by jessicaperkins | Feb 12, 2016 | activity, book, books, collage, color, colors, kids read, literature, preschool, rainbow, read
Here are a few of our favorite preschool color books, crafts, and activities. Enjoy! A Color of His Own – Leo Lionni The Crayon Box that Talks – Shane DeRolf Dog’s Colorful Day – Emma Dodd Bear Sees Colors – Rainbow Roller –...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 12, 2015 | activity, counting, fall, kidmath, leaf, leaves, mamamayi, MamaMayILearn, math, montessori, preschool, totschool
One to one correspondence. Early counting.We have been using these little Counting Leaves in our Sensory Kits since September but had some colored gemstones out today for another project and decided to do some one-to-one correspondence. I love the Fall colors and how...
by jessicaperkins | Aug 13, 2012 | Alphabet, art, book, collage, craft, homeschool, letters, literacy, preschool, reading, words
When we are done with our phonics box, we look at the letter-objects and make a collage of the letter. We draw some of objects we see, add stickers of same sounding images, letter stickers, glue letters, scratch art letters, etc. Buga really enjoys this tangible. I...
by jessicaperkins | Aug 13, 2012 | Alphabet, Language, letters, montessori, phonetics, preschool, reading, sensory bin, texture, word sounds, words
I am so excited to introduce this little phonics box. It is a work in progress. It’s not so easy to find teeny things to fit in the drawers for each of the letters, but we started our collection. And little people like collections. Buga is excited to search the...
by jessicaperkins | Aug 2, 2012 | activity, beach, coconut, dough, kids, kitchen, natural play, ocean, play, playdough, preschool, totschool
We have been making Play Dough seasonally, which seems to work out well. We choose a different color and scent depending on what we are exploring for the season. This Summer we chose to make Yellow Play Dough with Gold Glitter and Coconut Extract (it smells like...
by jessicaperkins | Jun 6, 2012 | art, beach, coloring, crayons, preschool, project, shell, shells, summer, totschool
We did several projects to include on our Beach Mural this summer. One of them was a simple color-me shell page. We both colored some of the shells to put up at the bottom of the ocean floor. Buga doesn’t always enjoy coloring – it’s not that she...
