Tag: preschool
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Let’s Chat with Artists: Aline Bloch
In our free online lesson Reduce, Reuse & Recycle, we show you how to create art out of seemingly useless items that would normally end up in trash. The bright pink art piece that we made was inspired by Louise Nevelson, a famous sculptor who lived in the past century. We recently had the opportunity…
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Virtual Preschool: Worms and Snails
This week we talk about our two favorite books: Superworm and Whale and the Snail. Earthworms are pretty amazing. Did you know that they have 5 hearts and some of them can be 12 feet long? (luckily these do not live in the US ;)). We will tell you all about them in this lesson.…
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Virtual Preschool: Butterflies
This week we are talking about butterflies. We will make a lapbook. I do not think we have made one yet this year… basically, you need a paper folder (or two sheets of paper taped together to look like a folder) and we draw, cut and paste a lot of things into it to make…
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Virtual Preschool: Three Little Pigs
Three little pigs have been my favorite story for a long time. I love the different versions of the books and I know kids just adore building the houses, knocking them down and pretend-play the big bad wolf. It is always a hit. This week we make puppets for our retelling of the story and…
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Virtual Preschool: The Gruffalo
Our first virtual preschool is going to be about The Gruffalo. Why? We were in the middle of our book-club project when the pandemic forced us to shut down… so we have not finished exploring all the books that we wanted to. The Gruffalo is one of the kids’ favorite books. I have read it…
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Color Exploration
Going back to school holding a pumpkin spice latte in the rain to do an exploration unit of color and you know it’s September. We always start that way in one form or another. All our kids love mixing colors, making new ones, giving them names… and are fascinated by the relationships of primary and…
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Shaving Cream Cupcakes (bakery project 8)
Today we made cupcakes. Cupcakes with shaving cream. We love combining sensory exploration with art. These two things go together so well and at this time and age when kids are afraid to get their hands dirty, it is something we try to do as much as we can. We started with shaving cream and…
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Spices, Pancakes, Mud and Glue (bakery project, 7)
Our bakery project is going really well. We have bee doing so many little things, I just wanted to share some of them. We have been crushing spices – cinnamon, cardamon, cloves and more. It made our preschool smell so nice! We baked muffins, waffles and pancakes. Pancakes were the biggest hit. We measured and…
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Head in the Oven (baking project, 6)
Our bakery needed a new oven. We decided our small wooden oven does not cut it for 12 kids. So when I brought home this huge, sturdy box from Costco – I knew it will make a lot of kids very happy. And it did. First day, I just brought the box in the classroom…
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Designing our Cakes (bakery project, 5)
Sometimes we stick to 2D art. Sharpies and watercolors are always a good choice. I am proud to say our kids have mastered the process. They know not to use sharpies once they start coloring the picture in with watercolors. They know that if they count to 10 while picking up the paint with their brush,…
Artree: online preschool 