tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86272517746355010842024-03-05T00:04:51.919-05:00Two Much FunA glimpse into the life of twin preschoolers.Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-70320063005616091072015-06-27T12:21:00.001-04:002015-06-27T12:21:08.519-04:00Summer Math Fun! Beach Bump (Math Center Game)<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(5 Years)</i></div>
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Have you ever played Bump? I've not only never played it, I have never even <i>heard</i> of Bump before. It's <b>so</b> much fun. We just played our first game of Bump and they <u>loved</u> it! You can grab the template for <i>FREE</i> by going to <a href="http://www.guided-math.com/2012/07/free-game-friday-featuring-bump.html#comment-form" target="_blank">Mary's Guided Math blog</a>, she linked it from Denise at SunnyDays. <br />
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The directions are on the templates for you- the object is to be the first player to have ten spaces with your marker/game piece on top. Your opponent can BUMP you from a space, by placing her game piece on top of yours (there is a maximum of one bump per space). <br />
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Our game lasted for about ten minutes - that's ten minutes of math practice with no workbooks, no pencils, no mention of "work". I brought out the abacus just in case they wanted to use that to calculate the sum. They chose to rely on the facts that they already memorized, or by counting the dots or by using their fingers. <br />
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They picked up on the concept of the game really quickly. Little Miss always seemed to want to BUMP her brother from a space, rather than taking an open space (my little smarty pants). Once Wild One caught onto his sister's strategy, he started to do the same thing. Twins! Anyway, they really liked the back and forth- who's going to win. They are very competitive.<br />
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Towards the end of the game, when we only had two more spaces to go, Wild One started getting antsy. He hung in there to finish the game, but I knew we needed to end this soon or else they wouldn't want to play again. Keep it fun, remember learning through play is the best way (well, for us).<br />
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It was a close game 10 points to 8 points. Their review of the game:<br />
Little Miss - "I really liked the bumping part."<br />
Wild One - "It was amazing that my sister won."<br />
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Thank you Denise and Mary for sharing this with us! We are going to add this to our centers for the summer. We used your blank template to create a Bump game board using word form for the next time we play. Thank you again!Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-79376073494758028602014-09-25T11:53:00.002-04:002014-09-25T11:53:45.149-04:00Banana Bread Granola - Kids in the Kitchen<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 1/2 Years)</i></div>
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Do you like granola? Little Miss <i>loves </i>crunchies (granola) in her yogurt and on the side of her yogurt. Since Wild One and Little Miss love cooking, I thought granola would be a fun baking project for us AND who doesn't absolutely l-o-v-e banana bread?<br />
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If you haven't baked anything with your little one(s), this granola is <i>a terrific</i> one to begin with. The measurements are <b>very </b>forgiving, especially with a little one doing the measuring. I found the recipe on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/theresa787/yummy-healthy-breakfast-and-brunch/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, it's from <a href="http://minimalistbaker.com/banana-bread-granola/" target="_blank">The Minimalist Baker</a>. I love their recipes, they are one of my favorite sites to find something delicious and nutritious. <br />
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This Banana Bread Granola is as good as it sounds. It's fantastic! It's already almost gone (do you see the jar in the background- we only made this last week). We'll be baking up another batch in a few days. <br />
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<b>Banana Bread Granola</b><br />
1 medium ripe banana (about 1/2 cup)<br />
3 cups rolled oats (Gluten-free is fine)<br />
3/4 cup walnuts, chopped<br />
1/2 cup pecans, chopped<br />
3 Tbsp raw sugar<br />
1 Tbsp flax seed, I used ground<br />
1/2 Tbsp cinnamon<br />
1/2 tsp salt<br />
1/4 cup coconut oil<br />
1/3 cup + 1 Tbsp honey or maple syrup<br />
1 tsp pure vanilla extract<br />
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Measure and pour the rolled oats into a large bowl.</div>
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This is also a great time to practice leveling off dry ingredients- we usually use the back of a butter knife, but Wild One wanted to use his fingers like The Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten (one of his favorite chefs).<br />
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Measure and pour in the chopped walnuts.<br />
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We must sample the ingredients. He said that on Master Chef, Chef Gordon tries the cooks's food as they are still cooking.<br />
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Measure and add in the chopped pecans.<br />
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Now add in the raw sugar.<br />
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Sprinkle in the flax seed and salt.<br />
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Mix well with a wooden spoon that can also be used as a drum stick (thank you again Aunt Jeanine and Uncle Keith).<br />
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In a small sauce pan, melt the coconut oil and then add the honey. Add the bananas off the heat and mash.<br />
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Pour the wet ingredients on top of the dry and mix well.<br />
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Spread the mixture evenly on a rimmed baking half-sheet, or jelly roll pan. Bake for about 25 minutes.<br />
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1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.<br />
2. Mix the oats, nuts, sugar, flax seed,cinnamon and salt in a large bowl.<br />
3. In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, melt the coconut oil. Add in the honey or maple syrup and vanilla. Stir until completely incorporated. Add in mashed banana, mix well.<br />
4. Pour wet ingredients on top of dry ingredients, mix well.<br />
5. Spread onto a half-sheet jelly roll (or baking sheet). Try to flatten into an even layer.<br />
6. Bake for 23-28 minutes or until golden brown.<br />
7. If you like it in a bunch of tiny pieces, break it up with a spatula as soon as it comes out of the oven. Leave on the baking sheet to cool. If you like it clumpy (like Little Miss and I do) barely break it up with a spatula. If yolike it in a bunch of tiny pieces, break it up with a spatula as soon as it comes out of the oven.<br />
8. Store in a glass jar for up to three weeks.Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-3263919485364298562014-09-24T14:15:00.002-04:002014-09-24T14:15:26.810-04:00Healthy Chunky Monkey Breakfast Cookies- Kids in the Kitchen<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 1/2 Years)</i></div>
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We love baking together. The measuring, pouring, mixing, mashing, tasting. We are in the kitchen baking something at least every other day, and there are weeks - especially during the rainy season and Christmas season when we are baking every day. <br />
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One of our favorite breakfasts and afternoon snacks is this cookie from <a href="http://happyhealthymama.com/2012/02/no-sugar-banana-peanut-butter-crunchies.html" target="_blank">Maryea at Happy Healthy Mama</a>. You've seen this on <a href="http://two-much-fun.blogspot.com/2014/07/guilt-free-chocolate-peanut-butter.html" target="_blank">here before</a>. We started making her recipe (ok, we adapted it slightly) since they were two years old!<br />
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<b>Chunky Monkey Breakfast Cookies aka Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Bites</b><br />
4 ripe small bananas, about 1 1/3 cups, mashed<br />
2 cups gluten-free oats or regular rolled oats (also called old fashioned oats)<br />
*1/3 cup peanut butter - we use <i>Skippy Natural Dark Chocolate or whatever we have on hand</i><br />
1 tsp pure vanilla extract<br />
1 cup pitted dates, chopped small<br />
*2/3 cup of chopped nuts, we usually use walnuts and pecans<br />
*1/3 cup of unsweetened shredded coconut<br />
*1/4 cup of dark chocolate chips or vegan chocolate chips<br />
