March 2010

Bright and colorful home made puzzles and games

March 31, 2010

Did you know that you have all the supplies you need to make bright and colorful games and puzzles for your preschoolers right in your own kitchen? Here are some ideas for you to try… Puzzles Don’t throw away the panels of your cereal boxes! Turn them into puzzles. Laminate them before cutting apart for [...]

Week of the Young Child

March 30, 2010

April 11 – 17th is the Week of the Young Child. This week is a chance to honor young children and to thank teachers who dedicate their time to the field of early childhood education. I have been asked for ideas quite often on my Facebook page but haven’t had a great deal of success [...]

Making fans with preschoolers in Indonesia

March 25, 2010

A Guest post from Rahma Dona CERIA Preschool at Palembang south Sumatra Indonesia Rahma sent these photos via Facebook and I asked her if I could share them here. What a wonderful thing to see what other children are doing in a country so far away from my own. Rahma writes: “Make Chiness fan idea [...]

Can your preschooler say “a, a, a”?

March 24, 2010

The mailbox brought me a little package several months ago and inside was the Amazing Alphabet Action CD and Book written by Esther Kehl. Along with the book was a little note from Vanessa Kerr who asked me take a listen and see what I thought. Vanessa indicated in her little note that her child [...]

Building positive relationships with preschool parents

March 23, 2010

An interview with Tom Hobson by Deborah J. Stewart Tell me about your preschool program and the ages you teach. We are a cooperative preschool with a play-based curriculum. I teach a class of 3-5 year olds and class of 2-year-olds. What is your background as it relates to early childhood and what is the [...]

Toddler lesson plan overview

March 20, 2010

A basic overview of toddler lesson plans!

Sponge Painting with toddlers and twos

March 19, 2010

Recently, I had a mother on Twitter ask me for ideas for art with toddlers and twos. More specifically she was asking for ideas of art that can be displayed or saved. Her request led me to write this post. I will address the specific request but first I need to share a few pointers [...]

The seed begins in the garden

March 18, 2010

I am in the final stages of finishing my first children’s song CD. This is a sample of what will be on the CD and almost what the songs will sound like with instrumental from Phillip Jacoby. This version hasn’t been “mastered” yet – do you like my professional musician lingo? I hope you enjoy [...]

Sing it again in preschool

March 17, 2010

A couple of days after presenting the ‘Simple Songs for Preschoolers’ workshop, I took the opportunity to visit one of the schools. The teachers didn’t know I was coming, I just dropped in. What a thrill it was to come into this class and find them trying out some of the new songs they had [...]

Simple songs for preschoolers

March 16, 2010

Last week I had the opportunity to present the music I have written with two groups of teachers. These two meetings were a good practice run for helping me to prepare for presenting the music at the Indiana State IAEYC conference in April. I came to the school early to make sure things were all set [...]

Creative teachers in preschool

March 15, 2010

When I get the chance, I love to go into one of our local preschools here and just admire all the art they display on their walls, ceilings, and windows. Last week I stopped in and here are some of the displays I enjoyed seeing. Many of them were just getting started so the children’s [...]

Simple flowers, caterpillars, and rainbows in preschool

March 14, 2010

I keep this product in my kitchen cabinet all the time and love it because of its special kind of adhesive ability to wrap up foods with an easy seal. I buy Glad Press’n Seal wrap from the local grocery store or Walmart. Pull out a length of the sealing wrap and set it out [...]

Sweet glue for creative art in preschool

March 13, 2010

Add some food coloring to corn syrup and you have a very sweet glue mixture! I took these photos at a local school I visited and noticed the blue bottle of corn syrup (made by adding food coloring). The children painted a little fish bowl cut out with the blue corn syrup. Then they added [...]

Simple, creative, and colorful tye dye for preschoolers

March 11, 2010

I have seen others make this type of activity on their blogs so when my nieces came over, I thought we should try it all out. What we discovered is that this activity (which we now call designer paper towels) is an idea that just keeps on keeping on. So here it goes:) Setting up [...]

Let’s talk about communication

March 8, 2010

My guest today is Marcy Fox. Marcy is a speech pathologist and one of our fellow bloggers that I really have enjoyed getting to know. We are all challenged to help young children develop their speech and language and Marcy has provided us with some very important information about this process below… Let’s Talk About Communication [...]

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