by jessicaperkins | Nov 3, 2011 | bento, bento box, food, home school, kitchen, lunch, nutrition, School, time
With the beginning of the school year comes thoughts of a yummy school lunch. I have been exploring fun ways to present Buga with healthy lunching opportunities and fell in love with Bento style packing. Though she won’t be taking lunch to her little school this...
by jessicaperkins | Sep 6, 2011 | art, artwork, butterflies, butterfly, home school, homeschool, project, tot school, totschool
With the transformation of our butterflies we wanted to do an art project to celebrate. These coffee filter butterflies turned out to be a great example of process art…and totally whimsically cute finished. Buga loved spraying the spray bottle and watching the...
by jessicaperkins | Aug 8, 2011 | bug, bugs, counting, hands on learning, home school, homeschool, ladybug, learning, manipulatives, math, mathematics, numbers, numerals, Spring, teaching, theme, tot school, totschool
I made these for one of our bug themed learning centers. Buga has a really good sense for numbers for a three year old and this reinforces one-to-one ratios, counting, and numeral recognition.
by jessicaperkins | Jul 29, 2011 | butterflies, butterfly, home school, homeschool, science, tot school, totschool
by jessicaperkins | Jul 19, 2011 | food, home school, kids, kitchen, nutrition, snack, tot, tot school, treat
I am always trying to come up with ways Buga can help me in the kitchen. She loves cooking – and eating – and I find that when she participates in cooking, she is more likely to eat our creations. It’s a great way to teach beginning food Science, and...
by jessicaperkins | Mar 30, 2011 | activity, art, bug, bugs, drawing, hands on learning, home school, insect, natural play, pretend, science, sensory bin, tot school
As an extension of our Sensory Bin…and an extension of our Bug Find Game within the Sensory Bin, we decided to Draw the bugs we saw….and make up our own bugs!I was shocked by how wonderful and creative Buga was at creating these bugs. I wasn’t sure...