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Mix everything together in a large bowl. Let sit for about 15 minutes. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Drop the mixture using tablespoon portions on a silpat or parchment lined baking tray, press down slightly to look like a cookie, or leave rolled into a ball (these will not spread). Bake for 15 minutes or until tops are golden. That's it!<br />
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Look at how speckled our bananas are. Those are perfect for baking! Mash those bananas- forget the fork, when you make banana bread <i>and</i> banana muffins <i>and</i> banana pancakes as often as we do, we use a potato masher. It's faster and easier.<br />
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Look at that smile! He loves squishing and mashing the bananas.<br />
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Add in your rolled oats and walnuts.<br />
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Pour in the pecans and peanut butter.<br />
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Add in the chopped dates, unsweetened coconut and bittersweet chocolate chips.<br />
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Add the vanilla. Mix well. Allow to rest for 15 minutes. This is when I start preheating my oven. <br />
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<i>(4 1/2 Years)</i></div>
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We love playing games, board games, running games, cards games. We love them all! While searching for fun carnival-style games for our school's Fall Festival, I saw a knock down game made with painted coffee cans. They were so adorable, but also very time consuming, plus I don't have ten coffee cans just lying around. <br />
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Hmmmm.... I know, <b>I'll use orange Solo cups!</b> They are perfect for this project. Inexpensive. Stackable. Easy to decorate. Easy to store. Heck, they are even recyclable! Sold!<br />
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<i>Materials Needed:</i><br />
Orange Solo Cups - we used ten<br />
Black Sharpies<br />
Pin pong ball or a wadded up paper lunch bag<br />
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Wild One and Little Miss wanted to help- yes, you can practice writing and strengthen your fine motor skills. <br />
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This only took about twenty minutes to create our ten scary faces. Then it was time to PLAY! First Little Miss stacked the cups.<br />
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And... then Wild One knocked them down!</div>
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So much fun! Oh and we're learning. We're carefully building and using fine motor skills. We're using critical thinking and spatial reasoning skills. We're using hand-eye coordination and gross motor skills. More importantly we're having fun!Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-50363705466360929782014-09-23T16:45:00.000-04:002014-09-23T16:45:01.609-04:00Easy Frankenstein Decorations<div style="text-align: center;">
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Wild One asked that we decorate for Halloween during <i>Labor Day</i>- LABOR DAY- weekend! That's right, early September and we are decorating for Halloween. They were so excited when I told them that we could start putting up all of their decorations, I wish I had it on film. They are hilarious!<br />
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Well, after we put up all of our decorations, I realized- I don't have a lot of Halloween decorations. Which is just fine, because the next question from Wild One was to make new decorations. It's time to open up <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/theresa787/kiddie-halloween-and-fall-festival/" target="_blank">my Pinterest board</a> and search. As soon as Wild One saw the Frankenstein decorations, from <a href="http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2009/10/frankenstein-craft.html" target="_blank">Allison at No Time for Flashcards</a>, his decision was made. </div>
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We save our cardboard tubes (paper towel and toilet paper rolls) for projects. I'm so glad we had a bunch on hand, because these little guys are so much fun to make and are a perfect project for this age. </div>
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Cardboard tubes (toilet paper or paper towel rolls)</div>
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Draw a black line around the tube, about a third of the way down the tube. This will be the guide for their Frankenstein's hair. Let the kids color in the hair.</div>
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Use the green dot markers to color in the rest.<br />
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Make tiny slits in the hair with scissors.<br />
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I punctured holes for the bolts (golf tees), and then let them push the tees through the pre-made holes.<br />
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Little Miss decided her Frankenstein needed a white puffy skirt. <br />
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Yesterday we began working on our homework packet. One of the suggested activities was the following page. The child practices writing her name, reading the sentence, cutting out the individual words, pasting the words in order, and then writing (or attempting to write) the entire sentence. Little Miss loves these types of activities. She began working right away.</div>
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Wild One loves using his scissors, so I knew he'd work on the first few parts of this activity. He quickly wrote his name, read the sentence (with help- <i>play</i> and <i>park</i> were new words for the both of them), began cutting out the words and pasting them in order.</div>
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Little Miss made several glue stick circles, and then pasted each word down in order. Wild One glued one word down at a time.<br />
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Next came the writing. We have spent a lot of time practicing uppercase letters. When Little Miss saw that the sentence contained lowercase letters, I reminded her that she can either try to write the letters in lowercase or write all the letters in uppercase. She said, "I don't know how to write lowercase letters real good, but I want to try to copy the letters." How cute! She did a great job!<br />
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Wild One was able to write his name, read the sentence, cut the strips, paste them in order and he started writing, but then drew a straight line across his sentence. He said he didn't know how to write the lowercase letters, and I think he became a bit frustrated. I quickly grabbed the magic wand and he went back to the <i>-op family</i>. I know we need to work on maintaining his discipline, especially when it comes to standard bookwork and worksheets. We'll get there. Meanwhile, it's time to have more fun!</div>
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Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-27310705793832608772014-09-03T11:30:00.000-04:002014-09-03T11:30:00.149-04:00Hocus Pocus - Making -op Words (with a free printable)<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 1/2 Years)</i></div>
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We are just beginning week three of pre-K (long, deep sigh). Our incredible teachers informed us that they are now going to be delving into their curricula this week, and with that is HOMEWORK! I've never been so happy to hear that homework is coming. We can now get back to learning through play, while incorporating what they are learning in the classroom. <br />
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My inner-teacher came bounding out when I printed out the homework packet (all of their homework is optional, but encouraged). A few of the worksheets were about the CVC -<i> op </i>family. I love word families- there are so many cute, playful activities we can do. I knew right away we'd use our magic wands that we just got at The Dollar Tree this summer! They love playing with them. I set out Wild One's magician shirt and a fairy Godmother gown for Little Miss - and then we sat down ready to preform our magic.<br />
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Wild One and Little Miss had fun waving the wand and saying, "hocus pocus" or "bippity boppity boo" while creating new words. I loved how surprised they were that they could turn the letter "b" into "bop" by waving the wand and placing it after the "b". The smiles say it all! <br />
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Are you ready to play? You don't need a magic wand. You can use a craft stick, a pencil or even a spoon. Below is the link to<b> the free printable</b>, when you click on the picture you will be able to download the activity sheet. Don't you love when most of the work is done for you?<br />
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Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-25855435062977789892014-08-22T07:00:00.000-04:002014-08-22T07:00:06.878-04:00Fast and Healthy Bento Lunches<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 1/2 Years)</i></div>
