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Top 5 Books in our Classroom
Holes in your nose We started our year with many books about ourselves and our bodies and this one – by far – the most favorite one of them all. Who wouldn’t be interested in holes in their nose? Did you know that some animals have just one? Did you know how boogers are made?…
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Cards for Moms
Making gifts for moms has become a ‘thing’ in my classroom now. We make gifts for them almost every day. Kids want to make pictures for their moms. They want to pick flowers for them. They want to wrap pieces of papers as presents for them (the more of them there are and the more…
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Building a House
Yesterday the kids decided that my house burned down and I need a new one. What followed was amazing. They started talking about what my house needs and of course, since they are four boys, the main focus was bathrooms. As of now, my new house has 18 of them (one of them being inside…
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Earth Day Celebration
I would love to invite you all to a free Earth Day event at Artree Preschool this Saturday April 22nd (from 10 to 12). – Create Earth day with us by creating clay pendants and painting a giant upcycled cake. – Plant sunflowers to take home. – Spin a wheel of fortune and win a crafty…
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Happy Pi Day
Have you ever wondered what’s inside a computer keyboard? Well, my little engineers don’t need to wonder anymore – they know! 🙂 We celebrated Pi Day yesterday by opening two old computer keyboards and popping all of the little keys outside. It kept 5 kids busy for over an hour so I think it was…
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Pet Rocks Rock
We have been talking about animals this month, especially pets. And since not all of the kids have pets at home, we decided to make our own. We chose the rocks (everybody got two) we wanted to use and gave them a proper bath. The kids loved splashing and scrubbing the rocks clean. Then they…
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Pink glasses for everyone!
What color glasses would you wear if you had a choice? We explored light, colors and color mixing with these awesome glasses. Kids had a blast and tried one, two and even six of them at the same time. ‘It is orange!’ cried one. ‘I made it really dark! It’s so dark I don’t even…
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Today we were sitting at our table, eating snack, reading books and talking about Valentine’s day. What it is and what it means for us. I asked the kids how we celebrate it. They looked at me for a while and then said: ‘by loving everyone!’ I love that answer! (Even though I totally did…
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Self portrait and lines
What is a line? A dot that went for a walk. — Paul Klee I started today’s at project with a mission in mind – I’m documenting kids work during the year and would like to make them a book (presentation folder) that will hold the most memorable moments. And that book needs an awesome…
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Mailing letters filled with paint
Painting letters V really enjoyed putting together huge letters today. It started slowly. He wanted to paint over some doodles he made on a paper. Then he wanted to paint another piece of paper… and then he experimented. What would happen if I put them on top of each other? This simple inquiry resulted in…
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