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Autumn Scented Play Dough (Version 1)
I love to make home-made play dough. I love the colors of store bought play dough, but 1 can just isn’t enough for the entire class, and it drives me nuts when the colors get mixed (I may be a bit OCD), my recipe makes a big batch, so everyone can use it at the same time. In the fall I always make scented play dough because I love fall scents. The recipe that I want to share with you today is for Apple Pie Play Dough (check back on Thursday for my Pumpkin Pie Play Dough Recipe!). I love this recipe because it doesn’t use a ton of salt…
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Autumn Bucket List
Here’s my list of all the things that I want to do this fall: What’s on your list?
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Friday Freebie – Football Season
I’m not a huge sports fan, but there is something about football season that I just cannot resist. I love the atmosphere of a football game, I love having the game on the television while I’m baking, and I love getting all decked out in my scarlet and gray on game day (Go Buckeyes!). Today’s Friday freebie is perfect for your classroom during football season. These football themed ten frames are from I is for Inspire (be sure to check out Jacqueline’s store, she has a ton of great preschool stuff!). I love this set because there is more to it than just the ten frames, she includes color word…
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Preschool Activities for Autumn
From Sweet Green House The weather around here lately has been screaming AUTUMN and I am loving it! Fall is my favorite time of the year (we’ve had this discussion before – boots, sweaters, pumpkin spice lattes, need I say more?!), and to celebrate, I wanted to share what’s in my Autumn activity bundle. Be sure to read all of the way through, I added a blog exclusive freebie for you too! The Autumn Math and Literacy Activity Bundle includes the following activities (all are also available separately): My Autumn Vocabulary Cards and Spelling Practice set includes the words acorn, apple, leaf, corn, leaves, pumpkin, tree, orchard, squirrel, and turkey. I…
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Activities that meet social emotional standards
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for some activities aligned to a specific standard. This is the second week of this feature, and we’re still on social emotional standards. (The Standards that I use every day, and am most comfortable with are Ohio’s Early Learning Development Standards – you can review them here, however I’ve found that even if your State’s standards differ, many of these activities can still be aligned similarly).Domain: Social Emotional DevelopmentStrand: SelfTopic: Self-ConceptCelebrating and recognizing what makes us all different and unique is something that we feel compelled to do at certain times throughout the year, especially near holidays that promote cultural diversity. For the youngest preschoolers, we…
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Change is a good thing
From Spokenly It took me a long time to feel this way, but after a year and a half of living my life in chaos and trying to be positive and see the silver lining ALL THE TIME, I think I actually get it. I’ve been a little down for the last couple of weeks, you see, this is the first year that I haven’t actually had my own class to welcome back to school. While I know that I’m doing exactly what I’m really meant to be doing, and I love that I get to spend so much time working on projects that I’m really passionate about, It does…
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Fine motor skills – folding paper pinwheels
Our school is going to be in a local parade in a couple of weeks, so during free play I’ve been working on a couple of projects for our float, today I was folding paper pinwheels, and the kids wanted to help. After a quick folding lesson, they were of, and they did amazingly well. This is a great activity for practicing fine motor skills, so I thought I’d share a quick tutorial. The key to making these with young children is to be accepting of imperfection, they can still work even if the accordion folds are not straight or even. 1. Start with a sheet of paper. We used…
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Friday Freebies
Four-day work weeks are always better aren’t they?! Happy Friday, it’s time for another weekend, and another freebie. Tonight we are doing a local family event for school, we’ll be having a photo both for children and family to take silly pictures, and I’m looking forward to helping build some really fun memories. I thought I’d share some of the free photo booth props that we’ll be using. Both of these sets are from Oh Happy Day. I also love to use them in the classroom. They are perfect for a number of different dramatic play scenarios, I’ve even set up dramatic play photo booths with old cameras so…
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Currently!
I’m linking up with Farley at Oh Boy Fourth Grade for September’s Currently! How do I forget about this every month?! At least this month’s is up earlier than August’s was. Listening: I might be obsessed with Pandora, I have about a million different stations, but my current favorites are Today’s Country and Pitch Perfect Soundtrack. Between Pandora radio and Amazon Prime instant video my ipad is permanently charging. Loving: Yay for PSL! This is just part of why I love love love autumn. I will mourn on the day that Starbucks introduces Christmas flavors. Thinking: We’ve been so busy lately that we haven’t been home for dinner much, at least not at…
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Activities that meet social emotional standards
I’m going to start something new here on my little blog, and I’m kind of excited about it! Every Wednesday I’ll focus on a different early learning standard and offer a number of activities that align with that standard. I hope that you’ll also add to my list so that we can all collaborate together. For the first eight weeks we’ll focus on Social Emotional Standards, so here we go;(The Standards that I use every day, and am most comfortable with are Ohio’s Early Learning Development Standards – you can review them here, however I’ve found that even if your State’s standards differ, many of these activities can still be…
