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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:

l is for line

one of the school concepts i introduce the children to is “standing in line.” like most of the skills and concepts , i don’t expect mastery. a spontaneous game of store during work time was a great opportunity to practice. i made a path of colored duct tape that was only wide enough for oneContinue reading “l is for line”

c is for crayon

i tweaked these little tins some time ago using duct tape to keep our crayons sorted by color. i never imagined how often children would dump out all the crayons just to resort them again. or in the case of this photo, find more crayons and sort those too.

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”