Science: Fun Friday features
Last week, the Discover and Explore team invited our blogging friends to share their best science activities. Â We received a wonderful response and would like
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Last week, the Discover and Explore team invited our blogging friends to share their best science activities. Â We received a wonderful response and would like
I have always wanted to try gelatin play and finally took the time to put it together using our own version of spider parts and it was totally worth it.
Inspiration for your Thanksgiving Day celebration! Every November, we celebrate Thanksgiving in our classroom in much the same way other classrooms around the country do:
Our Pre-K class explored the Itsy Bitsy Spider by making an itsy bitsy play. We began by talking about four key words in our song: spout, rain, sun, and spider.
We have been singing and reading about the Itsy Bitsy Spider and my oh my this is truly a fun song or rhyme to extend into some Itsy Bitsy waterplay!
Spiders are quite common around our preschool and so we spent a little time reading about and making our own very busy spiders.
Today’s explore and discovery linky is all about science! I can’t tell you how much we enjoyed this simple science process with bubbles and water color!
Last week, our Discover and Explore crew asked our fellow bloggers to link up their favorite posts about creating with natural materials. Â Today I am
Turn one of the trendiest new craft activities for kids: The Rainbow Loom into something educational too!
After gathering a set of leaves, the children explored the leaves by sorting them on our table chart and making leaf confetti!
After tapping and blowing on our book, we went over to the table to essentially retell our story by exploring our own Tap the Magic Tabletop Tree!.
Today I’d like to share an activity that we did with our pre-k students to extend our study of the tools scientists use and to encourage them to “think like a scientist.”
Today I’m sharing a few of my favorite posts that were linked up to our Discover and Explore dinosaur linky party. Â We had so many
We read the story “Meet Einstein” and then explored the tools of a scientist in our preschool classroom! A super fun filled day of scientific discovery!
We are sharing our collection of 11 wonderful ways to create with natural materials for our Discover and Explore linky.
The kinds of games we play with the felt board are not all that complicated and all I really need are just a few bight and colorful felt pieces and I have everyone’s attention.
To promote time with shape recognition and drawing, I transferred our salt into to boxes that come in different shapes.
There is something so simple yet rewarding about making paper plate pumpkins. I know, because I sat down with my class and made my own paper plate pumpkin and while making it, I realized that the process was relaxing, simple, creative, and fun…
Last week, on the Discover and Explore linky, we invited our fellow bloggers to share their favorite Halloween posts. Â A lot of really fun activities
This week our Discover and Explore team has chosen to share with you simple activities you can do to promote and talk about dinosaurs and fossils. As part of our dinosaur adventures, my students found this very interesting dinosaur nest sitting on the table in our outdoor classroom filled with dinosaur eggs.
We spent a week exploring dinosaurs all through out our centers. As part of the children’s exploration of dinosaurs, they spent lots of time playing in our dinosaur land which was located right inside our sand table…
While learning about the letter “P” we decided to explore with pizza! Pizza is an all-time favorite food for many preschoolers, and activities involving pizza
We want to share some ideas with you as you get ready to go back to school! As summer winds down and you prepare to
Cardboard yarn creations are a fun way to repurpose cardboard and build fine motor skills! This week, we decided to explore with yarn and enhance
Fourth of July is almost here! We have gathered some of our favorite ways to celebrate with young children. We love these ideas from fellow
Are your kids into bugs? We have some great ways to investigate bugs in your home or classroom. Our class really seems to be fascinated
Invitations to Draw are a wonderful way to spark creativity in young children! We are so excited to share with you the newest book by