book, it’s kind of small considering it covers thousands of years of history – so, whatever is recorded is there for a purpose.Click to read more… This craft is to aide children to prayer when ... Read more
10 significant reasons to read aloud to students on a
In this blog you will see a journey being taken by students and teacher to build up our minds, muscles and imaginations together through inquiry, exploration, investigation, problem solving and teamwork!
Happy Friday!! Are you all excited for the weekend?! I sure am! I wanted to share with you something that I've been working on this summer. It's my new printable Preschool Planner! I love this
Our exploration of Art History at a preschool-level! And there's plenty for grown ups to learn and enjoy too!
Our school has an Outdoor Learning Committee that I am a part of. We all feel very strongly that the environment where the children play outside is just as important as the environment inside our school. We have worked hard to make our playground an area where the kids can run, exercise explore and yes...learn! Outside play plays an important role in children's development! They are working gross motor muscles and getting must needed exercise. They learn how to solve problems such as when social disagreements arise. They learn empathy as they help friends who get hurt. They learn to take risks and see where their limits are and feel empowered as they take those risks and succeed. They create games and role play. They learn science concepts as they discover things in nature and learn to look closer and ask questions about what they see as they discover new things. They learn kindness as they try to save an insect in danger or nurture a plant. They are literally learning about life and life skills as they play outside, so we knew the environment needed to support that. We had an area that we were having some problems with in the middle of our asphalt area. We wanted to turn it into something all of the kids could explore and benefit from and decided to create a Barefoot Sensory Path. We came up with a design and my husband figured out how to make it so that it would be sturdy and last. Our amazing PTO gave us funds to purchase the materials and we had fun shopping at Lowes for items that would provide the sensory experiences we were hoping for. Our team came in on a Saturday and went to work. Our maintenance team had dug the area down four inches so that it would be even with the asphalt. We put down a layer of paver sand, and then the 4x4's. We glued some materials to 2x2 pieces of plywood. The sections were all 2x2. We filled the sections with paver base and tamped it solid. My son even came and helped! Here is the finished frame. Of course, we had to test it out! Here is the finished path!! We were so excited for the kids to try it! It was a huge success!! The kids absolutely loved walking on it with bare feet, crawling on it and feeling with their hands and even laying in it enjoying the warmth radiating from it from being in the sun. Another new area we created was an area to create roads, ramps, etc. using scrap wood, cars, signs and other loose parts. This lovely lady below had the vision for this area! We also added an area to really work those gross motor muscles. Mr. Doyle created a boundary to keep it all contained to one area. We filled it with stumps, logs, and large branches. The kids have created obstacle courses and love lifting these up to show how strong they are! They jump, balance and create here. They collaborate and problem solve. They use both critical and creative thinking skills. This is a great area to develop 21st Century Learning Skills as they play! For our nature lovers, we have an area with plants for them to explore and observe. Some are edible such as peppermint and fennel. We have cone flowers, milkweed, irises, sunflowers and more. This area is a great place to explore and observe insects also! Here are some other things on our playground where they can let lose and have fun! Our playground is still a work in progress! We have many more ideas that we want to implement some day! One step at a time!
We learned that all motion is either caused by two kinds of force. Pushing or pulling. I set out clay and let them explore by using the forc...