My kids love drama and acting stories out. I love providing them with the props they need to help them develop these skills! The greatest thing about drama is that your kids will only need some help in the beginning, but after a while they will be able to act easy stories out with no…
Penguin Number Mats {1-20, C and B&W}
These number mats are great for kindergartners who still need to work on counting, writing numbers from 1 to 20, subitizing, and understand the relationship between numbers and quantities. You can use them in various ways: – laminate them and use a dry-erase marker to write the numbers; – laminate them and use them as…
Let’s Get Moving – Song for ESOL and Kindergartners
Let’s Get Moving (Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)Let’s all jump, jump, jump,jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump,Let’s all jump, jump, jump,Fast, fast, fast! (or Slowly, slowly, slowly!)Author: Ilinca Sadoveanu You can ask the children to contribute with different actions: dance, hop, skip, leap, dig, leap, tip toe, swim, blink, shake, etc. Kids can get…
Let’s Be Friends – An Easy Song for Learning Names
Here’s a song that might come in handy in January with your newcomers. Click on the image below to download the pdf file. Let’s Be Friends (Tune: Frere Jacques) What’s your name? What’s your name? My name’s _________. My name’s _________. Let’s all be friends, let’s all be friends and play together, and play…
Music Makes the World Go Round
Many people are under the impression that singing with preschoolers is not an act of learning. One day when I told the children’s parents that we had a song circle in the morning, some of them asked “but did you also do math?”. It seems like some don’t realize how important music is for children….
Pompom Color Matching Game
Supplies needed: markers, egg carton, pompoms, tweezers or scoopers for children. You just need to color the bottom of the egg carton (the parts underneath the eggs) with the same colors as the pompoms that you have. Using tweezers, the children should transfer the pompoms to the colors that match them. It’s a very easy…