dramatic play
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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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Library play
We were supposed to walk to the library this morning as part of our celebration of the Week of the Young Child, but it rained all morning, so I did what every good preschool teacher would do, I improvised. I set up my classroom like a library and made each of my students library cards, and we all spent the morning at Ms. Erin’s School Library. It was hilarious. My kiddos spent the entire morning whispering to each other, just like they would at the real library. They sat on the floor and read with each other – ALL MORNING. I’m going to do this more often! It was really…
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It’s a birthday… everyday
To a preschooler there are two important days every year, Christmas, and their birthday. In our classroom we had two birthdays to celebrate right after Winter break, and ever since our class has been consumer with every thing birthdays. Even the children who don’t have a birthday for 6 more months are excitedly planning their own parties (and I do apologize to their parents)! It seemed only natural that we make this a tangible part of our classroom, so today we introduced birthday items into our dramatic play area. We included birthday plates, cups, and napkins, special ice cream bowls and an ice cream scoop, birthday candles, cupcake wrappers, gift…
