Preschool

I'll never forget my first day of teaching kindergarten in an inner-city school with struggling students, half of whom didn't speak English when they walked in my classroom. As I …

Using the book If You're A Monster And You Know It as our starting point, we played a Roll-A-Monster to review body parts and build our own silly monsters. It's …

Using some of our old magazines, we went on a letter hunt the first week of homeschool. Since Jonah still really needs more practice cutting, I helped cut some of …

Our life has been full of creepy, crawly bugs lately. We've watched caterpillars grow and change into butterflies. We've stopped to watch a parade of ants and then watched them …

In my last post, I shared about Preschool Hammer Practice using common household items. Today, we're going to extend the activity by adding some letter sound practice! Prep your materials: …

One of Jonah's favorite things to do is practice using a hammer...preschool style. If we're working in the basement, he often asks for this activity to work alongside of us. …

I've got a post over at Totally Tots today sharing a fun and easy shape building activity. It's a super simple one to make...like 2 seconds. Easy-peasy! Jonah and I …

Snow is a precious commodity around our region. We get snow, just not very often. Nor does it stay around very long once it finally snows. So, we often have …

We've entered the world of "Sight Words" around here! I've recently taken notice of some readiness for sight words with Jonah and decided to give it a try. I wasn't …

Jonah and I bought some pool noodles recently at the Dollar Tree. No, we don't have a pool, but we did have a purpose! We were working on a post …