Tag: kids
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Dress for Mess
At our school kids get messy. One of the first things we say to new parents is: dress for mess, aprons are optional, we play in mud and we get dirty. Every day. A lot. Every year we have kids that love getting muddy, wet and dirty and kids that don’t. Funny thing is though, […]
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Suncatchers from DVD cases
I knew I wanted to do a project with these as soon as I saw them but I wasn’t really sure what to do. I didn’t want to make anything too crafty. I wanted to make something abstract with the kids. Something they would love making their own. In the end I decided to leave […]
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Our Skittle Experiment
The scientific method is defined as a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data is gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from this data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested. And that is what we did yesterday in our Skittles Experiment. We gathered our candy, looked at it, described it and saw how the color melts. […]
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Too Much Glue
Kids love glue. I love it too. So I don’t insist they only use a little bit in their work. I explain the benefits of little vs. ton of glue… but let them decide and try it out. After all, glue is fun. It is a really great sensory activity, it is affordable and using too […]
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The Marble Project
It hasn’t been a week since the school started. Actually, it only was a couple of days and some kids only saw each other once or twice. Yet, they are working together amazingly well. Yesterday they decided to play with marbles. The marble run was their favorite toy these past few days and they were […]
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Matisse Self Portraits
Henri Matisse is always a hit with the kids. They like the idea of painting with scissors and they absolutely love guessing what animal is hiding in his painting (though they rarely think it is a snail). We are starting our journaling next week. I got the primary journals for the kids all ready […]
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Working Together
One of my favorite artists to introduce to the kids is Henri Matisse. They always love the fact that he ‘painted with scissors,’ they usually want to dip the scissors to paint and do it as well 😉 and they really enjoy doing the paper collages. This time, we decided to work together to create […]
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Hello Songs to Start our Day
Every year I try to find the ultimate hello song for my preschool classroom. We tried several ones in the past and this one was the most popular one by far: This year I am trying to find more songs so I can take turns with them – keeping the kids interested and running to […]
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Traveling Gnome
I have been going back and forth with the idea of a stuffed animal being sent home with the kids every week, logging its adventures. I know the kids tend to love it. I know the parents sometimes don’t. It can encourage literacy but it can also become a ‘competition. I have been torn on […]
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All about Apples
It would not be a proper fall without apples! We spent a lot of time learning about them. We explored the apples with our five senses and wrote down our observations. We measured, weighted and cut open our apples (to count the seeds inside). We did a taste test with 5 different kind of apples […]
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