Open ended small group preschool

Check out the creative kids art we created and tips for how to do open-ended arts and crafts with your child. Even better these ideas are almost free!

Pre-K and TK Activities: Back to School. Letter Recognition, Number Recognition, Counting, Colors, Patterns, Fine Motor Skills, and more!

Pre-K kids love exploring with ramps! I've posted other science activities here before involving ramps. We've explored ramps in our science center and

Need a simple Breakfast Invitation so you can drink your coffee hot? *Gasp!* I got you. Block play is a fantastic way to encourage higher-level thinking, and I am here to tell you why.

This was our first week back for Preschool Explorers and I started us off with a really easy and fun theme: shapes! Shapes probably doesn't necessarily fit within science themes, BUT it definitely fits into math (the M in STEM!), and learning shapes is great for letter recognition later. Also, I got a great set of foam shapes and I wanted to put them to use! Storytime: Opening Song: My Hands Say Hello - This is our standard opener; it signals to the kids that we're ready to start storytime…

Kindergarten/First Grade When I begin teaching at a new school I like to start with the Elements of Art to get a foundation established before working on a final project. With the primary grades my focus is Color, Line and Shape and Pattern. I usually begin with a lesson on color where the students mix the secondary colors from the primary colors and then create their own color wheels. After learning about Color we explored the element "Line". In the kindergarten and first grade classes we…