The Daily Update – Page 185

e is for earth day

when i say EARTH DAY, you say EVERY DAY! we were graced with beautiful weather and moved as many of our preschool activities outside as we could. earlier in the week we did a two-part project of painting earths. first the children painted green land masses (VERY tricky to not paint the whole plate green!).Continue reading “e is for earth day”

c is for cleaning

i am a firm believer in having purposeful work available to children. if i pull out the spatula-turned-dried-glue-cleaner-upper and water, at least one child comes over. then two. then a table full. then they decide they need aprons and paper towels. then it is discovered that the spatula actually works as a flipper. then theContinue reading “c is for cleaning”

w is for (the best) water toy

note to self: find more egg beaters at the thrift shop. like 13 of them.

g is for grow!

look at our wheat…photo taken exactly one week from planting. since it comes from organic wheat seed, we nibble on it. some kids ate quite a bit, tearing it off or actually getting scissors. it is surprisngly sweet after you chew it a bit. and wow, look at this: no mystery left here.

b is for BIG collage carrot

i decided to use a piece of cardboard and left over orange paper to make a BIG version of our collage carrots (in case that maybe real-maybe not real easter bunny is really hungry). again, we pretended there were no scissors. again, we used up all the glue we had (for real). and i shouldContinue reading “b is for BIG collage carrot”