Thursday, October 25, 2012

What is Choline?

What is Choline?

Learn with Play at home: Very Hungry Caterpillar Party Activity

Learn with Play at home: Very Hungry Caterpillar Party Activity: When we first saw this super fun activity from our friends at Teach Preschool, straight away I knew that if I ever did a Very Hun...

RainbowsWithinReach: Trees 'Growing' in the Classroom: Tree RoundUP

RainbowsWithinReach: Trees 'Growing' in the Classroom: Tree RoundUP: TREE ROUNDUP!!! All sorts of trees created in the classroom. I started this post because of these next two photos of  three dim...

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Activity Mom: Leaf Number Cards (printable)

The Activity Mom: Leaf Number Cards (printable): Yesterday we shared a Leaf Color Matching printable that was inspired by the colors on the trees this time of year! Today we'd like to sh...

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: 75 Fun Ways to Practice and Learn Spelling Words

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: 75 Fun Ways to Practice and Learn Spelling Words: My first grader has a spelling list of 10 words each week that she has to learn. As a teacher, I was always on the giving end of these ...

Monday, October 22, 2012

Mama Pea Pod: {Our Chore System - Learning About Responsibility ...

Mama Pea Pod: {Our Chore System - Learning About Responsibility ...: We have recently implemented a system for chores at our house. When Princess Pea was about 3 1/2 we started giving her little jobs tha...

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: Fall Themed Sensory Table in Preschool

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: Fall Themed Sensory Table in Preschool: My goal for this year is to present my preschoolers with a fun sensory table each month. In September we explored Water Beads   and I wanted...

Friday, October 19, 2012

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: You don't need another gadget to be a great teache...

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: You don't need another gadget to be a great teache...: As I'm heading to S DE's PowerUP with Technology conference in Chicago , I'm pondering the two kinds of teachers. There are two kinds of tea...

Thursday, October 18, 2012

The Innovative Educator: Make your flipped classroom interactive

The Innovative Educator: Make your flipped classroom interactive: Another reason I'm not flipping over the flipped classroom model is that passively watching videos isn't great pedagogy. Now there's a pr...

Learn with Play @ home: Dinosaur Activities on Tuesday Tots

Learn with Play @ home: Dinosaur Activities on Tuesday Tots: Welcome to this weeks TUESDAY TOTS  Tuesday Tots is a place where bloggers from all around the world are invited to share their ...

Toddler Approved!: Beginning Sounds Pumpkin Patch Match

Toddler Approved!: Beginning Sounds Pumpkin Patch Match: I have been working with my 4 year old on recognizing beginning sounds in words and reading simple cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) wo...

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Kids Creative Chaos: Fall Farm Fun with The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wi...

Kids Creative Chaos: Fall Farm Fun with The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wi...: Here is a simple craft for Preschool Curriculum: Make your own Big Red Barn and Silo. We made this project in our Messy Class. What be...

The Pinay Homeschooler: Beginning and Ending Sounds

The Pinay Homeschooler: Beginning and Ending Sounds: Before starting our Montessori Green Series, I gave my son some Pink and Blue Language worksheets for assessment. Well, I was disappoint...

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Kindergarten's 3 R's: Respect, Resources and Rants: Simple Sight Word Spider

Kindergarten's 3 R's: Respect, Resources and Rants: Simple Sight Word Spider: You'll need a 9 X 12 piece of black construction paper, and eight black rectangles measuring 2 1/2 X 6 for the legs. I used a handwriting ...

RainbowsWithinReach: Kindness, Bucket Filling: Emotional Intelligence

RainbowsWithinReach: Kindness, Bucket Filling: Emotional Intelligence: KINDNESS. FILLING BUCKETS:  EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.   It's time for a RoundUP of oodles of ways to reinforce the positive.  ...

Moving Smart: ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT

Moving Smart: ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT: New Zealand won its first gold of The Olympics today in Double Sculls. Congratulations Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan for showing the worl...

