What are transitions? They are short songs, rhymes, games, that help make the transition from an activity or a routine to another effortlessly or smoothly. Why are they useful? Because they help kids calm down and relax before the next activity; Because they stimulate the children’s curiosity and get their attention, while also engaging them;…
What a Drawing Can Tell You About a Child?
To the casual observer, a child who is scribbling on a white piece of paper is just fooling around, but a kindergarten teacher knows that the child’s scribble is more than that. The circles and wavy lines a child draws look like something meaningless, but the action of drawing is something engaging, captivating to her….
How to Make Dinosaur Fossils
This is a great activity for preschoolers and kindergarteners. Most of them love dinosaurs, or salt dough, or both! 🙂 I saw this idea on Learning4Kids website and knew that my kids will enjoy making some dinosaur fossils. It doesn’t take too long, so I was able to squeeze it in our busy schedule. We…
The Best, Most Awesome, Educative, and Fun Music CDs for Kids
I’ve mentioned Super Simple Learning in a lot of my posts and I truly feel that if you have a child, teach kindergarten, or teach English to speakers of other languages, their CDs are a great resource to have. I’ve been teaching kindergarten for five years and I’ve used their songs with all of my…
Space Playdough
It’s Friday, and that means I have some free time on my hands! 🙂 What a better way to spend my free time (except for biking and playing board games – which I don’t like doing by myself) than making playdough. I got bored with our old pink playdough, so I wanted to make something…
Activity Idea Cup
Do you have lots of great ideas for kids’ projects, but when you actually want to try something fun and educative nothing comes to mind? It has happened to me – quite often, I might add! And that’s why I made this idea cup. This is how it works: whenever we want to play and…