Every morning during circle time, we talk about feelings – how we are feeling at that moment, what makes us feel happy/sad/angry and why, or what we do to make others feel happy/sad/angry/etc. We have a song about feelings – another one from Super Simple Learning – that we modified a little bit. It’s called…
Songs and Teaching Ideas for Colours
Throughout the first years of kindergarten, children will learn to recognize colours, by practising locating objects of a specific colour when asked, ordering objects of different colours into matching colour groups, comparing objects on the basis of characteristics and physical properties, such as color, shape, size, etc. Also, by using water colours, markers, chalk, pencils,…
Colour Matching Activity
I’ve found a very nice activity from Playdough to Plato and I wanted to share it with you: popsicle stick patterns. It comes with a free printable. The kids got to match the colours of our popsicle sticks to the ones on the paper, and also to practice the colours in English. Each child first…
Pom Pom Play Mats
Pom pom mats are a fun and enjoyable way to practise colour and number recognition and work on fine motor skills with very young kids. The kids in our group love playing with our new pom pom mats from Busy Little Bugs. Some of them even started naming the colours in English while playing in…
The Perfect Playdough Recipe
I’ve been searching for the best recipe for play dough and I’ve finally found it! I won an amazing giveaway from the Artful Parent and I received Jean Van’t Hul’s book. There it was: the best recipe so far. I used a bit more flour than it says there, but I think it depends on…
Scoopers and Tweezers
I’ve just bought these handy scoopers and tweezers for kids and I couldn’t wait to use them 🙂 They are great fine motor and pre-writing skills. The kids get to practice using their muscles to pick up small objects (pompoms, flashcards, pieces of dough, craft eggs, etc.). However, I found the tweezers to be quite…