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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”

y is for year

i told the kids that when they came back from school after christmas, it would be a new year. when i would refer to “next year” there were several kids who raised their eyebrows and scrunched their noses to tell me, “sorry, i won’t be here. i’ll be in kindergarten next year.” one of theContinue reading “y is for year”

i is for imagination

this is part of what i love about my work. we have this weaving hanging in our room. it has been basically untouched for months. until this day. this was complete cooperative work. incredible imagination. i never completely understood the game. but there was a lot of fine motor muscle work wrapping little animals aroundContinue reading “i is for imagination”

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”