Saturday, September 29, 2012

Mama Knows It All: Cooking and Food Myths

Mama Knows It All: Cooking and Food Myths: It wasn't long ago that I was posting about how I really didn't like cooking. I love cookbooks, reading about food, but the actual, physica...

The Mobile Native: 50 Shades of Mobile

The Mobile Native: 50 Shades of Mobile: Smart phones (MLDs) 1.    SMCS Mobile Learning Technology 2.    The Mobile Learning Portal 3.    Learning in Hand 4.    Cybrary...

Friday, September 28, 2012

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: The Captivating Teacher Manifesto

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: The Captivating Teacher Manifesto: I want to be captivating. I want to entrance students with my subject. I want students fascinated to walk into my classroom. I am the t...

Monday, September 24, 2012

Learn with Play @ home: Sticker Resist Fingerprint Art/Cards

Learn with Play @ home: Sticker Resist Fingerprint Art/Cards: This activity provides a fun and sensory way for children to get creative whilst personalising something for themselves or as a gi...

Learn with Play @ home: Decorating Cupcakes (With added Literacy skills!)

Learn with Play @ home: Decorating Cupcakes (With added Literacy skills!): For Grandpa's birthday we decided to bake him some cupcakes. When they were done, I thought we'd include just a little more learning into t...

Learn with Play @ home: The A-Z of Learning Letters. 90+ ways to teach you...

Learn with Play @ home: The A-Z of Learning Letters. 90+ ways to teach you...: Letters are everywhere! It's no wonder that often long before children start school they will start talking about, noticing and questionin...

Learn with Play @ home: Alphabet Order Game

Learn with Play @ home: Alphabet Order Game: This is a super easy and quick game to set up that includes singing and will challenge your child's memory  and help them with their lett...

Learn with Play @ home: Multi-Tool Painting

Learn with Play @ home: Multi-Tool Painting: Another way we like to paint is with different painting tools on the same picture. It can create a lovely effect while also engaging your ch...

Learn with Play @ home: Cardboard Tube Marble Run

Learn with Play @ home: Cardboard Tube Marble Run: Today we made our own, simple Marble Run from cardboard tubes.  It was great that such a simple and fun activity could include so ...

Mess For Less: Small Hands Creating Hope

Mess For Less: Small Hands Creating Hope

Mess For Less: The 10 Most Influential Kid Bloggers Out There

Mess For Less: The 10 Most Influential Kid Bloggers Out There

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Creative and Curious Kids!: Have a POTATO Day!

Creative and Curious Kids!: Have a POTATO Day!: Why? You ask.  Why not.  Because there is a lot of learning you can do with potatoes.  Here are some activities that I had fun sharing with ...

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: Fall Crafts: Coffee Filter Apple Art for Kids

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: Fall Crafts: Coffee Filter Apple Art for Kids: I was prepping this little apple art activity for my preschoolers this weekend when the Lil Divas decided they wanted to make it too. We ha...

Kids Creative Chaos: Storytime ~ Teach Kids to Weave a Web of Wonder wi...

Kids Creative Chaos: Storytime ~ Teach Kids to Weave a Web of Wonder wi...: Storytime Woes?   Have you ever tried it with a room full of little people under the age of two?  What a fun experience, it takes a roo...

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Planning to teach from A to Z

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Planning to teach from A to Z: As you plan to create a place of teaching and learning, think through these aspects of your classroom. I've shared some important points of ...

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas t...

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas t...: The Unspoken Truth About Influential Liars | UNSPOKEN ~ Social Media Jure Klepic calls it like he se...

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Creative and Curious Kids!: Collage Activity: The Color Red

Creative and Curious Kids!: Collage Activity: The Color Red:  LM- age 33 months  We're exploring red this week, so I did a simple collage activity with the kids. You could add more to this if y...

Dopamine and Learning: What The Brain’s Reward Center Can Teach Educators

Dopamine and Learning: What The Brain’s Reward Center Can Teach Educators: How important is dopamine to learning?  Read more to learn about how dopamine is produced and how learning is retained in the brain.

