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Fish Science, Turkey Basters, and Fine Motor Fun – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

Homeschool Preschool: Preschool and Kindergarten Community linkup at Homeschool Creations

These were just a few of the MANY wonderful links during last week’s linkup of the Preschool and Kindergarten Community. You all continue to amaze me with your fun ideas. Thanks for so generously sharing!

Homeschool Preschool - Fine Motor Dashboard

Using lids from containers, a cardboard box, and a variety of other items found around the house, Lalymom put together a most AMAZING fine motor activity dashboard for her two kids. Seriously – you just need to check it out. So amazingly cute.

Homeschool Preschool - Turkey Baster Pom Pom Race

You know those turkey basters that sit all lonely in your kitchen drawer, only to be pulled out once a year? School Time Snippets has a fun fine-motor pom pom activity that will guarantee it is used more than once a year.

Homeschool Preschool - Leaf Art

Pinay Homeschooler shares an project that she did with her children inspired by Georgia O’Keefe’s Autumn Leaves. They used a mixture of watercolor and pastels to make some beautiful artwork.

Homeschool Preschool - Fish Science

If you need a fun science lesson on fish, check out the mini-unit on fish that Haffly Homeschool put together. She has some free printables to share with you!

That’s it for this week. Thanks so much for sharing your learning ideas with everyone and be sure to visit a few other parents that are linking up below. Pin, comment, and share away with your friends!

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Each week I am  pinning many of your links onto the Preschool and Kindergarten Community Pinterest Board. I’m a visual person, so having pictures to help me remember posts is super helpful. Be sure to jump over and follow the board – and find some fun ideas at the same time!

Link Up with the Preschool and Kindergarten Community!

Share what you are doing with your kids! Please link your exact blog post to the Mr. Linky below and link back here too! Grab a button for your post and be sure to take a minute to visit the person who linked up before you.

You can read more in the updated guidelines for Preschool and Kindergarten Community. By linking up, you are granting permission for me to share your wonderful ideas and pictures with others in periodic show-and-tell posts.

Be specific in your ‘link title’. Leave either your blog name or theme and provide an age range for your activities. Something a little like this:

Police Officer Theme {ages 4-5}

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Stethoscopes, Owl Crafts, and Learning to Count – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

Homeschool Preschool: Preschool and Kindergarten Community linkup at Homeschool Creations

It’s the end of the week? Are you ready for a few days to rest, recharge, and prepare for next week? {grins} There were almost fifty of you linking up to last week’s Preschool and Kindergarten Community – lots of great ideas, so be sure to visit and check them out!

Here are a few highlights from the link-ups. Can’t wait to see what you all have to share this week.

Homeschool Preschool - DIY Stethescope

Learning about doctors? Check out this DIY Stethoscope project from Fanstastic Fun and Learning. You’ll just need a few funnels and the fun will follow!

Homeschool Preschool - Owl Craft

This owl craft is just too cute! Heather from Mommy’s Little Helper shares some other fun ideas for an owl unit that she did with her son as well.

Homeschool Preschool - Pumpkin Craft

You only need construction paper, scissors, and a brad to pull together this cute little pumpkin craft.

Homeschool Preschool - cooking with kids

Tanya from Finding the Teachable Moments put together a great step-by-step cooking lesson for her son to enhance the ‘fun’ of cooking together.

Homeschool Preschool - Learn to Count

Working on counting and simple addition with your child? This fun hands-on counting game from Mama’s Blissful Bites is sure to be a hit and is great for teaching 1:1 correspondence as well.

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Preschool Pinterest Board

Each week I am  pinning many of your links onto the Preschool and Kindergarten Community Pinterest Board. I’m a visual person, so having pictures to help me remember posts is super helpful. Be sure to jump over and follow the board – and find some fun ideas at the same time!

Link Up with the Preschool and Kindergarten Community!

Share what you are doing with your kids! Please link your exact blog post to the Mr. Linky below and link back here too! Grab a button for your post and be sure to take a minute to visit the person who linked up before you.

You can read more in the updated guidelines for Preschool and Kindergarten Community. By linking up, you are granting permission for me to share your wonderful ideas and pictures with others in periodic show-and-tell posts.

Be specific in your ‘link title’. Leave either your blog name or theme and provide an age range for your activities. Something a little like this:

Police Officer Theme {ages 4-5}

Were You Featured in the Preschool & Kindergarten Community?

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Creative Geography, Fine Motor Helps, and Cooperation – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

Preschool and Kindergarten Community at Homeschool CreationsReady for a few highlights from last weeks link up? You all continue to inspire me with your fun ideas!!

