The Tongue is such an amazing organ! It helps us eat, taste sweet cookies, and let’s not forget about the fact that it helps us talk. We learned about it by watching this fun video from KidsHealth. After talking about the sweet, sour, salty, and sweet tastes, we had a small tasting experiment. We had…
Newspaper Bugs and Drawing Prompts
We’ve talked a lot about recycling and reusing with the kids, and we have been trying to use objects that we don’t need any more in our daily crafts. This is a cute craft that we are going to make tomorrow. The children will cut the bug’s body, paint the newspaper page, then cut the…
Salt and Glue Paintings
I’m sure that most of you have done this before, because it’s a very popular idea on Pinterest. But I just wanted to share the results and to encourage you to do this with the kids, if you haven’t already. This technique is interesting because the children will get a chance to notice how quickly…
Exploring Invertebrates with a Worm Farm
I’m a fan of teaching children about recycling, reusing objects, and reducing waste. I think they need to be aware of environmental changes and how they could contribute to making the world a better place. In order to teach children about compost (also empathy and responsibility), we made a worm farm. We actually bought it…
Vocabulary Game with Shaving Foam
Shaving foam is quite a cheap product that you can use with children for a wide variety of activities. They can explore it using their senses: it smells great, it is puffy and cold, and it looks like soft snow. Here’s a game that you can play with English learners to review animals and verbs….
Games with Yes/No Sticks
These yes and no sticks are easy to use, fun, and versatile. They go great with lots of vocabulary games. So if you want to teach vocabulary to very young learners, hop on over to the Super Simple Learning free flashcards, download the flashcards that you need, then make some yes and no sticks and…