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Filed under: Arts and Crafts, Featured, Personalize, Role Play, Teaching Ideas
Sock Puppets
by Cheryl Villareal on Oct 12th, 2010
Making puppets or at least seeing puppets is one experience every preschooler should go through! Besides the activity's connection to our current lesson on feet, it was also a good way to help those kids who feared puppets. Puppets can be anything you want them to be... animals, community helpers, family members or the students themselves! It's really easy to connect with whatever lesson you have. Since we are still learning a lot about our se...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Featured, Games and Activities, Role Play, Sand and Sea, Senses and Body Parts, Teaching Ideas
Let’s Walk Barefooted
by Cheryl Villareal on Oct 10th, 2010
What can your feet do? I can use my feet to walk, run and jump! But did you know your feet can also feel things? We asked the children to bring a pair of slippers for our week's topic about the feet! Instead of wearing shoes to school, they wore their slippers. And after a short discussion about the feet, it was time to take them for a SENSORY WALK. Now, this could have been a lot more fun outdoors, unfortunately, the school I work at does n...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Cooking in Class, Featured, Fruits and Vegetables, Teaching Ideas
Hot Potato
by Cheryl Villareal on Oct 9th, 2010
While on the topic of hands, we also learned about hot and cold objects! What a perfect opportunity to cook with the kids! We wanted them to be able to see how cooking can soften up something and so we decided to make some Mashed Potatoes! To start off, we danced to the song HOT POTATO by the Wiggles! My students last year loved this song, and so did the kids this year! We played it more than 10 times during free play the following day due to ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Numbers, Teaching Ideas
Number Hunt
by Cheryl Villareal on Oct 7th, 2010
It's always fun to go hunting... for ANYTHING! This is why most kids, despite religion or faith always have fun during Easter Egg Hunts! Whenever we are learning new concepts such as numbers, shapes or letters; we often go on a hunt as a review. In this case, we went on a number hunt! The goal was to find the number 2! It's really easy to prepare! Just print out some numbers, or you could just write them on a piece of art paper. During c...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Arts and Crafts, Featured, Messy art, Skill development, Teaching Ideas
Box Kicking Art
by Cheryl Villareal on Oct 7th, 2010
Toddlers are still learning the different skills their body can perform. Jumping, walking, running are some of the activities that they are still learning to perfect. Throwing objects is part of these skills, and so is kicking things. To adults, kicking is just like walking with force! It's a very simple task for us, but for these kids, kicking means letting loose of what foot and making sure the other foot is able to keep balance! Here's anot...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Arts and Crafts, Featured, Messy art, Skill development, Teaching Ideas
Squeeze Painting
by Cheryl Villareal on Oct 4th, 2010
We were on the topic of hands and wanted the kids to something unique. We started off by asking them: "What can your hands do?" They then suggested a variety of things from clapping to building! Some even suggested walking which then led to us trying to walk with our hands! A sure funny scene! We then suggested hugging and squeezing! We hugged the stuffed bears and hugged each other! As for the squeezing, we used those little squeaky toys and tri...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Arts and Crafts, Edible crafts, Featured, Messy art, Sand and Sea, Skill development, Teaching Ideas
Fruit Loop Sand Art
by Cheryl Villareal on Oct 3rd, 2010
Fruit loops are really good to eat, but they're also fun to play with! I have used fruit loop several times before, and I'm using it again! This time however, we decided to crush the fruit loop and turn it into sand! You may also use colored sand as an alternative, however, using fruit loop takes away the fear that one of our kids might swallow it and get a tummy ache! . . What you will need Fruit Loop Printed picture Crayons G...Read More » Tags
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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: Arts and Crafts, Featured, Halloween, Holiday crafts, Science Experiments, Teaching Ideas
We made sticky, oozy, goo!
by Cheryl Villareal on Sep 29th, 2010
A few days ago, we were learning all about our hands and how our hands can feel various things! We tried touching soft and hard objects, rough and smooth, hot and cold! But there was something that the kids were not use to feeling everyday! We wanted them to feel sticky, oozy, goo! After touching it and exploring with it, we asked them how it felt. We didn't get a single answer! The goo just left them speechless and in awe. It seemed as if they h...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Contests and Announcements, Inspirational Stories, Lifestyle and Events, Random thoughts, Teaching Tales
Lost DSLR Reunited with Owner
by Cheryl Villareal on Sep 28th, 2010
I wasn't planning to blog about this, but since several people have been asking me what happened to the camera.... here it is! Last Tuesday, September 21, I got into a cab empty handed and walked out with a DSLR camera. It was left behind by the owner, and I decided to take it home. HOLD ON.... I decided to take it home and FIND the owner! I carefully looked through the bag and was disappointed on not finding a cellphone or any item that co...Read More » Tags
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