Homeschool Preschool - Flag peg people

This creative {and SUPER CUTE} geography idea comes from Sorting Sprinkles. She painted peg people to represent the flags of their nations and made it a fun activity for the kids to match up onto a map. To go along, you could also download the Country Flag matching game printable too to use with these cute flag people!

Homeschool Preschool - Dinosaur-Skeleton-

Just a few simple items are needed to make these cute play dough skeletons from Fantastic Fun and Learning. These would be so much fun to add to a human body or ‘All About Me’ unit.

Homeschool Preschool - Integrity-Time

To talk about cooperation, Carisa from 1+1+1=1 and her kids worked together on something simple, but also yummy! Each of the kids had a part of the smoothie ingredients and worked together to make something better than just a single ingredient.

Homeschool Preschool - yarn pumpkins

Your kids can help you decorate around the house a bit by working on these yarn pumpkins that Enchanted Homeschooling Mom shared. Super cute!

Homeschool Preschool - paint swatch sort

Work on those fine motor skills with this easy paint chip pick up from Schooltime Snippets. Really easy to put together, and a great activity for little ones!

That’s it for this week! Be sure to link up your preschool and kindergarten ideas below and grab a button if you were featured as a part of the Preschool and Kindergarten Community. Thanks for joining in with us!

Follow the PreK and Kindergarten Community Pinterest Board

Preschool Pinterest Board

Each week I am  pinning many of your links onto the Preschool and Kindergarten Community Pinterest Board. I’m a visual person, so having pictures to help me remember posts is super helpful. Be sure to jump over and follow the board – and find some fun ideas at the same time!

Link Up with the Preschool and Kindergarten Community!

Share what you are doing with your kids! Please link your exact blog post to the Mr. Linky below and link back here too! Grab a button for your post below and be sure to take a minute to visit the person who linked up before you. You can read more in the updated guidelines for Preschool and Kindergarten Community. By linking up, you are granting permission for me to share your wonderful ideas and pictures with others in periodic show-and-tell posts.

Be specific in your ‘link title’. Leave either your blog name or theme and provide an age range for your activities. Something a little like this:

Police Officer Theme {ages 4-5}

Were You Featured in the Preschool & Kindergarten Community?

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Science ABC’s, Sight Word Treasure Hunt, and Sunflowers – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

Did you catch the October Pocket Chart Calendar Numbers that were shared earlier this week {psst…they’re free}. We’ve been having fun working on a new pattern for the month of October with them.

Here’s a little peek at what you all are working on with your kids…

Alphabet in Simple Science

If you are looking for a different way to approach the alphabet with your kids, check out the Alphabet in Simple Science that Memorizing the Moments is working on. So far she has shared the letters A through D – what a FUN idea!

 

Vehicle Letter Transport

During a study of the letter D, There’s Just One Mommy pulled out the bottle cap letters and had the dump trucks carry off letters to make different words.

 

Pirate Montessori Word Cards

Every Star is Different has some free printables to share in case you have a pirate unit coming up soon. {and even though I’m not a kid, the term ‘poop deck’ may have made me giggle}.

 

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While we’re talking about pirates, check out the fun sight word treasure hunt that Life with Moore Babies did with her girls. The words are actually written on baked cotton balls – are you curious?

 

Exploring Sunflowers

If you have any HUGE sunflowers hanging out somewhere near your house, bring the learning indoors. Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds has some fun learning ideas to use with your kids. Head over and check them out.

 

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Preschool Pinterest Board

Each week I am  pinning many of your links onto the Preschool and Kindergarten Community Pinterest Board. I’m a visual person, so having pictures to help me remember posts is super helpful. Be sure to jump over and follow the board – and find some fun ideas at the same time!

 

Link Up with the Preschool and Kindergarten Community!

Preschool and Kindergarten Community at Homeschool Creations

Share what you are doing with your kids! Please link your exact blog post to the Mr. Linky below and link back here too! Grab a button for your post below and be sure to take a minute to visit the person who linked up before you. You can read more in the updated guidelines for Preschool and Kindergarten Community. By linking up, you are granting permission for me to share your wonderful ideas and pictures with others in periodic show-and-tell posts.

Be specific in your ‘link title’. Leave either your blog name or theme and provide an age range for your activities. Something a little like this:

Police Officer Theme {ages 4-5}

 

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God’s Little Explorers Preschool Curriculum Flash Sale

This is last minute, but I wanted to let you all know about a one-day sale on God’s Little Explorers Preschool Curriculum {September 30, 2013 only} and the great cause that this sale is helping fund!

God's Little Explorers Preschool Curriculum

Motherhood on a Dime has an amazing preschool curriculum called God’s Little Explorers. This 28 week curriculum is normally $14, but today only you can pick up your copy for $10. ALL of her profits are being sent to an orphanage in India to help raise the $38,000 they need for a building project.

