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This blog will contain information to help one find some fun things to do with preschoolers. It will also have some insight into helping preschoolers and you enjoy those early years together.
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"On Dasher, On Dancer..."
On the day we had our visit from Santa, we also did some fun reindeer activities. First we made our reindeer with handprint antlers. I always use this reindeer for our Christmas program. I gave each of the children a piece of paper with a large tria...
Color Books Go Home!
The children were so excited--they got to take their color books home today. After more than two months of working on them, this is a big day for them. Each day after we would finish a page they would always ask if they could,"take it home and show t...
Jolly Old St. Nick
We had a visit from the big man himself this Thursday. That's right, Santa came to visit us. We are lucky that our community's town watch has a Santa that visits local nursery schools and daycare centers. We don't tell the children that he is coming...
All That Glitters....
If it's the Christmas season, you know there is lots of glitter in the classroom. I just love making crafts with glitter; they're so sparkly. But, my favorite part is the looks on the children's faces. They love to see the final transformation of th...
Keen on Green
I know, it's a corny title, but I was looking for a rhyme.We did the color green at school last week and of course we had lots of fun with it!Our color book pages consisted of painting an evergreen tree and giving a frog green spots. For the evergre...
Brown, Brown, All Around
http://www.hanammarbles.com/html/onyx/multi_col_%20brown_big.htmOur color this week was brown. I'm not sure if it's me, but this color doesn't come as easily as the others. They like to call this color black, even though they identify black correctl...
Purple Murple
This title is a shout out to my helper, Mrs. T., at school. She just loves to say purple murple. I hear it quite a lot during purple week. Plus, she was a good sport when I gave her a purple paint shower this week so she deserves some recognition. T...
Back in Black
Oooo, what a dark week we had: Halloween and the color black--scary, scary.This week, trying to incorporate some Halloween activities, get ready for our parent program, and discuss the color black, didn't leave me much time for extras. Here is what w...
"Pumpkins" on Parade
On Thursday we had our Halloween parade with all my little "pumpkins." They did so well. No one cried during the festivities although we had some tears after. We always have a little performance for the family when they come and they did so well! I ...
Beautiful Blue
I know, I know, I'm a bit behind. We are working on black this week and I haven't even posted our blue. We went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch last we so our "blue" experience was a little short. Anyway, here is what we did.The first page of o...
Outrageous Orange
Before I begin, I just wanted to take a second and say: Yes, I am still here! Life is just moving at the speed of sound here and I'm having some time management trouble. Every time I think I have everything down, something else happens. I thought I w...
A Walk in the Park
(this was the cutest hat)We always begin our fall discussions with a fall nature hike. We had a beautiful day to do this. Since it was the beginning of our yellow week, I asked the children to find something yellow while we were at the park. They all...
Hello Yellow
Our color last week was the color yellow. Our whole day on Thursday was pretty much devoted to this beautiful color. (I must admit it holds a special place in my heart.)Our painting project was to roller paint a sun yellow for our color book. This w...
Fun With Red
Our color for the past week was red. Whenever we do colors I try to have them experience them in different ways. We also create a color book to go home at the end of our color fun.On Tuesday we all wore red to school. I always think it's so cute whe...
Family Tree
Our "All About Me" unit finishes up with a family page in the Me Book. Throughout the years I have done many different types of activities for this page. We have sponge painted people and pets, but this can take quite a long time if you have some bi...
"A Few of My Favorite Things...."
We are continuing with our All About Me theme while also incorporating our colors and this week, apples. We began our day by reviewing the book we read on Thursday, "The Greatest Me There Could Ever Be," by Vicki J. Kuyper. Then we discussed the dif...
How Big Am I?
A popular theme at the beginning of the year is Who Am I? We began discussions of this aspect Thursday. I always read this great book we have that is called, "I'm the Greatest Me There Could Ever Be!", by Vicki J. Kuyper. It talks about people's dif...
"Monster" Rules
Since this is the first experience for some of the little ones in a classroom, many are unaware of some important proper "etiquette" habits for the room. Years ago I came across a little story in my McMillan activities pack that has always been very...
Friendship Day
I must report to you--NO TEARS! They all came upstairs, we did opening, we played, we ate, we sang, we created. No one cried, and only a couple started asking me, "When is my mom coming?," around 11:00. Can you believe it? I don't think anyone in the...
And We're Off!
The Pre-K class had their first day today. It is so fun to see these little ones again. I am always present as director on this day. There I am in my skirt, heels, nice shirt, and even jewelry. The little ones come in and have to look twice before t...
Updating My Centers
I have been very busy trying to update the block and family center at our school. For the family center, if you remember, the course I was taking recommended having a specific entering and exiting point. Our family area was wide open, no real define...
Meet the Teacher Night
At our school we have an evening right before school starts where the children come to see the room and meet their teachers. We call it an Open House as they may come anytime within a certain time period. Some years ago, when I was on maternity leav...
A Special Sitting Spot
So, what is my big new project? Every year we make what we call "name shapes" for the children to sit on during gathering time, or circle time. We used to make them out of construction paper and then laminated them, we then had to make new ones in D...
Laminators.....AAHHH!
(not really me--photo courtesy of microsoft clipart)I, along with many others, am in the process of doing those millions of things to get ready for the new school year. I'm not really sure they were thinking correctly when they put me in charge, or m...
Word Family Strips
This activity might be a bit above the beginning preschooler, but I thought I would share it. The project actually came about because I am trying to help my youngest with sight words. He can sound the words out, but still does not have them down by ...
Cooking With Children Help?
(photo courtesy of Microsoft Clip Art)Hi everyone. I am looking for a little help. This coming year at school I want to incorporate working with food much more often. I am keeping an eye out for very simple, maybe even non-cooking recipes, that I ca...
Catalog Chaos
(photo: Microsoft Office Clipart)Hi everyone. Shh. Don't tell anyone I'm here. I'm going to whisper. Do you remember where I'm supposed to be? That's right, the basement. Guess what? I haven't stepped foot in there yet. I'm like a kid being told to ...
Clay?
I have begun a new course entitled "Making Learning Fun." For the most part it is a repeat of my last two courses--very helpful with my brain! Anyway, I was just reading a segment on using clay with young children.Both of the articles are very enthu...
The End is Near
Many teachers like to give their children something at the end of the year. A few years ago my son got the cutest gift from his kindergarten teacher. I have saved it all these years(the scroll)--he starts middle school next year. I contacted his tea...
Graduation
Last night we had our Pre-K graduation ceremony. These types of celebrations are always so adorable and the parents just love them. It went extremely well and I am so proud of the boys and girls. The teachers did a wonderful job too putting everythi...