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I love all of the bento school lunches that I'm seeing displayed across Pinterest, they are so adorable! For the past month or so, I've collected some fun and healthy ideas for when my Little Miss and Wild One go off to school (<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/theresa787/yummy-healthy-school-snacks-bento-boxes/" target="_blank">here are my favorites</a>). There are some really elaborate bento boxes out there, with cutesy picks, cutters in every shape and size, portioners inside portioners, PLUS the lunch boxes themselves!<br />
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Yeah... so... my style is cute <i>and simple</i>. I wanted to find a quick and easy (and relatively inexpensive- you should see the prices on some of those fancy bento boxes) way to prepare bento-style lunches for my kidabunks.<br />
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First the box (well, bag). The kids picked out their own insulated lunch bags.<br />
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We now need containers. We purchased two types:<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KESHK56/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00KESHK56&linkCode=as2&tag=twmufu-20&linkId=DROIT6DHN5FXPEAI%22%3E%3Cimg%20border=%220%22%20src=%22http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00KESHK56&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=twmufu-20%22%20%3E%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=twmufu-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00KESHK56%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank">Ziplock Divider Containers</a><br />
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We also bought:<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00COWLXJ4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00COWLXJ4&linkCode=as2&tag=twmufu-20&linkId=2UT3ZVVGQ6LN2B5L%22%3E%3Cimg%20border=%220%22%20src=%22http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00COWLXJ4&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=twmufu-20%22%20%3E%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=twmufu-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00COWLXJ4%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank">Silicone Muffin Cups</a> - these are fantastic for instant portioning, AND I've been using them when we bake muffins and we have just enough batter left over to bake another one or two muffins. Why does that happen? Shouldn't a recipe for a dozen muffins make a dozen muffins? <br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ET5YRU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001ET5YRU&linkCode=as2&tag=twmufu-20&linkId=TJD7G6D4JVOPJLCS%22%3E%3Cimg%20border=%220%22%20src=%22http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B001ET5YRU&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=twmufu-20%22%20%3E%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=twmufu-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001ET5YRU%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank">Star Cookie Cutters</a>- perfect for our bento-style lunches <i>and</i> for Christmas stars<br />
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We already had left-over Snow White cupcake liners and picks from their last birthday. Plus we make our own picks using toothpicks and stickers- easy peasy. <br />
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Now comes the fun part. Choosing delicious and healthy ingredients, and turning them into something that looks fun. We stocked up on high water content fruit: strawberries, blueberries, grapes, apples and mandarin oranges. My plan is to fill their lunch boxes with the following:<br />
lean protein<br />
high water content fruit (they may not drink as much water at school as they do at home)<br />
whole grains<br />
and eventually vegetables (Little Miss isn't a fan, but we keep trying)<br />
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Here is what we have created so far:<br />
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Red and Green Seedless Grapes, Blueberry Coconut Muffins, Clementine Slices, Chocolate Cheerios</div>
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LEFT- Star Sandwiches (whole wheat bread and roast beef), Cheddar Stars, Clementine, Sliced Strawberries, Mickey Mouse imprinted Wheat Bread (Little Miss made this one- isn't it adorable?)</div>
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Sandwich, Grape Tomatoes, Turkey and Ham roll-ups, Banana and Chocolate Cheerios (someone stole the chocolate Cheerios while I was getting ready to take the picture)</div>
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<b>The Verdict?</b> <i>Little Miss and Wild One love these!</i> In fact, it's one of their favorite parts of their school day! Seriously, it's been on their top three favorite parts of their day (it's been number one for Little Miss all three days). They love the surprise of what it's going to be, and what it will look like. I love that they are eating a delicious and healthy lunch. </div>
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I loved this past year of homeschool preschool. We had so much fun learning and playing, playing while learning, and learning through play. We filled our days with guided learning, laughter, invitations to "work", creative art projects that led to paint getting every-where, calendar time, using imaginative play for critical thinking in science and in guided reading, engaging math skills, playful ways to learn our magic (sight) words, practicing writing using mazes, colored shaving foam, rainbow salt, glue, stickers, play dough, and yes markers and crayons. I loved this past year. <br />
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Little Miss and Wild One have been looking forward to going to school with other children their age, for awhile now. Wild One was ready before we started homeschool preschool and Little Miss started warming up to the idea of going to a school around May. For the longest time she kept reinforcing her stance of,"I'm not leaving you Mommy. I'm staying here to go to school." <br />
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Fast forward to this past week, and we're in pre-k. When the months turned into weeks leading up to pre-k, my heart began aching. I don't want them to go. I want to keep them home with me. I'll continue to plan fun and engaging activities that will encourage them to learn. They will succeed, they will have fun, they will be with ME! <br />
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Well, I was overruled by everyone. Everyone. Not one person sided with me on keeping them home. Not one. In fact, everyone was very vocal about why they thought they should go to a school. I knew I lost the battle when my little man said that he wanted to go to school to be with all of his cousin and friends (even though we have discussed numerous times that his friends and cousins go to different schools are in different grades). <br />
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I had a feeling I was going to lose the homeschooling battle, so I did my homework and found the perfect placement. It's a small school, with a focused curriculum built upon the love of reading. Perfect! To our great surprise, one of the amazing teachers that I used to work with is not only on the VPK team, she will be one of our teachers AND one of the sweetest primary teachers that I ever met is now at their school in one of the preschool classrooms (right outside my kids' classroom door). To help get Little Miss and Wild One excited about school (and me too as well), I created this countdown calendar. It worked magic! Maybe it was the glitter, or the Cat in the Hat cards, or being the one who gets to move the school apple down to the next day. <br />
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<b>So... how did they do? </b>They love school. They love their teachers. They love their classroom. They love being able to play with the same kids every day. They love their special lunches (more on that in the next post). Am I happy that they are now in school (9:00-1:00)? I've accepted it. I'm happy that they are having fun. I miss our homeschool preschool days. They went by too fast. I'm looking forward to this year though, especially since we have two fantastic teachers, with an owner dedicated to devising a specific curriculum that fosters learning in a small group setting.<br />
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<b>Flashback to Homeschool Preschool (2013)</b></div>
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<b>and now onto Pre-K (2014)</b></div>
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Both Little Miss and Wild One have a favorite show- <i><u>Master Chef Jr.</u></i> They love </div>
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Wild One will often mimic Chef Ramsey during bedtime and say, "One of you (referring </div>
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(4 1/2 Years)</div>
