This product contains lots of games that kindergarteners can play, with an adult or independently. These make great centre activities during autumn. Included are: Cutting/Tracing Strips Shadow Matching Game Montessori Three Part Cards Flashcards Game ideas for the flashcards (or any flashcards) Rhyming Game (used with the three-part cards) Initial Letter/Sound Recognition Game Number puzzles…
Nature Shapes
We took a nature walk with the kids and talked about autumn signs, while gathering leaves, apples, acorns, and twigs. Then we reviewed shapes and made large ones on the floor, with washy tape and the things collected.
A Simple Experiment with Flowers and Food Colouring
We had these beautiful tiny white flowers (I think they’re called baby’s-breath) and I asked E. if she wants to put them in coloured water. She was excited when I told her that something will happen to the colour of the flowers. I set up everything (glasses, food colouring, pitcher, scissors, and flowers) and she…
Codeswitching
If you have a bilingual child or if you are bilingual, then you are probably using both languages in the same conversation quite often. I do. This is called code switching. “In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of…
DIY Counting Board
I found these spools of thread and the wool pompoms at a thrift store the other day and I had this idea. E. is more and more interested in counting + she loved balancing wooden balls on golf tees, so I thought of this. I first painted the spools to match the colours of the…
Functional-ish Toddler Kitchen / Snack Station
Have you seen those cool toddler kitchens with running water? Well…this is not one of them. We decided not to put a tap because we want to be able to transform it into a play kitchen again, when she will get bored of this (we’ve already done this once before) and because we needed to…