Trees creative curriculum

Here are 100 amazing Sensory Bins for toddlers & preschoolers. Learn and play with all these ideas from rice to pom poms to caps & more!

This week started out with another cool box creation! My neighbors brought me another box, and the cardboard corner pieces begged to become a ball track. We rolled ping pong balls (yes, I rolled some too,) whenever the box was available. I finally retired the bean box midweek, when all the beans were spread all over the floor. Twenty-one ping pong balls are easier to pick up than 3000 beans! One of the things I wanted to include this week was more science. We started learning about trees by…

Part of a preschool topic study on trees

I love teaching about trees because there’s much to discover all year, during any season. From bark to leaves, trees are amazing wonders of nature! If you’re planning on studying trees …

The girls really love them some science! I would love to purchase all of the botany puzzles and cards, but unfortunately as a homeschool family I not only can't afford them, but I also don't really have the space to store the entire set of materials. I decided to make a felt tree to stand in for the parts of a tree puzzle. The quality of these drawings is pretty low, but I thought someone else might benefit from having the pattern ready to print. Perhaps someday when I have lots of spare…

Our school district uses the Creative Curriculum for all our preschool classrooms. This is a new curriculum for me. I am finding that I like it, but it will probably take me all of this year to fully utilize all the resources and to get a handle on how to best implement it with my littles. One thing I do really like is that there are unit studies which span approximately six weeks. This allows you to really immerse in a topic and to explore many different aspects of the topic in depth. We…

Leaf Measurement and Sorting Activity inspired by Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert

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