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Filed under: Animals and Insects, Arts and Crafts, Featured, Seasons, Senses and Body Parts, Spring, Teaching Ideas
Handprint Butterflies
by Cheryl Villareal on Sep 30th, 2010
I have two hands... the left and the right! Perfect for the wings of a beautiful butterfly! There must be 20 or more crafts for kids on butterflies! I wanted to do them all but I think the kids would walk out on me if I made them do all. So, my partner and I settled with handprint butterflies! It's really simple to make and easy to prepare. . What you will need Construction paper with solid color Patterned Paper (gift wrapper) Po...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Animals and Insects, Colors and Shapes, Featured, Teaching Ideas
Elephant CDs
by Cheryl Villareal on Aug 12th, 2010
Do you still have your old CDs from way back and have no idea what to do with them? Well why not turn them into animals? This week, our class studied the concepts of long and short! So to further strengthen the discussion, we had them make elephant CDs and play with its long nose! As I showed them a sample, I also showed them how the nose started short and grew longer and longer! It's really easy to do and the kids had a lot of fun stretching ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Animals and Insects, Colors and Shapes, Seasons, Spring, Teaching Ideas
Ladybug Ladybug!
by Cheryl Villareal on Aug 7th, 2010
Besides circles, we are also currently discussing the color red! Hence... the red apples and now, the ladybug! :) We started off by reading the Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle! We did however have to simplify it since we were dealing with toddlers! After telling them the story, we showed them our ladybug! I let them play with it a little and later on asked them if they wanted to make a ladybug of their own! So if you want to make one too.. here'...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Animals and Insects, Arts and Crafts, Colors and Shapes, Seasons, Spring, Teaching Ideas
The Hungry Caterpillar goes ROUND and COLORFUL
by Cheryl Villareal on Jul 27th, 2010
This week, the kiddos are learning all about the circle shape! Shapes are such a fun thing to teach because there's just so many things we can do! Though, we do have to restrict ourselves from doing too much cause we might ran out of activities for future lessons. (hehe) - For our circle activity, we decided to have the children make caterpillars! If you're a kindergarten teacher, I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say there are several w...Read More » Tags
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