When I was teaching Kindergarten in my early 20s, I found myself elbow deep while carving a pumpkin with my littles. I loved every minute of it; my skin did not. 🙅🏻♀️ I broke out in a rash everywhere the pumpkin enzymes had touched my skin. I can eat and drink pumpkin flavored foods, I can carry a pumpkin, but the inside and I do not get along. Weird, I know…
When your Dad shows up to school for the first time ever, you sit in his lap while your teacher Mommy melts. 🥰 This activity was a great way to incorporate clouds with math, and even letter making, as B pointed out. The idea was to roll the pocket cube and place the corresponding number of clouds (AKA = cotton balls) onto the picture scene. This kind of activity is great for…
While learning about clouds, we read It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw and then did this “cloudy art” activity from the curriculum. Mixing white paint with water was a FANTASTIC combination so that the kids could suck it up with a pipette and drop it onto the thick blue paper to make a beautiful contrast. ☁️ We also had one cup filled with just white paint and another…
On Sunday, I started “growing” water beads and kept adding more as they expanded to make sure we’d be able to fill 2 trays worth. B has been asking EVERY SINGLE DAY since, if it’s time to play with them. My “not yet” has been met with some deep toddler disappointment, but it’s also been a lesson in patience (a lifelong skill). Finally, today was the day…
As a self-proclaimed lover or bright colors, 🌈 I think these are BEAUTIFUL! 🤩 They’re also functional, educational, and reusable, so there is absolutely no reason not to do this activity. First, write your child’s name in dot markers and see if they can identify their name as well as identify or name the letters in it. They’ll enjoy matching colored bears to the corresponding colored letters in…
Cc is a new letter for us and since you all already know paper 📝 and pencil aren’t my thing, here you go. 😉 Make the desired letter using tape and place a cotton ball on one end, which you could refer to as “the starting line.” The goal is to blow 💨 the cotton ball all the way to the other end, or “the finish line” 🏁 using the straw. Can you…