Tag: preschool
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Curriculum – yes or no?
When I started teaching for the first time, the thought of no curriculum seemed scary, overwhelming and honestly, ridiculous. How can I teach when I have no idea what to teach? Would it be any different than just babysitting the kids? How will I explain to the parents what we do all day? It was…
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Our Summer Playdates
We just finished our last playdate for the summer. It was amazing how many families were able to join us and play with us. My own kids are anxious about things they don’t know. They tend to get overwhelmed by new and unexpected, like most people do. So when I was opening the preschool, one of…
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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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Beautiful fall leaves
Fall in Sammamish can be pretty beautiful. We have been admiring the beautiful fall leaves for the past couple of weeks. Kids have been asking questions about the leaves, commenting on the amazing colors, and every day they have been looking for the smallest and largest leaves from our huge maple tree behind the preschool.…
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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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