Mama Jenn: Ten Commandments {Printables & Copywork}

Mama Jenn: Ten Commandments {Printables & Copywork}: We have been working through My Father’s World Creation to the Greeks . As part of the curriculum, we have been learning/reviewing the Ten C...

Sunday, October 14, 2012

little illuminations: Fabulous Fall Bulletin Boards

little illuminations: Fabulous Fall Bulletin Boards: I've had several requests lately to post pictures and ideas of fall bulletin boards. Here are a sample of some of my fall boards (past and p...

10 Resources for World Food Day

10 Resources for World Food Day

Kids Crafts: Halloween Crafts – Eye Balls

Kids Crafts: Halloween Crafts – Eye Balls

User Pays: Off the Bodies of Women...

User Pays: Off the Bodies of Women...: I never knew I'd develop a taste for a single malt scotch. It's a drink that, like the process used to create it, "distills" flavours, time,...

Friday, October 12, 2012

The Activity Mom: Color Trays

The Activity Mom: Color Trays: When I first introduced LM to color activities, he was about 18 months old. The idea of a color tray was to immerse him in the particular co...

Honey Bee Books: 7 children's book blogs I love to read!

Honey Bee Books: 7 children's book blogs I love to read!: This week I thought I would share some of my favourite children's book blogs. These fabulous bloggers are the ones responsible for my rid...

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: Kids Craft: Coffee Filter Spray Art Bats

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas: Kids Craft: Coffee Filter Spray Art Bats: This past week I was teaching my preschoolers a little about spiders and bats. Of course I think up way more ideas than we have time to ...

Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Golden Gleam: Fun Kid Activities with Pumpkins

The Golden Gleam: Fun Kid Activities with Pumpkins: How great to have Sugarsnips guest posting on The Golden Gleam.  As a former scientist, her blog reflects that in the discovery activitie...

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Moms Like Me: Jelly Bean Math & Color Sorting

Moms Like Me: Jelly Bean Math & Color Sorting: We've been doing lots of math lately with our leftover Easter jelly beans. The kids have been having fun sorting them, counting them, and c...

Moms Like Me: Apple Math - Patterns and Sorting

Moms Like Me: Apple Math - Patterns and Sorting: My original idea for apple patterns was to have the kids color their own apples, but I was a little worried with how those would turn out, a...

Moms Like Me: Apple Language Development

Moms Like Me: Apple Language Development: Today, I had all my preschool kids home so I decided to dive into something a little more advanced (though my 3 year old did great with it!)...

Moms Like Me: Apple Stamping

Moms Like Me: Apple Stamping: It's getting to be my favorite time of year - FALL!  I love everything about it - the cooler weather, the changing leaves, pumpkins, cider, ...

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Totally Tots: Once Upon a Book ~ Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

Totally Tots: Once Upon a Book ~ Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!: Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner Summary : Complete with an "actual size" chart and "bug-o-meter" listing fun facts about each insect...

Totally Tots: Monster Sensory Bin ~ What's in the Tub?

Totally Tots: Monster Sensory Bin ~ What's in the Tub?: Here are a few Monster bin ideas for you and your tot to explore : What's included: Silly Monster Sti...

Learning for Life: Pay It Forward & Back

Learning for Life: Pay It Forward & Back: There has been a great activity doing the rounds among EC bloggers called 'Pay-It-Forward', the idea was that if you received a parcel from ...

Monday, October 1, 2012

SpeEdChange: Art and Invention Across the Curriculum

SpeEdChange: Art and Invention Across the Curriculum: Lights in the Night by Mark Carpenter and Dan Johnson It is ArtPrize time in Grand Rapids, Michigan and this past weekend was the Wor...

The Imagination Tree: Pre-reading and pre-writing Ideas from It's Playti...

The Imagination Tree: Pre-reading and pre-writing Ideas from It's Playti...: Today I've chosen to feature 5 fantastic ideas for encouraging early literacy skills, from pre-reading and writing activities to creative st...

The Imagination Tree: Super-Hero Writing Prompt!

The Imagination Tree: Super-Hero Writing Prompt!: Spark some exciting story writing using a superhero photo prompt to make a book together! We have been having lots of fun this past mon...