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Last Christmas, Bella (our Elf on the Shelf) gave Little Miss and Wild One a going away present. It was a three-month gift to <a href="http://www.kiwicrate.com/Refer?i=EmilyandTommyM" target="_blank">Kiwi Crate</a>. These little gift box gems are PERFECT for those times when you want (or need- you know those times) a project that they can work on semi-independently. Today was the day; we painted, we built, we played with the kinetic sand, we made the volcano erupt- again, and it was only 10:30! Out came the kit with everything in it. I handed the kids their bottles, and colored stickers, and let them have fun decorating.</div>
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created rows of the same color, making sure to space them apart ever so slightly. Twins.</div>
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I love how proud she is of her work!</div>
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I helped them attach the straw, wings and feet. They added the goggly eyes.</div>
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Time to make them fly.</div>
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Experimenting the differing rates of speed if the string is held at a steeper decline. </div>
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Our latest "toy" is our Rainbow Swirl Salt Tray. It's so much fun to play with. It's very relaxing, it's almost mesmerizing. Plus it took less than ten minutes to put together, and that's with two 4 1/2 year olds working on it! Oh, and you most likely have everything in your home already.<br />
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My husband was going to toss a wooden box with a lock on it, but lucky for me he asked if I wanted it for something. I knew right away, it would be used for a salt tray. I've been putting off creating a salt tray, because... because... hmmmm. Well, now we have a tray and it's time to add the colored salt- so much more fun than plain white salt. <br />
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Have you dyed salt before? Here, let Little Miss and Wild One show you how.<br />
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<i>Materials Needed:</i><br />
1/3 cup measuring cup (optional- but I like having equal measurements of everything)<br />
table salt (we buy whichever is on sale to use in our crafts)<br />
artificial food dye or liquid water color<br />
bowls<br />
fork or spoon<br />
tray(s) to help contain the inevitable mess (baking sheets and cake pans work well also)<br />
tray with a lid (they sell salt trays, but a plastic take out container works well also)<br />
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knife (it's great practice for leveling off flour for your baking projects)</div>
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Pour the measured salt into a small bowl. Add three drops of food coloring to the bowl.</div>
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Practice writing letters or drawing faces or swirling.</div>
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for writing, or practicing writing. Learning through play.</div>
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This project is quick to put together, the kids love it and you probably already have everything in the house! Look at that SMILE!</div>
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A few weeks ago we played with paper mache for the first time. We made these craft bowls to hold our crayons, markers, scissors and glue sticks. They are surprisingly sturdy. <br />
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I was going to have them help me create a paper mache volcano, but I think that maybe overreaching. The bowls took a lot of dexterity, mainly from squeegeeing the paper and flour mixture through their fingers. I had visions of Little Miss and Wild One eagerly beginning the project and then their interest go from waning to ending within ten minutes, I'd then be the one working on this project.<br />
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Instead, we created a homemade play dough volcano. I found my inspiration on Pinterest, it's from Ashley West at <a href="http://www.education.com/activity/article/volcano-erupts/">Education.com</a>. <br />
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A tray with sides (we bought ours at The Dollar Tree)<br />
A plastic water bottle or a small thin flower vase<br />
Playdough (we used some of our old homemade play dough, this stuff stays soft for months- we used the brown play dough from Thanksgiving 2013! <a href="http://two-much-fun.blogspot.com/2013/05/homemade-rainbow-play-dough-faster-than.html" target="_blank">Here 's the recipe</a>.)<br />
Baking soda - 1 Tablespoon<br />
Red food coloring - 3 drops<br />
Dish soap - 3 drops<br />
Vinegar - 1/4 cup (a Pyrex measuring cup makes pouring easy)<br />
Dinosaurs (not essential, but the kids thought it was hilarious that they were getting buried by the lava- hmmm, I'll have to look into that dark side later)<br />
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While the kids were busy creating pink Olaf snowmen and smashing rolled play dough letters (can you guess who was doing what?), I started placing the play dough around the water bottle, on top of the tray. Wild One began helping, asking if he can put the dinosaurs next to the volcano. Building a volcano out of play dough t<i>akes less than five minutes</i>, it takes longer than that just to prepare to build a paper mache volcano. <br />
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Once we were all satisfied with our little volcano and dinosaurs. We began adding the ingredients for our lava. <br />
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After Little Miss saw how much fun her brother had, she decided that she wanted a turn at pouring in the vinegar. Take two!<br />
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While I was cleaning up our experiment (all I did was pour out the vinegar solution from the tray, and now we can do this again another day), the kidabunks took out their crayons and science journals and began drawing what we did, "Just like <u>Sid the Science Kid</u> Mom!"<br />
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Quick, easy, engaging, most of all fun! Learning through play is really the best way!<br />
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UPDATE 8/13/14<br />
We have now recreated this experiment four times! The dinosaurs are actually stuck in the "lava" (the dried play dough). Each time we do this, they are still amazed at how quickly the baking soda reacts with the vinegar. They have experimented with adding extra baking soda, pouring the vinegar fast vs slow, adding baking soda to the outside of the volcano as well as the inside of the volcano. They discuss their hypotheses before we do the experiment, and then the result of the actual reaction. I love how much fun homeschool preschool is!Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-50616765628646451192014-07-21T07:00:00.000-04:002014-07-21T07:00:01.769-04:00Watercolor Letter Art<div style="text-align: center;">
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Is it too hot or too wet to go outside? Are you looking for a calming project? This one would be perfect! Watercolor Letter Art<br />
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Watercolor paper<br />
Watercolor paint<br />
Thin paintbrushes<br />
Marker<br />
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The project itself was very simple to set up. I drew a large block letter in marker on watercolor paper, and then inside the block letter drew squares and rectangles in pen. My plan was for them to carefully paint inside the lines (something we have never worked on) <b>and</b> to remember to choose a different neighboring color when painting. I wasn't sure how this project was going to go. Were they going to want to work on it? Will they like it? <br />
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I showed them the model that I made. We discussed how I must have had to carefully paint to stay within the lines. We talked about how the same color isn't repeated in an adjacent box. I asked if they wanted to create their own, and to my surprise they did!<br />
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Little Miss methodically chose the colors according to their placement in the watercolor tray to make sure that she didn't choose the same color twice (brilliant!). Wild One chose randomly (that's how I did it too). <br />
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Look at them practicing for writing! They are trying to control where the paint goes, just like when printing (you need that fine motor control).<br />
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Calming, quiet work. Concentrating on staying within the lines and not using the same color in an adjacent spot. Practicing for writing. Enjoying color mixing and painting. Creating beautiful art.</div>
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Happy Monday!Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-80486577431273721992014-07-17T14:04:00.003-04:002014-07-18T13:13:53.875-04:00Preschool Paper Mache<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 Years)</i><br />
