Category Archives: preschool educcation
An Easy Learning Toy For The Toddler
With Christmas quickly approaching the children are trying to make gifts for one another and their friends. Of course they aren’t very good yet at matching their abilities to their imaginations and desires to make things so most of … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Handwork, Life, preschool educcation, school readiness, Tutorials, Uncategorized
Tagged Creating, DIY, DIY Christmas, homeschooling with toddlers, How-to
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This Thing We Do
Been reflecting lately on why we homeschool. It’s hard sometimes and definitely uses time that could be used for something else but we still find ourselves doing it year after year… So why? For the good days … Continue reading
Invitations to Play and Learn: Less is More
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working at reducing the number and variety of things available to the big children (7 and 6) in non-school hours and the little boys (4 and 2) during school hours. Part of … Continue reading
Kitchen Kids: Toddlers In The Kitchen
One of the reasons that Buggle and Mouse are as comfortable in the kitchen as they are is that they’ve been in the kitchen with us from the time they were tiny! Some of that is the function of the … Continue reading
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Kitchen Kids: The Toddler Made Lunch!
Jack loves to cook! His toy kitchen is in the corner of the big kitchen and when I’m cooking he orbits between a stool by the counter where he can watch and help and making “coffee” and other treats for … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking with preschoolers, Kitchen Kids, life skills, Toddlers, toddlers in the kitchen
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Wrapping Up: Glimpses of Our Week II
Busy, but good. Next week will be crazier as the big three start a Gym and Swim class at the YMCA and Bull starts dance on Monday with Mouse having … Continue reading
Special Needs: Speech and Reading
One of my first teaching jobs was as a reading remediation tutor for a local first grader. My student was a bright little boy who was clearly trying hard but who appeared to be unable to remember the sounds of … Continue reading
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Tagged Special Needs, speech and language
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Invitations To Play And Learn: The Skeleton In The Sandbox
The big two are doing doing Story of the World Book One this year for their history. The book covers the ancient world from prehistory to the fall of Rome and begins with a discussion of where historians get their … Continue reading
Wrapping Up: Glimpses Of Our Week
And practicing Latin was a hit with everyone!
Invitation To Sensory Play: Small World Construction With Playdough
Playdough is big around here! I have a super easy recipe and probably make it about once a month. We’ve used it for sensory play with spices and sprinkles, for mortar for engineering projects with blocks, and for all … Continue reading