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h is for hospital

with a little rearranging we created a hospital in the classroom. hospital beds for the dolls and animals (and for the preschoolers who weren’t afraid to squeeze in). cheap masking tape was used for band-aids and bandages. there was an xray station (with real human xrays…thank you ms. aimee and real animal xrays i orderedContinue reading “h is for hospital”

l is for letter

i dabble in the handwriting without tears curriculum. mostly i am fascinated by the desire to make letter writing easily successful for children. one thing we do that is handwriting-withou- tears-ish is give craft sticks or wide gross grain ribbon strips to form the letters. here we have a 5 stick capital E:

t is for tree

techincally this should be a is for apple tree, but we make these trees for many reasons during a school year. one class made the trunk, one class made the leafy top, and then we added apple print apples. this was the first painting project of the school year. i intentionally gave brushes, but gaveContinue reading “t is for tree”

a is for apple prints

we had a table covered with paper, every color of the rainbow of paint squirted on, then half a dozen apples plus one hegeapple for us to roll back and forth. messier than i thought but loads of fun.

r is for rice bottles

my kids were glad to help drink 26 bottles of gatorade and vitamin water so i could have wider-mouth bottles. the preschoolers help me fill bottles with rice and then i hide something inside correlated to a letter. i tape the lid on with colored duct tape and write the letter on the lid. soContinue reading “r is for rice bottles”