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Paper mache! It screams childhood. Ripping paper. Mixing flour and water. Putting your hands in a goopy solution. Painting the dried creation. Fun! <b>Making a paper mache project is a great way to work on so many skills at once, in a playful way of course</b>: <i>ripping in strips (it's harder than it looks for a four-year old), following directions, hand-eye coordination, measuring, pouring, mixing, transferring, using a paint brush (great practice for writing with a pencil), color mixing, and of course developing those fine motor skills.</i></div>
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They liked the fact that they got to rip paper. We haven't ripped paper (other than wrapping paper) in a long time. <br />
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Look at that smile! That's right my little one, rip the paper, develop your pincer grip to prepare you for writing.<br />
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Measuring the flour and pouring in the water. We used a 1:1 ratio. We also added in a teaspoon of salt, it's supposed to make the mixture resistant to mold- at least that's what I was told in school.</div>
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I wrapped a small glass bowl in plastic cling wrap. Turned it over and modeled how to dip in the strip of paper, squeeze it out between two fingers and then place and smooth the strip down on the bowl, and they were off! </div>
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Little Miss found a short strip of paper to begin with, she loves tiny things.</div>
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Ta da! On the left is the one Little Miss created, on the right is Wild One's. There was about three coats of strips on their bowls. Let them air dry for two days.</div>
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Little Miss was stunned that the paper hardened into a bowl. She <b>loves </b>painting. <i> If you don't want to see any of the newsprint, I'd recommend spray painting the bowl a base color first. </i><br />
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At first Wild One didn't want to paint. He changed his mind a few minutes later.</div>
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She is painting the rim of her bowl a contrasting color.</div>
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Wild One is excited because he created gray. </div>
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He's holding his paint brush like a magic wand.</div>
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We let our painted bowls dry and then I sprayed them with a clear coat of spray paint. Now we have beautiful handmade catch-alls to hold some of most-used art supplies. They are remarkably sturdy. I thought we would have to be careful with these, but they dry into a pretty rigid bowl.</div>
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When they saw how beautiful they turned out, they asked to do this again. Yay! </div>
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Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-77978410720084670662014-07-16T15:33:00.002-04:002014-07-16T15:37:32.042-04:00Rainbow Snowballs<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 Years)</i></div>
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This is so much fun!!! Have you seen what happens to a bar of Ivory soap when you put it in the microwave? We've been watching <i>Sid the Science Kid</i>, and Little Miss and Wild One love the science journals that Sid and his classmates use. "We can do that." I tell them. Little Miss, sadly says that we can't because we don't know how to write a lot of words. I rewind and freeze the movie, on the part where Teacher Suzie has the class write (draw) in their science journals. Wild One shouts, "Look it's all drawings! No words!" Little Miss smiled and cheered, "We can do it! We can do it!" Prep for this is quick- if you have Ivory in the house, I knew we would do this one day, so I already purchased two bars at The Dollar Store, I love The Dollar Store.<br />
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<i>Materials needed:</i><br />
Ivory soap (we cut ours in half)<br />
Microwave-safe plate<br />
Trays or baking sheets (to help contain the mess)<br />
Liquid food dye or liquid water color<br />
Ice cube tray or water color palate<br />
Medicine droppers or pipettes<br />
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I've seen the Ivory Experiments all over the internet. However, I found this great journal idea on <a href="http://www.5orangepotatoes.com/blog/2009/09/30/ivory-soap-experiment-ptoe-oxygen/">5 Orange Potatoes</a> (she even has a free booklet that you can download). I made a modified one for us, you can grab it here.<br />
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They were so excited that they were writing a journal entry, just like on <i>Sid the Science Kid</i>. When I asked, if they thought the bar will stay the same or change. They both said, "Change!" Little Miss said, "It will melt"; Wild One chimed in with a "Yeah, melt."<br />
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We cut our bar in half, because I've seen how large this thing will swell. We placed it on a dinner plate (microwave-safe). Pressed two minutes on the microwave and stood back. The first ten seconds, nothing happened. They looked at me with disappointment in their eyes,<br />
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Once it starts expanding, it grows pretty quickly. We stopped ours around 45 seconds. <br />
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"I can't watch. It's too exciting!"</div>
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Wild One was hopping up and down so much, saying, "Look! Look!" </div>
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That's a <b>full-size dinner plate</b>, with only<i> half </i>a bar of Ivory on it! </div>
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It sadly also deflates, just a little, as soon as you stop the microwave.</div>
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They drew a picture of what the soap looks like after it came out of the microwave. </div>
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Once cooled off (it only took a few minutes for ours to cool off), I asked if they thought it will be hard or soft. They both said soft. It looks soft, just like shaving cream. They were surprised to feel that it was hard. We used some old medicine syringes to add just a little water at a time to the soap to shape it into mini snowballs.</div>
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Little Miss wondered out loud (I'm constantly thinking out loud - it's amazing how things I did in the classroom I'm still doing today) what would happen if we used a bowl of water instead of just the medicines (the syringes). You know what would happen, I knew what would happen, but for her it's a learning opportunity, so break out the plastic bowls.</div>
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Her next wondering question that she asked with so much excitement, "What if we use seltzer water?" I asked her what she thought might happen. "It will get bubbly, because there are bubbles in seltzer water." Ok, I see that. Again, you know what will happen and I knew what would happen. It is another learning opportunity, so off I go to get her seltzer in a bowl.</div>
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While the kids washed their hands - no soap needed. I put a drop of liquid food dye into the well of the pallet, added some water, stirred carefully. By the time the kids were done washing their hands the next part of the project was ready. Now to make our snowballs into <b>rainbow snowballs</b>.<br />
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These little medicine droppers are great for developing fine motor skills.</div>
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Now we have pretty little rainbow snowballs to play with in the bathtub.</div>
Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-89110524631700576602014-07-10T14:01:00.000-04:002014-07-10T14:01:25.732-04:00Magic Water Colors<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 Years)</i></div>
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I found this next art project on Pinterest from <a href="http://oneperfectdayblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/kids-art-raised-salt-painting/">One Perfect Day</a>. I knew Little Miss and Wild One would have fun with it, because it involves glue - they love playing with glue.<br />
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Glue - we used white school glue<br />
Table Salt<br />
Liquid Water Color - or liquid food dye<br />
Ice Tray - we wanted vibrant color so we did 1:1 ratio of liquid water color:water<br />
Medicine Droppers or Pipettes<br />
Heavy Construction Paper<br />
Tray - or a baking sheet/jelly roll pan (so that the salt doesn't go EVERYWHERE)<br />
