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The watermelon song and lightning bug song and a pumpkin song and a painting!

Starting off with a watermelon song and winding up with our very own songs and a little watermelon painting…

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A sunny day drawing cube game in Pre-K

A fun game that invites young children to spend time drawing!

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Exploring shapes and oil in preschool

Exploring shapes and the property of oil on paper in preschool…

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The art of music in preschool

Exploring the sounds of music in a most unusual way in our preschool classroom…

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How to draw your mother!

Giving a few pointers to my class of preschoolers on how to draw their mothers along with reading the book “The Dress I’ll Wear to the Party.”

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Magnifiers and bug drawings

Exploring the drawing process through magnifiers in our preschool classrom!

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Building block blueprints

Tracing and painting blocks to create a block blueprint in prek!

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Exploring Dr. Seuss stripes in preschool…

Counting and creating with our Dr. Seuss stripes in our prek classroom!

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Playing on the tabletop train station in preschool

We explored a little boxcar math and decorated our boxcars for our train station in preschool!

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Symmetrical line drawing and paint rubbing in pre-k

A fun way to explore symmetrical lines and painting with almost magical results!

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Mini-plexiglass easels for the preschool classroom

Mini-Plexiglass Easels are a terrific tool for inviting young children to color and write!

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Still life flower drawings in kindergarten

This is the final activity we did with our flower bouquets. You can see the other posts here > painting with flowers, a flower canvas, and cutting flower stems. I have also seen many different folks share about still life drawings which made me really want to give this a try with the kids… To get this [...]

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Exploring weather patterns in preschool

To extend the weather graphing experience over time, the children help to create a weather caterpillar… Each day, the children add a new circle to their weather caterpillar and discuss the patterns in the weather. As you can see below, the weather pattern is “rainy, rainy, cloudy, cloudy” (AABB)… In the younger classes, the teacher [...]

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Add the picture after you frame it up in preschool

Today, the kindergarten class tried out our new window markers…. Only we didn’t use them on the windows  - instead we used them on the glass cover of a picture frame… In some of the picture frames, we inserted pre-drawn shapes like circles or dots or even a house and the children drew over the [...]

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Providing preschoolers with structured and unstructured opportunities to write

Creating structured and unstructured opportunities to draw and write.

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