by jessicaperkins | Oct 13, 2011 | acorns, activity, autumn, bin, book, color, colors, fall, homeschool, leaf, leaves, preschool, Sensory, tot school, tub
Oh, Fall! Fall is here. I can tell by the brisk air. The smell of pumpkin and earth. The sound of leaves crunching while little feet walk. This sound is so characteristic of Autumn. I wanted to incorporate it in our sensory time – without using real leaves which...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 5, 2011 | autumn, book, books, fall, homeschool, library, list, preschool, shelf, tot school
Here are the books you will find on our shelves this Season…
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 21, 2011 | activity, art, artwork, beach, craft, fish, homeschool, ocean, project, toddler, totschool
We are always looking for ways to incorporate our themes into our art projects. We recently decided to make an under the sea “mural” on our door using different methods of expression for different creatures in the deep. We are learning about the beach and...
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
