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From Pinterest to Real Life: Trying out Some Watercolor Leaves in Preschool
Despite the fact that our temperatures have been very warm here lately, we actually spotted a few fall-colored leaves on campus yesterday. The Little People seemed delighted to discover that this...
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Making Tree Art in Preschool
This week we're talking about trees in Preschool. Actually, it's been a two-week process, and this week we're really more focused on leaves. However, it's hard to talk about leaves without referring...
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From Pinterest to Real Life: Paper Bag Trees
Our Tree and Leaves unit sent me looking for some new art and learning ideas that I hadn't used before. And where did I look? Well, Pinterest of course. It was there that I saw this tree made out of...
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Small Gifts
I found these pieces of art in the classroom over the past two days, like small gifts. Each one made me smile as I discovered them: You have to love what the Little People can do with white board...
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Talking About Spiders in Preschool
This past week was "Spider Week" in our classroom. I feel like I always say this, but "Spiders" is really one of my favorite units. There are just so many fun things to do with spiders. We call them...
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Playdough Spiders
Toward the end of Spider week, we had a day where we needed a new activity at center time, so I got out the playdough. I had intended all week to make some purple playdough, which really makes no...
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The "Spiders Have Eight Legs" Educational Society
In general, I feel that one of the most beneficial things about the spider unit (at least to me) is all the practice we do counting to eight. This is of course because spiders have eight legs. It's...
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Paper Spiders in Preschool
Our Paper Spider project was a two-day project. The first day the Little People counted out and glued on the legs. The second day we let them loose with the glue sticks, paper eyes, and black...
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Thanksgiving Printables in the Classroom Store
Well, I have been away from the blog for a few days as I a)traveled on a ten-hour bus ride to help chaperon my elder son's band trip, and b)found out during the trip that the hard drive on my laptop...
View ArticleOverheard at School Today
Today as we were walking to the cafeteria, one of my Little People all of the sudden made an announcement: Little Person: My mom wants Obama to be the president. I said: Oh, so she's going to go and...
View ArticleSorting out the Laptop Files
Well, I was able to have a new hard drive installed in my laptop this week, and tonight I'm sitting and doing some file transferring/sorting/cleaning. Actually, I am finding this kind of enjoyable,...
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What're We're Talking About in Preschool This Week
This week in Preschool we're talking about Fall Harvest. Roughly translated this means that we are talking about Thanksgiving. We're making hand-print turkeys for our memory books, and we're...
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Making Stone Soup in Preschool
I've been catching up on making some class books the past few days. It seems like both October, November and December have a lot of activities that we like to make books out of. Plus, the Little...
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"Who Picked a Pumpkin?" Class Book
Here is another book that I just finished. It has pictures from our "Pumpkin Party" on Halloween. Since our field trip budget was completely cut this year and we could not visit the pumpkin patch, we...
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Christmas Items in the Teacher Stores
New in the teacher stores.... In the pack you will get the pdf files to print: Two 11"x 17" patterning cards for completing ABAB and ABCABC patterns: Decorated Christmas Tree Math/Playdough Mats in...
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Tasting Cranberry Sauce in Preschool
Are you buying any cranberry sauce this week for your Thanksgiving dinner? I have to admit that this is something that I usually would leave off my list if I were in charge of the Thanksgiving...
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A Sale in the Teacher Stores
Well, it seems that every store and website all around me is having a sale, so I decided to get in the spirit and join in. You can find all of the items in my stores on sale for five days - Saturday,...
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Gingerbread Printables
One of the new items in my Teacher Stores is my Gingerbread Printables. There are several fun items in this set which center around two basic Gingerbread Themes: One is a Gingerbread House Building...
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Five Little Snowmen Interactive Pocket Chart
Next week we're talking about "Seasons and Weather" with the Little People. This is a unit that I usually do in January, but we ended up with an "extra" week between Thanksgiving and Fall, so in went...
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Turkey Handprints
Over the Thanksgiving break I worked on putting together some of the Little People's memory book pages. Every year we put together this book as an end-of-the-year gift, with one page dedicated to each...
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Don't Throw Your Junk in My Backyard
As this week was the week we talked about the letter J, we did a lot of things with that letter. One of the things that we did was to learn a new song: "Don't Throw Your Junk in my Backyard" (because...
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A New Week In Preschool
It was a pretty good Monday in Preschool today, all things considered. We had kind of a crazy week last week with all of the rain and inside-ness, but we were able to go outside today. Everyone...
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Making Weather Charts in Preschool
Last week our theme was Seasons and Weather. Actually, it turned into more of a "Seasons and Weather" theme, because there was just a lot going on with that alone. Plus, the last time I tried to...
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Um, whatever happened to "This Spells Cat"?
Oh, the things those Little People say. Today we have the letter bears out, and one Little Person pulled me over to them excitedly. "Hey, look what I made" he said with pride. He showed me this line...
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I've Up and Moved
I have moved my blog to a new location. You can now find it at www.teachingthelittlepeople.com.
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