SuperScience Sunday! Frog Colors and Magnets! This week for sciencewe are learning about frogs.  We talkedabout Metamorphosis and explained the life cycle of the frog.  We acted out the life cycle of the frog afterI showed them the frog life cycle work tray. One of our students brought in a fabulous frog science set with realeggs, tadpoles, ...

Tell me a Story Tuesday! The Cat in the Hat! It is Dr. Seuss week!  Every day this week we will read a different story by Dr. Seuss and do activities to go along with that book.  Today we read The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat comes back! For art the first thing we made was Thing one or Thing two.  This was a fun activity because we also ...

Montessori Monday Math Madness Why and How? This week for Montessori Monday I decided to write about Montessori Math.  I wanted to tell you why I LOVE Montessori Math and how it works. Why? Let me start off by saying that I am TER I BLE at math!!  I just didn’t get it.  I am incredibly visual and kinesthetic and if you said to me what is the ...

President's Day ActivitiesThis week we are studying President's day and we are celebrating George Washington and Abraham Lincoln's Birthdays. We started out with the movie Getting to know Abraham Lincoln (click below for a preview) and a song we also did a movement activity where we started out small and grew taller and taller like Abe Lincoln.  ...

This week our Thematic Thursday post is about Dental Health!  It is so important for kids to learn at an early age how to take care of their teeth.  Developing good dental habits young will stay with kids for a lifetime.  Studies now show that poor dental health can lead to heart disease among other ailments and diseases.  Ok, sorry I sound like ...

Word Work Wednesday Part 2Valentine's Day WritingWe read this bookIn the book it talks about all of the reasons why Mouse likes his friends. We used that as a springboard discussion to play the warm fuzzy game. Each kid drew a name stick from the jar and wrote a nice thing about the person on the stick. Everyone closed their eyes and one at a time ...

Torn paper snowmen Today is fun Friday!  This week I decided to post some of our winter crafts and art projects.  I didn't post these before and they are so cute I didn't want them to get forgotten in my dusty picture files ;) Our art display line Our hand print tree and snowmen glyphs from (Deanna Jump) snowmen glyphs The kids do the ...

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If you are teaching the alphabet or teaching phonics, then you must check out these brand new Alphabet Songs music CDs. You can either download these songs from iTunes or Amazon, or buy the CDs right online. These Alphabet Songs teach kids about consonants, vowels, letter sounds, vocabulary words, and uppercase and lowercase handwriting ...

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