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Earth Day – Recycling Fun
Introduce your preschooler to learning about the Earth in these fun activities! I used these activities this month for my class at our local library and the kids loved it. One fun thing you can do is show them what they can do to help the wildlife in their area. We created a fun bird…
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Fun with Colors!
This month we learned about colors. What colors mix together to make other colors, what is a color wheel and more. First we made our own color wheel. If found color wheel templates and then they colored them and added foam stickers to really enhance the wheel. Then we played around with mixing colors. A…
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Fun with Magnets!
Fun with magnets included a lot! First they had a station where I had put multiple items in different water bottles and they could see if they were magnetic or not. It was fun for them to deduce which items would move with the wand and which ones didnt move. Assorted items used:Paper Clips Magnetic…
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FAMILY STEM: COLD WEATHER
This month we focused STEM(STEAM) on Cold Weather. The one thing I decided not to incorporate this month was the Technology portion, only because of space. Our room is only so big and I could not add anything else. The first station: Exploding Snowman – The hardest part to this one was just logistically how…
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Story Time – Chocolate/Hot Cocoa
This weeks story time was fun. We read books about chocolate and hot chocolate, we sang and made cute craft. Our first story was so sweet. I had to borrow it from outside of our district but it was worth it. Lucky Pennies and Hot Chocolate with Grandpa by Carol Diggory Sheilds. This super sweet…
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GROWING SCIENTISTS – MEASURING
You can’t have science without math, so this month we worked on measuring things. The kiddos got to measure themselves using length, various items using weight and they grew some capsules – which technically could have been a major fail – more on that later. The stations in no particular order: I found these cute…
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Play Dough Party! Snowflakes
First we started with a book of course. Snowflakes by Martha Rustad. We talked about all the fun things you can do in the snow and then I let them loose! I created these play dough mats for the kids to create their own snowflake. I printed them on card stock and then covered them…
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Cake/Cookie Story Time
Today was fun! We read stories and made a very cute craft. A skunk tries to find out which of his animal friends stole the cookies. So cute and sing songy. Each page I asked the kids what the animal could have taken the cookies was before I read the page. But no one would…
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Car – National Go For A Ride Day – Story Time
Wow – I missed posting a Story Time! I dont know how I did that but. November 22nd was National Go For A Ride Day, so I decided to do a vehicle/car story time. The books I read were…… Number One Sam by Greg Pizzoli This is a cute book about how somethings are more…
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Growing Scientists – Weather
This month we learned about different types of weather and had some fun exploring. The kids love the fizzy rainbow station. Each kiddo received a pie plate with a layer of baking soda. Then they used pipettes to squeeze different colored vinegar solution in the baking soda. Each cup was filled with vinegar with a…
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