Preschool Animal Habitats using Sensorial Materials
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Autumn Nature Finds and How We Use Them
Saturday, September 17, 2016
We’ve been blessed with a beautiful weather last week. It’s actually pretty warm and sunny for September in Ireland which is quite unusual. So I grabbed the opportunity to walk the boys everyday and collect nature objects. We placed them in a basket and displayed it on the shelf for exploration and learning.
Life Cycle of an Apple Preschool Unit
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Vito is 34 months old.
I am so excited to share this with you! Last week, I set up an apple life cycle to Vito (and Mavi on the background) for a little science exploration. Apple is his favourite fruit and he was so delighted to see these materials in our shelf! Now if you take a look at our activity and materials, they’re pretty simple and easy to follow by a young preschooler. I assembled it in such a way that it’s not too overwhelming for him, yet enjoying and engaging.
Rocks and Minerals Learning Activities for Kids (with Free Cards)
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Activity Using Our Water Cycle Learning Pack
Monday, August 15, 2016
Understanding the Water Cycle
Friday, July 29, 2016
Sound Waves Experiment: The String Phone
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
I think is one of the best example of explaining to a 7 year old that sound travels. I enjoyed playing with this as a young child. But instead of using styro cups, we were used tin cans which I think is more effective.
Introducing Simple Machines to Kids (with Free Printable)
Monday, July 18, 2016
Kingdoms of Life: Animal Kingdom
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Mavi borrowed this book from the library so we can revisit the Animal Kingdom and he wanted to explore more of the other kingdoms of life. We’ve done a couple of times before (here and here) and he loves revisiting this over and over.
Fun Rain Cloud Experiment for Kids
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Vito is 31 months old.
Still part of our study of the bodies of water, we tried the rain cloud experiment at home and it was a total hit!
Land and Water Forms Learning Materials
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Hands-On Learning: Land and Water Forms
Monday, June 27, 2016
Indoor and Outdoor Light Activities for Kids
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Investigating the Past Life with Safari Toob Fossils
Friday, June 17, 2016
Anyway, Mavi is officially joining Vito’s weekly themed activities as he’s almost done with school. He misses “Mom” school and urged me to let him join with the activities. So while Vito is all about play and learn, I’m giving Mavi some serious investigative work like research, more readings, and selective hands-on activities.
Exploring Colors with DIY Light Table and Stencils
Thursday, June 16, 2016
We’re having simple activities for our Light and Shadow Unit. Since it’s been raining most of the time, we’re doing much of the activities indoors (much to my dismay). So probably, creating shadows under the sun has to wait, and shadows using torch will also have to wait since our sunset here is 10PM. We might redo this activity in September or October, when night time comes early so we can play with our torch and make shadows.
FREE Types of Clouds 3 Part Cards
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Learning the Different Types of Clouds
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Anyway, the first book he read was the Clouds Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1 (AmazonUS) (Book Depository). This is by far the best book I’ve encountered that illustrated the different types of clouds in a simple way, and the explanations are so basic and easy to grasp for kids. So after reading the book, we sat down the next day and worked on some hands-on activities for retention.
Teeth Activity for Toddlers! (29 Months Old)
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Earth and Land Theme: Earth Prints
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Vito is 29 months old.
Earth Day is coming! We’re having a week of Earth/Land Themed activities and I just have a lot of inspirations from here and can’t wait to try them! Yesterday we made Earth prints. I decided to this one first as its very easy to recreate and manageable when you’re doing it with two kids!