 

Use the coupon code BUILD to save $4.00!

 

Structure of the God’s Little Explorers Preschool Curriculum

If you aren’t already familiar with it, here are a few things to know about God’s Little Explorers:

  • There are 28 weeks of lesson plans.
  • The alphabet is not presented in order.  Instead it travels through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation in 28 weeks, so the Bible is seen as a beginning to end story.
  • Lowercase letters are taught first, so if you your child already knows them, you can add in capital letter too!
  • Lessons are simple to use and require items commonly found around the house. There are a few projects that might require more prep, but you’ll have notice!
  • It’s mostly hands-on and active.
  • If you do everything in the plans, you will spend approximately 20-45 minutes per day on focused instruction.
  • This curriculum was written for ages 3-4, but it can be easily adapted for 2-year-olds or 5-year-olds.
  • Well-laid out and thought out lesson plans with TONS of printables!

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Four Main Parts to God’s Little Explorers

1)  Bible Adventure:  This is the time to read the Bible story, sing any recommended songs, and do a related craft or project.

2)  Theme Adventure:  During this time, explore the theme with crafts, science projects, and cooking projects.

3)  ABC & 123:  This time specifically introduces an alphabet letter and also explores colors, shapes, and numbers during the year.

4)  Life Skills:  Preparing a preschooler for life is much more than teaching them the ABCs!  Each week, review various self-help skills, learn to complete chores

correctly, practice manners, and do a service project. Additional activities are also listed to substitute for ones you might not like or have time to complete.

Two other optional sections:

  • Book Bag:  A list books to go along with the theme and sometimes suggest an activity to be completed around the book.
  • Learning Bags:  A version of busy bags when little ones need  an independent activity to work on while you work with your older children.

 

One-Day Sale: September 30, 2013 ONLY!!

Use the coupon code BUILD to save $4.00!

 

 

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Packing Peanut Sculptures and Discovery Bottles – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

How’s the weather in your area? It’s really feeling like fall here which makes me want to break out all the fall-scented candles, go hiking with the kids, and find an orchard nearby. Time to make applesauce!

Stay tuned for some fun pumpkin and fall themed calendar printables too! I’ll be sharing some in the next few days with you all, so warm up your laminators and get your scissors ready to do some cutting!

Here are a few ideas to Pin and file to use with your kids in the next bit.

Packing Peanut Sculptures

While packing peanuts are not my favorite thing to find in my house, this sculpture idea would be a great way to use them! Visit To the Moon and Back to read more of this fun activity.

 

We're Going on a Bear Hunt Discovery Bottles

The book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt was one of our FAVORITES, and this idea of using discovery bottles = brilliant. (Well, in my book – for what that’s worth). Visit Nestpirations for how she pulled this fun idea together.

21 Graphing and Measuring Activities

Want to work on graphing and measuring with your young kiddos? Moms Have Questions Too shares 21 different graphing and measuring activities that you can try out.

 

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It’s apple season and the ideas are rolling in for fun fall ideas. Here’s a simple apple counting and math activity using red water beads from 3 Dinosaurs.

 

 

For those of you who didn’t have a chance to join in the Discipleship and Discipline class, it is now available on-demand (which means you can watch the sessions as they were recorded at any time – woot!). Sally Clarkson and Sarah Mae are SUCH encouraging women and spent four days answering parenting questions and offering insight for moms who desperately need it. You can find out more here.

Have a great week. Can’t wait to see what you all have to share and link up this week!

Follow the PreK and Kindergarten Community Pinterest Board

Preschool Pinterest Board

Each week I am  pinning many of your links onto the Preschool and Kindergarten Community Pinterest Board. I’m a visual person, so having pictures to help me remember posts is super helpful. Be sure to jump over and follow the board – and find some fun ideas at the same time!

Link Up with the Preschool and Kindergarten Community!

Preschool and Kindergarten Community at Homeschool Creations

Share what you are doing with your kids! Please link your exact blog post to the Mr. Linky below and link back here too! Grab a button for your post below and be sure to take a minute to visit the person who linked up before you. You can read more in the updated guidelines for Preschool and Kindergarten Community. By linking up, you are granting permission for me to share your wonderful ideas and pictures with others in periodic show-and-tell posts.

Be specific in your ‘link title’. Leave either your blog name or theme and provide an age range for your activities. Something a little like this:

Police Officer Theme {ages 4-5}

Were You Featured in the Preschool & Kindergarten Community?

If you were featured in one of the weekly posts, feel free to grab the button coding below and display it on your site!

Preschool Corner

 

 

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