Super simple learning ideas for kids!
Valentine’s Day is such a happy time of year in my preschool classroom! Maybe it’s the fun colors and the hearts that are everywhere. Or maybe it’s the fact that we play and learn with candy for days! Candy hearts are such a great manipulative to use in the classroom. The sweet hearts in our candy hearts count & clip cards may not be real,
Valentine’s Day is one of my very favorite times of year in my preschool classroom! We spend the beginning of February focusing on all things involving hearts, friendship, and kindness. We also sneak in lots and lots of literacy, math, and fine motor practice. Our printable Name Recognition Alphabet Hearts learning activity is the perfect reusable busy bag to practice letters in your preschooler’s name
Our absolute favorite set of clip cards to use independently with young preschoolers (and even toddlers!) includes simple shape matching. The simplicity of the activity allows the clip cards to be a learning center in my classroom or a quiet activity at home. Our Heart Number Match Clip Cards is a similar activity that focuses on exact matching of numbers instead of counting. The set works on number
Each year, we pack into the car to go pick out a Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. We always seem to pick the first one we see. The tree trimming guys clean it up, give it a fresh cut, and load it on to the top of our car. The best part about the whole experience for me is loading up on the free
I try my best to keep all learning activities in my classroom hands-on and engaging. Little kids have plenty of worksheets to look forward to in elementary school, so I try to come up with other ways to learn uppercase and lowercase letters. It may take a little more time, but my pre-k kids appreciate lots of new activities and themes! Our cookie alphabet pre-writing
Who else has an obsession with mini erasers? It cannot just be me. Every time I’m in the dollar store or the Dollar Spot, I love looking through them all. There were a ton of options out for the fall season too! There are a million different learning ideas that they can be used for. A pumpkin pre-writing activity was perfect for all of the
We live so close to the ocean, so all of the under the sea and ocean activities that I come across seem extra fun to plan for my preschoolers! I have put together the ultimate list of awesome ocean activities for preschool and kindergarten. You can easily add these to your science area, craft time, sensory bin, and fine motor play area. These ocean activities
Did you know that a sea star is technically not a fish? This is where the confusion comes from when referring to a sea star and not calling it a starfish. I will admit that I need to be better about calling a sea star the correct name most of the time! No matter what you call it though, our Frozen Sea Star Simple Science
If you have a little one who has a favorite book, you know what it’s like to read the same book over and over and over again! When my preschoolers are loving a new book, we could read it 2-3 times in a morning. Recently, we have been reading Eric Carle’s, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and we are all slightly obsessed. Between the repetitive text,
My preschoolers love to explore with magnets! Usually a surprise is involved when magnetic objects are attracted to our magnet wands, which is the best part. To add a new dimension, we mixed plastic eggs with our magnet wands, and came up with a fun way to figure out which kinds of objects are magnetic and which are not. The plastic egg magnetic science activity
