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Learning About Space

January 25, 2013 By Seemi

Preschool and Montessori activities for an Astronomy and Space Unit

  Here’s our unit studies shelf with many of our Astronomy materials. This is our Solar System basket.  I paper mache’d the foam planets from a kit in order to make them more durable.  The booklet has a great song entitled “The Family of the Sun”. I used a product called sculptamold on this styrofoam […]

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Astronomy, Space

Animals in Winter

January 21, 2013 By Seemi

Preschool and Montessori activities for learning about Animals in Winter

  This is our Unit Studies shelf with activities to help children explore what animals do in winter.   Here’s our setup for making animal tracks in playdoh.  A little glitter in the white playdoh can make the work even more attractive.  I used the animals from our North America box for this activity.   […]

Filed Under: Science, Seasonal Tagged With: Animals, January, Winter

Working with the Easel

January 17, 2013 By Seemi

Using the art easel in preschool

We love everything about painting at the easel! Over the last few weeks we’ve been exploring tints. What happens to blue when you mix it with white? I love how this little guy left the top right quadrant of his paper blank and declared his painting finished. Check out some of these old videos of […]

Filed Under: Art

Blue Flowers!

January 14, 2013 By Seemi

I did it.  I caved!  I bought artificially colored flowers for our flower arranging work this week.  In Montessori we try to keep things as natural as they are… but this time I simply couldn’t resist the electric blue and vibrant purple flowers calling me from the flower bin. Here they are on our flower […]

Filed Under: Practical Life

Free Preschool Printables for Winter

January 11, 2013 By Seemi

A roundup of free preschool and kindergarten printables for winter!

  Here are some highlights from our early literacy shelf (pictured above) in January:   What’s Missing on the Snowman? from A Child’s Place. Scroll down to the “printouts” section near the bottom of the page for this free printable PDF.   Snowman Sequencing from Teach It With Class.   I Have, Who Has… Winter […]

Filed Under: Language, Math Tagged With: January, Winter

January- What’s New on the Art Shelves this Winter?

January 4, 2013 By Seemi

Some winter themed basic art skills and activities for preschoolers and early learners

  Pinpunching snowflakes and mittens.  The mittens can be decorated with little dots or paper-punched snowflakes Pinpunching a snowman and decorating with various items Cutting coffee-filter snowflakes.  I like to pre-fold and pre-draw the lines, then paperclip together to help the younger ones manage this work.  Older children can be shown how to prepare the […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: January, Winter

Linked to these Great Blogs

January 1, 2013 By Seemi

I regularly link my posts to these great blogs.  Please check them out!   Monday Tuesday     Wednesday     Thursday          Friday     Saturday          Sunday             

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Fine Motor Activities For January

January 1, 2013 By Seemi

Fine motor activities for a winter theme. Great for preschoolers in January or when you're learning about snowmen and winter.

  Pouring sparkly pom poms Pouring blue rice Pouring blue water using a funnel Spooning gel beads in a snowman dish Spooning sparkly balls into dimpled foam packaging Straight pins into a shaker.  I put the shaker in a little winter-y bowl Tweezing and sorting fuze beads Using an eye dropper to add one drop […]

Filed Under: Practical Life, Seasonal Tagged With: Fine Motor, January, Winter

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