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I invited the kids over with, "Do you want to do magic?" Two seats were quickly filled, with skreeches of, "I do! I do! I do!" <br />
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I told them that today they were going to make color creep across a magical path. They were so excited! Start by having the kids swirl around the glue across the paper. <br />
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Completely cover the paper with salt. Aren't you glad that you used a tray? Let sit for just a few seconds, which is the perfect amount of time for your little ones to say a magical spell. Then pour off the salt into a container to be used another time, or for us- since we do everything in twos, pour it onto the next artwork. <br />
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Now, the magic begins. Using the medicine droppers squeeze a little bit onto the salt and watch it crawl through the swirls of salt, following the path.<br />
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Just look at that pincer grip! </div>
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Wild One was amazed at how the color "magically" travelled across the path.</div>
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Little Miss almost always chooses pink. Wild One dips into each color. </div>
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Are we really sure they are twins?</div>
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Since this is made of salt, it will begin to crumble off of the paper. Unfortunately, this isn't something that you can hang or save, unless of course you take a picture. Why do it then? <b>It's fun! </b> The kids love it. It strengthens their fine motor skills. It's part of childhood to enjoy the wonder. It allows the kids to use tools they normally wouldn't use on a daily basis. You get to hear "wow!" and "look at that!", and you get to see big smiles. I love those smiles! Happy creating!</div>
Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-68511585766688090762014-07-10T07:00:00.000-04:002014-07-10T13:42:01.274-04:00Colored Glue Monster Window Clings<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 Years)</i></div>
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My little ones love working with glue, <b>especially brightly colored glue</b>! Dying glue is so simple. If you are starting with brand new bottles of white glue, you'll need to empty some out about a 1/3 into a squeeze bottle (they sell them at The Dollar Tree) or another container with a lid. Then add either 1/2 tsp of liquid or gel food dye or liquid watercolor to your 2/3 filled glue bottle. I use a chopstick to stir the glue and color together first, and then just cap the glue bottle and shake until it's all combined. Add more coloring, stir and shake, until you have achieved your desired shade. While the kids were napping (yes, after four years, they decide NOW is when they want to start napping - not when they were one, or two or three years old, but now), I made six colors and left one bottle white.<br />
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<i>Materials needed:</i><br />
Colored glue<br />
Googly eyes<br />
Zip top freezer bags sliced along their edges - to open it up<br />
Trays or large books (to tape your freezer bags to- that way you can move their art to a drying area without it dripping or sliding off the plastic)<br />
Tape (to tape down the freezer bag to the tray, so that you don't have glue on the floor)<br />
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Let the fun begin! When making window clings, we learned that thicker glue is easier to peel off the paper than thin strands of glue, those tend to break off.</div>
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They loved squeezing and swirling the glue. <br />
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Wild One at one point decided to pick up two bottles of glue at the same time to squeeze together. Look at those fine motor skills developing. SQUEEZE!<br />
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Monsters must have googly eyes!<br />
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Little Miss decided that she wanted to create a rainbow. <br />
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Squeezing a glue bottle with precision takes a lot of strength and focus. Her little hands got a HUGE workout this morning. <br />
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Let creations dry for one or two days. If it's dry to the touch, try to peel it off the plastic. If it peels easily then it's ready. If it doesn't, then it needs another day to finish drying.<br />
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If the clings don't easily stick to the window, just wet the back of the cling with some water and they will adhere better.<br />
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They were so happy when they were able to stick their clings to the window. </div>
Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-78276998743407707662014-07-09T14:50:00.002-04:002014-07-09T14:50:19.563-04:00Shape Monsters<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 Years)</i></div>
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I actually did something similar to this with my fifth graders to review plane geometry. So, when I saw this on the wall of one of the potential pre-k schools for this Fall (it looked just like this <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/267682771576870158/">post here</a>), I knew we would be creating our own <b>shape monsters</b>. <br />
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The set up for this can be as elaborate or simple as you'd like. We worked on some basic shapes: circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, trapezoids and triangles. <u>The set-up for this took a little less than five minutes.</u><br />
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<i>Materials needed:</i><br />
Scissors<br />
Various colors of construction paper- we use the heavier stock, it's easier for them to work with<br />
Glue sticks<br />
Markers<br />
Large pre-cut shapes for your monster's body<br />
Smaller pre-cut shapes for body parts, horns, antennae, arms, legs, facial features...<br />
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I invited Little Miss and Wild One over to the kitchen table, "Who wants to build shape monsters with glue sticks?" That's all it took. I had two eager monster mechanics ready to design and create their shape monsters. <br />
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While they were busy working, Little Miss was having her monster talk to her. I love their imaginations. When they were finished with their creatures, I asked what they named it, and to tell me about the monster. Little Miss created Sailor, because he is in a sail boat. Wild One created Wolfie, who has very sharp teeth and no arms, but he does have a horn on his head! <br />
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Before wrapping this art project up, I asked each of them about the shapes they chose to use for their monster. I asked for them to point to and count each shape. I wrote the numbers down for Wild One, but Little Miss wanted to write her own numbers. We haven't practiced writing numbers yet. I was curious as to what they would look like. She asked me to write a number 2 for her, so I did on a scrap piece of paper. Her's came out pretty darn good! <br />
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While Little Miss was writing the number of shapes that she used, Wild One asked if he could make another monster. I love it when they want to keep working. His new monster has six arms and three legs, but NO nose! I love how emphatic he gets when he's excited, it's not just with his voice, he also emphasizes with his gestures. <br />
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<b>This art project helps to strengthen their fine motor skills, develop hand-eye coordination, reinforces the names of the shapes, fosters creativity, and prepares them for holding a pencil. </b>Plus, it's a lot of fun.</div>
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<i>(4 Years)</i></div>
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Who wants cookies? Have you ever heard someone say, "nah, not for me"? I haven't. Cookie? Yes, please. May I please have another? <br />
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These cookies were adapted from the very talented <a href="http://happyhealthymama.com/2012/02/no-sugar-banana-peanut-butter-crunchies.html">Maryea at Happy Healthy Mama</a>. I love these cookies for so many reasons: it's an easy kids in the kitchen recipe, it requires just a few ingredients, it doesn't have butter or refined sugar, it's vegan, it's gluten-free, it has fruits, nuts and oats, it's quick and most importantly it's DELICIOUS.<br />
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Little Miss helped me whip up a batch this morning before gymnastics. Look how easy this is, thanks again Maryea. <br />
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<b>Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Bites</b><br />
4 ripe small bananas, about 1 1/3 cups, mashed<br />
