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d is for decorating for christmas

with a little sparkly rick rack, our preschool village is looking ready for christmas!

i is for instrument chair

complete spontaneous play (during J week) during work time resulted in an instrument chair: they used the rubber bands from our rubber band boards and said, “we should have done this during i week!” next year.

i is for instrument

thank you families for bringing cardboard tubes for show and tell. again, much counting (one day we were able to count in 5 languages…english, spanish, indonesian and then my dad who was visiting added german and french). we used duct tape, more foam strips, masking tape, old rice, stickers to make shakers and blowers. weContinue reading “i is for instrument”

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:

r is for rainbow paint

i am so thankful for these paints…found by a preschool mom at the thrift shop. moisten (or drench) in water for bright colors. they are more like chalk than watercolor. lots of projects to come with these.