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: Exploring Shapes and Colors with Color Farm and Co...

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: Exploring Shapes and Colors with Color Farm and Co...: This month's  Virtual Book Club for Kids  author is Lois Ehlert. We have read many of her books over the years so my plan was to...

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RainbowsWithinReach: Starting the Day Routines at School

RainbowsWithinReach: Starting the Day Routines at School: Are your routines beginning to take root?  Are your expectations spelled out?  Are there clues and cues for your visual learners?  ...

Mess For Less: 14 Ways to Teach Children to Enjoy Simple Pleasures

Mess For Less: 14 Ways to Teach Children to Enjoy Simple Pleasures

Migraines Linked To Behavioral Problems In Kids

Migraines Linked To Behavioral Problems In Kids

Learning Ideas - Grades K-8: Addition Matching Game with Doubles

Learning Ideas - Grades K-8: Addition Matching Game with Doubles: I have a fun Math Activity for the kids to use to help them develop fluency with their Addition Facts . This Spooky Spider themed math ac...

Monday, September 17, 2012

Living At The Whitehead's Zoo: The Garden Classroom by Cathy James Review

Living At The Whitehead's Zoo: The Garden Classroom by Cathy James Review: The Garden Classroom: 52 Kids Gardening Activities By: Cathy James With school just beginning I feel like it is a great time to tell...

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Playfully Learning: Easy Science Center

Playfully Learning: Easy Science Center: I had been looking at great photos of science centers in classrooms and wanted to start off the year with some interesting things in ...

Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Mobile Native: Recent Mobile Learning Findings

The Mobile Native: Recent Mobile Learning Findings: iPads : 1.   iPad Apps Separated by Subject Area 2.   103 Interesting Ways to Use iPads in the Classroom 3.   iPad/iPod Resources...

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Living At The Whitehead's Zoo: Wordless Wednesday "Man in Red" with Linky

Living At The Whitehead's Zoo: Wordless Wednesday "Man in Red" with Linky: Thanks for dropping in for Wordless Wednesday.  My daughter spied this guy while out and about in Orlando, Florida and had to take his photo...

Monday, September 10, 2012

Structured Play: Apple Sensory Box

Structured Play: Apple Sensory Box: This month's Sensory Box is filled with red! We have apples, flowers, feathers, puff balls and more! I used rice as the filler and put a ...

Sunday, September 9, 2012

The Activity Mom: Counting with Foam Stickers

The Activity Mom: Counting with Foam Stickers: This counting activity was another way to put those foam shapes to use. As he put the numbers in order, I quickly drew dots on a piece of p...

The Activity Mom: 12 Ways to Learn with Stickers

The Activity Mom: 12 Ways to Learn with Stickers: Paper Towel Tube Letter Matching Making Patterns Quick Sticker Puzzles Sticker Scenes Make a Matchi...

The Activity Mom: Responsibility Charts

The Activity Mom: Responsibility Charts: Materials: Cardstock, Stickers When B was about 15 months old, I needed some sort of incentive to get him to brush his teeth, get his clot...

The Activity Mom: Pocket Chart Activities

The Activity Mom: Pocket Chart Activities: When my big girls were schooling at home, I used pocket charts to display their spelling/sight words. They were inexpensive and colorf...

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

15 Designer Pumpkin Ideas

15 Designer Pumpkin Ideas

Labor Day Muffin Tin Monday

Labor Day Muffin Tin Monday

Me and my shadow: Halloween Mason Jar Crafts

Me and my shadow: Halloween Mason Jar Crafts: Here's some easy, quick and thrifty ideas for turning empty jam jars / mason jars into spooky Halloween lanterns.  They all use house...

Learning for Life: Developing High Quality Role Play

Learning for Life: Developing High Quality Role Play:   I was very lucky to go & hear the wonderful early years advocate, Margaret Edgington speak last week on developing high quality role pla...

Brick by Brick: Hammer Painting

Brick by Brick: Hammer Painting: This week with my kindergartners at church, we tried something a little new - hammer painting. First, fold the page in half. Spread pai...

Tuesday Tots

Tuesday Tots