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A blog break give-away for the preschool classroom

While I am on my little blog break, I decided it would be a good time to go ahead and share this little give-away I have for you.

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Making ink stamps for the preschool classroom

Make your own foam block ink stamps for preschool.

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Measuring the short and long of it in preschool

During circle time, these children explored the concept of longer and shorter… The teacher selected two children at a time to go and select an object from the room and bring it back to the circle. The two objects were then placed side by side so the children could determine which was longer and which [...]

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We played fire station in preschool

We provided fire station activity boxes for our continuing study of community helpers. I shared the idea of making our own fire stations from a post I read at No Time for Flashcards… Along with the fire stations we set out some fire trucks and then added some waffle blocks to extend the play a [...]

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Billy Goats Gruff fairy tale and block play in preschool

Expand the story of The Billy Goats Gruff into the block center at your preschool!

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The block center came tumbling down

When I came into observe clean-up time, I happen to notice that the block center looked like this.. Oh my! But when I pulled out my camera to take a picture of the tumbling blocks, one little boy decided he wanted in on the action. So he began to stack the blocks. And then this [...]

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Preschoolers need time for block play

Blocks promote creativity A block center promotes a unique opportuntiy for preschoolers to be creative. Instead of creating with paint or paper, preschoolers use blocks to engage in the construction or creation of buildings, roads, farms, houses, towers, and walls. Blocks allow preschoolers to create in more than one dimension and the creativity is open-ended [...]

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