Child-made ornaments hanging on the tree
The temperature is dropping, snow is falling, and Christmas ornaments are everywhere. As Christmas time is approaching we are very excited to get our classrooms prepared for the holiday season. [...]
The invisible candy cane stripes
Invisible Candy Cane Stripes I want to tell you about how Ms. Lauren introduced the children to their very own invisible candy canes stripes. Ms. Lauren began the morning by [...]
Hang on to your candy cane tubes for this!
Hang on to those candy cane tubes! Over my many years of teaching, I am finally at a point where I don't save everything that I think I might use [...]
Exploring math with a holiday graph in pre-k
I have a nice collection of holiday trinkets that I have built up over my years of teaching and these trinkets make wonderful loose parts for play and exploration around [...]
Jingle bells really do rock!
The minute the children walked into the classroom, they headed straight to the jingle bell water play station. Let me begin by telling you that the children loved this water play [...]
Tic-Tac-Bow: Simple games for the holidays
My staff and I enjoy whipping up simple games around the classroom all year long but the holidays offer up so many fun trinkets and symbols that it makes whipping up [...]
Making our own trees with clay in prek
I have already shared with you our tree farm sensory play which was a huge hit so today, I want to share with you the trees our prek students were [...]
Tree farm small world sensory play!
I wasn't sure if my students would really be all that excited about the idea but to my delight, they absolutely loved it! I put together a small world tree [...]
Gingerbread man playhouse
Gingerbread is such a fun theme to explore during the winter time. There are so many fun books to share with the children and of course, there are the gingerbread [...]
Gingerbread man exchange in preschool
Our class was recently invited to join in on a Gingerbread Man exchange. Come and see our exciting adventure with the Gingerbread Man exchange!