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Country Fun School Starts
The yellow school bus has started it’s pick-up which means mixing in more formal lessons/activities for those preschoolers spending the day at “Country Fun School”. Most of our learning occurs...
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Our First Potato Harvest
Every year we have done a garden we try something new. This year it was potatoes which we were late planting and probably could have tried harvesting sooner. I had a vegetable broth soup base loaded...
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Making Butter!
The lessons for this week will be in the Preschool blog, but wanted to share the hit of the week – Making Butter! Loved the excitement while we were doing this and the smiles when we spread the...
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Beans! Not Apples
It’s Fall and that means the apple orchards around our area are open for pick your own, cider and many apple goodies. It also means I’ve gathered many appropriate apple lesson ideas – ready to pull...
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Playing with the ABC’s
I love when a young learner finds their interest in the letters of the alphabet beyond just singing the song. That interest is shown in wanting to copy words found around the classroom, pointing out...
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December: Always an Interesting Time of Year
Through all my years working with children, I have always found December to be an interesting month. It used to be we did Christmas stuff the whole month. With changes in society and respecting the...
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Making Our Own Body Part Game
I’m always on the look out for sites that will support the development of learning materials I can use with the children in my program. I do not purchase a curriculum, but prefer to construct my own...
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Monster Puppet, Sticks and Onion….. not Apples
I have the Fall preschool unit on apples and pumpkins all ready to go, but right now the children have different ideas. Since I believe that children learn best when they have a strong interest the...
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Apples, Apples and Apples
Rainy day, so no stick collecting today. Perfect to make applesauce and do some of the apple activities I have gathered for Fall lessons. It all starts with observation of our apples: numbers 1-12,...
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Adapting a Tree Activity
For multiple reasons, I do not go all Santa for activities in Dec. A main reason is not everyone I’ve had in care over the years celebrated Santa. So in years past, I started looking for alternative...
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Letter “Bb”
We’re going to start our year long ABC book with the letter “B”. Now “B” starts many interesting words and we’ll touch on many of them, but our focus is going to be “bear”. (*See end of post for update...
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Letter “Zz”
Our next letter is “Zz”. Children usually go to “zebra” when you ask them what starts with “Zz”. Zebras are a natural draw with their clear black and white coloring and being similar to familiar...
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Letter “Cc”
Our next letter is “Cc”. I thought it would be all about caterpillar, especially having just watched our Monarch butterfly hatch, but no…… “Cc” is for Cookies. These books will be read at our shared...
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