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Thanksgiving: Fun Friday features
Last week our fellow bloggers shared some awesome Thanksgiving activities in the Discover and Explore linky. Â Today I’m sharing four different ways to make “gratitude
End of the Rainbow Fruit Salad storybook giveaway
We are reviewing the book “End of the Rainbow Fruit Salad” and giving away one free copy so check it out!
Cooking in the classroom
Involve your kids in cooking for a wonderful multi-sensory experience! We recently spent a morning exploring different types of fruit. Â With that fruit, we created
Exploring and creating with sugar glass
Our pre-k class participated in exploring and creating beautiful designs and mosaics with sugar glass.
G is for [sugar] glass
Sugar glass looks and feels almost like real glass only it is made purely of sugar. I prepared several batches of sugar glass to take to preschool and explore.
Going on a looking walk
After reading “The Looking Book,” I gave each child their own pair of lookers to wear so we could head outdoors and take our own looking walk!
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
Investigating the parts of a spider through fine motor play
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.
Planning a Thanksgiving feast
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:
The itsy bitsy play about spiders in prek
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.
Itsy bitsy spider water play
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!
Making our own very busy spiders and spider webs
Spiders are quite common around our preschool and so we spent a little time reading about and making our own very busy spiders.