2 cups gluten-free oats or regular rolled oats (also called old fashioned oats)<br />
*1/3 cup peanut butter - we use <i>Skippy Natural Dark Chocolate or whatever we have on hand</i><br />
1 tsp pure vanilla extract<br />
1 cup pitted dates, chopped small<br />
*2/3 cup of chopped nuts, we usually use walnuts and pecans<br />
*1/3 cup of unsweetened shredded coconut<br />
*1/4 cup of dark chocolate chips or vegan chocolate chips<br />
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Mix everything together in a large bowl. Let sit for about 15 minutes. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Drop the mixture using tablespoon portions on a silpat or parchment lined baking tray, press down slightly to look like a cookie, or leave rolled into a ball (these will not spread). Bake for 15 minutes or until tops are golden. That's it! Eat and enjoy the happy smiles and "your the best mommy in the world" chants!<br />
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Little Miss was so happy to help me make these this morning. I love how both of my kids love to help bake, and how they always add a sprinkling of their love to the batter. So cute! This recipe really is kid friendly. The first time we made this, the kids just turned two!</div>
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*Now, Maryea's version is much healthier than mine, she's so good. She uses all natural peanut butter without any added sugar, and she doesn't add the dark chocolate chips or unsweetened coconut. I love how versatile her recipe is- you can make it as healthy, or ahem, not as healthy as your family would like. We love dark chocolate chips, we sprinkle them in pancakes, waffles, muffins, cookies. It helps hide the healthy, not that these cookies need the chocolate. They are plenty sweet from the ripe bananas and dates. Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-43188525077355993372014-07-02T14:48:00.005-04:002014-07-02T14:56:28.037-04:00Let's Learn About the Number Four - Composing <div style="text-align: center;">
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Little Miss and Wild One<b> love</b> using dot markers. Therefore, whenever I can tailor an activity to include dot markers I do, because I know I'll definitely get them to <i>want </i>to work on whatever I've planned. This morning one of our activities, besides <a href="http://two-much-fun.blogspot.com/2014/06/soak-sight-words.html">Soak the Sight Words</a> (again!), was working on composing the number four out of unifix cubes and then filling our work in using dot markers. My inspiration for this activity is from <a href="http://playfuldirections.com/2012/05/01/ways-to-make-10/">Playful Directions</a>, I found her on - well, you know where. <br />
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I modeled how to complete this activity with the number three. <br />
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We took turns pointing to the top of the page, the tally marks, the number in word form, in number form, and in dots (subitizing). I modeled the different ways we can make three with two sets of cubes (they chose black and green). We removed each cube, and used the same color dot marker to make a dot that represents each cube. That's when Little Miss noticed a pattern. Next to each row, we wrote the corresponding equation. Little Miss then took over and began explaining how I should write the remaining equations. </div>
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Before we began working on making the number four, the kids put the cubes back together in columns of ten. Wild One counted each cube to make sure he had ten linked together. Little Miss borrowed her brother's set of ten and measured it against her set to determine if she had the correct amount. <br />
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Together they discovered that they were missing just one cube.<br />
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Did you notice that Little Miss completed the left side of her sheet first? <br />
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Little Miss wasn't done straightening her cubes when I snapped the picture.<br />
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She then removed one set of cubes at a time, and added the correct color dot marker to her sheet. <br />
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I think next time, we work on composing numbers I'll use two different objects instead of the same object in different colors. When we discussed that 3 black cubes + 1 red cube = 4 cubes, and 3 red cubes + 1 black cube = 4 cubes, she said, "It's the same 3 + 1 = 4, why did we do it two times?" If we use bears and cars, I think it may be easier to understand that the colors represent two different groups that we are adding together. </div>
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What a busy morning! Picnic breakfast, three rounds of Soak the Sight Words, swim lessons, imaginative play in the pool, read several books, worked on composing numbers three and four, and lunch. Whew I'm wiped out! Little Miss went straight to sleep during nap time. Wild One decided he wasn't tired- even though he has dark circles. He ran to the couch with a Cat in the Hat, Learning Library book and began "reading". So cute! </div>
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Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-55565986196585332042014-07-01T22:19:00.003-04:002014-07-01T22:43:33.133-04:00Lightning McQueen + Sight Words = Learning Fun<div style="text-align: center;">
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Lately the kids have been asking to practice their magic words (that's what we call sight words). Their favorite way to practice is to <a href="http://two-much-fun.blogspot.com/2014/06/soak-sight-words.html" target="_blank">Soak the Sight Words from the pool</a>, they don't even know that they are learning or practicing or working. To them it's all a game, it's all fun, and that's why it works! This morning Little Miss asked to play the game <i>three times</i> She said that she wants to win, and answer more words than her brother. She actually said that! <br />
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A few days ago I found a sight word parking lot on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/theresa787/">Pinterest</a> from <a href="http://amomwithalessonplan.com/reading/sight-words/">A Mom with a Lesson Plan</a>. It looked perfect for us. Easy set up, I have everything that's needed in the playroom already (a roll of easel paper, crayons, cars, dice with sight words on them). So... during nap time I drew up a four-foot roadway and parking lot, wrote down some sight words in the parking spaces, grabbed all of our cars, and invited the kids to draw the landscaping. Little Miss sat right down and began drawing trees and flowers. Wild One decided to get dressed as Santa Claus, because it's July and one must dress as Santa in July, and June and May. <br />
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We used our giant die from the the <a href="http://two-much-fun.blogspot.com/2014/06/magic-sight-words-race.html" target="_blank">Sight Words Race</a> game, grabbed our basket of cars and we were off! Little Miss rolled the die, rolled on <i>was</i>, said the word (yay!), revved up her little car engine and raced (wildly, not the the typical controlled and precise driving that her personality is known for) down the windy road, past the green trees and white flowers to the parking lot and easily parked in the <i>was</i> parking space. She didn't even get her hand off of her car, when Wild One was jumping and saying, "my turn, my turn". <br />
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This couldn't have gone any better! We were laughing, we were racing, we were taking turns, we were learning! <br />
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Look at learning through play in action. Look at his concentration. Look at her smile. Look at Grandpa watching carefully. I love homeschool preschool!!!!<br />
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Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-27577441905462857362014-06-30T07:00:00.000-04:002014-06-30T13:53:10.334-04:00Frozen Themed Sensory Play<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 Years)</i></div>
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"Really? I'm guessing you don't have much experience with heat."<br />
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You can't help but sing along with the songs from<i> Frozen</i>- maybe because the kids sing it in the pool, while playing dress-up, in the bath, in the car.... you get the picture.<br />
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Well <i>Frozen</i> inspired this frozen sensory play. We first placed a can of shaving foam in the fridge the night before to get it nice and chilly. We then made three different colors of ice blocks- so the kids could pretend to be ice cutters (and builders) - it was supposed to be just shades of blues and purples, but I knew that Little Miss would really want pinks, so I made a batch of pinks also. We used gel food dye, but liquid food dye and liquid watercolor works the same when making colored ice. <br />
