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o is for owl

whooooooooooooooooo loves you? these owl friends do. each preschooler cut the eye shapes (since it was O week, this was a good time to practice cutting on a circle line…hard to do, i must add). we discussed shapes and then gave each preschooler a pile of pre cut shapes along with their circles. it wasContinue reading “o is for owl”

m is for milk lid

preschool families and friends have been collecting milk lids for us. thank you! since it is m week we’ve been sorting by color. we’ve noticed that in the tens of milk lids there are, there is only one brown lid. come on, let’s drink some chocolate milk! the next phase of this activity is arrangingContinue reading “m is for milk lid”

v is for vowel

we took advantage of i week to talk about the concept of vowels. we sang this song (to the tune of “bingo”): then i had each vowel written on a piece of paper and when i took one (or more) away, we clapped in its place. these preschoolers got pretty good by the end ofContinue reading “v is for vowel”

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:

o is for orange

this is one of my favorite activities…we do it for all secondary colors. this month we honored orange. after squeezing a bit of red and yellow paint in a baggie and then sending it around the circle for all to squeeze so we can make orange, we move to the project table. when given aContinue reading “o is for orange”