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This type of creative play is just perfect for a HOT summer day. They loved building and knocking down their ice creations. <br />
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The colored ice cubes lasted a long time in the 90 degree heat. In fact, it lasted so long that we brought out that can of cold shaving foam that I mentioned earlier.</div>
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"Foam!" Anna, Elsa and Olaf also joined in on the fun. The <i>Frozen </i>friends were buried in snow, an ice palace was constructed (and knocked down- ooops), they went sledding and ice skating, Olaf had his dip in the water - just like he always wanted.<br />
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They had so much fun playing with colored ice in the foam, it turned the foam beautiful shades of purple, blue and pink.<br />
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Clean up is so simple- hose it all down. The shaving foam even made their trays and toys squeaky clean. They played with the colored ice and foam for a little over an hour - the ice stayed all that time. If you need a fun, easy and inexpensive activity, this sensory play is perfect for that HOT summer day. </div>
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The kids asked to play with this again, next time we are going to add in some water beads for more sensory fun. I love how easy this is! Happy Monday<br />
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Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-19249385340142004412014-06-27T09:23:00.000-04:002014-06-27T09:23:12.106-04:00Soak the Sight Words<div style="text-align: center;">
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We've been playing in the pool a lot lately, a lot! It's just too hot or humid, or hot and humid to do anything that does not involve a pool, a sprinkler or being inside. Wild One and Little Miss, like most kids - and adults, like playing with water shooters. Instead of ME being their favorite target, I decided that we would soak some of their sight words. The chalk gets a quick dunk in the pool to make the writing a deeper color, and off I went writing down sight words (we call them magic words, it's more fun!). As soon as they saw me writing, I was bombarded with "What are you doing? Mom, what are you doing? Why are you doing that? Is that for us?"<br />
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When I asked if they wanted to play a water shooter game, they were bouncing "I do! I do!". They quickly grabbed and filled their water shooters. All they needed to do was be the first to pronounce the word that I pointed to (with a pool noodle, just in case their hand-eye coordination and aim wasn't as good at words as it is at me!). That's it! Let the game begin and they had a BLAST! <br />
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We played two rounds and then it was time to come in for lunch. As they were drying off, they asked if we could do more words tomorrow. Hmmmmm, yes!<br />
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Look how easy learning through play is!Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-38426339700241320862014-06-25T14:38:00.001-04:002014-06-25T14:38:18.813-04:00Magic (Sight) Words Race<div style="text-align: center;">
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I love finding and trying sight word games for my little ones (they are getting <b>so </b>big - sad sigh). We've done quite a few sight word games in the past (type SIGHT into the Search Box on the right and it will bring you to the games that we've posted). This one is another wonderful Pinterest find - who doesn't love <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/theresa787/preschool-pre-reading-fun/">Pinterest</a>. It's from Pre-KPages.com and it only takes minutes to set up, plus you don't need to buy a thing. <br />
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We repurposed one of our giant die, by cutting out circles, writing a sight word onto each circle and then taping them onto the die. Above is a link to my FREE activity sheet (just click the picture of the bar graph). Go ahead, grab a giant die or one of your wooden cubes, trace, cut, write, tape, print, play!<br />
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The kids really liked playing this. In fact, we only stopped because it was nap time. Yes nap time, they are FINALLY napping. It only took four years! I had to promise that I wouldn't put anything away and that they could play (don't you love it? "Play") with it again when they woke up from their naps. <br />
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Since we have more than one preschooler playing the game, we played like this:<br />
I modeled how to play- roll the dice, read the word, stamp the correct location on the bar graph (yadda yadda).<br />
I pointed to one of the words on the bottom of the sheet and asked the kids, "how to you pronounce this word?" Wild One said the word first, so he got to roll first. <br />
When the die lands, I would point to that word and ask how to pronounce it, the one who answers correctly first gets to roll the die next (after they make a dot on their sheet).<br />
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While we were "playing", we practiced some introductory math vocabulary. I asked which <i>column </i>had the <i>most </i>dots, the <i>least </i>dots, the <i>same </i>number of dots, which two columns when <i>added together</i> <i>equal</i> the number eight... <br />
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I asked what they liked about the game- Little Miss said the Dot Markers, being first (to get the correct answer) and rolling the BIG die. Wild One said playing games. I just love that we have another game that they <b>want</b> to play in our rotation.Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627251774635501084.post-86554859045296851212014-06-23T15:47:00.001-04:002014-06-29T10:49:55.701-04:00Rainy Day Treasure Hunt<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>(4 Years)</i></div>
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What to do on a rainy day, or a too hot and humid day? Go on a quick and easy treasure hunt! All that's needed is paper and something to write with. Create a short list of items to find within the house. Read them off to the kids and be prepared to be intrigued at some of the "treasures" that they find. I found this idea from <a href="http://lindseymaesmith.blogspot.com/2011/10/preschool-idea-can.html" target="_blank">Smith Tales</a> on Pinterest. It looked so easy and to be so much fun, I had to give it a try. I'm glad that I did! Look what we did:<br />
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We began the game in the playroom where ALL of the treasures could be found. However as soon as I read off each of the first items, Little Miss and Wild One ran OUT of the room in search of something that fits that description. Where are they going? <br />
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<i>Little Miss couldn't find an object for "something that moves". Wild One ran to her room and grabbed her jewelry box. "Look Tinkerbell moves when I wind her up!" </i></div>
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<i>In the playroom there were toy cars, a baby stroller, a red car that</i></div>
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<i>they ride on almost every day... I liked his out of the box thinking though!</i></div>
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<i>Something heavy</i></div>
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<i>Hee hee, fun and sneaky way to practice drawing circles and strengthening our fine motor skills.</i></div>
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It was hard to stay quiet during this game. Especially when the objects were RIGHT in front of them! However, I'm glad that we did stay quiet (good work Grandpa), because some of the items that they found I wouldn't have grabbed. <br />
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<i>Something that begins with the letter C - Wild One grabbed a CD!</i></div>
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I made two slightly different lists, one for each of my children. They liked playing the game so much that we decided to swap lists. Now, instead of making an X inside the box (since there is already an X from the first round of treasure hunt), we drew a circle around the square with the X to indicate that she/he completed that item. The only rule we had for the second round was that they had to discover a treasure that wasn't already found by the other person. <br />
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They LOVED this game! Quick and easy to set up, out of the box thinking, think - pair -share (think of an item, get together with a buddy and share your answers), practicing writing, having fun. Learning through play. Hmmmm, what to do next?Theresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17987772384696679731noreply@blogger.com0