For our summer crafts and story and circle time, we started learning about our families and then explored the natural world around us. Then we
Author: Candace
Candace Lindemann, Yale, BA, Harvard Graduate School of Education, EdM, is an educational consultant and published writer. She enjoys new learning experiences with her children, ages 6 and 4 and 1.5.
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Pancakes from Scratch
Unless you have a field of wheat growing in your backyard, you may need to take a few shortcuts–but making a batch of pancakes is a great cooking with kids activity that we do most weekends with our children.
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Jam, Jelly, and Preserves
One week the children picked blackberries and turned them into jam!
Usually I do not post the theme songs I use with my kids because I did not write them! They are usually anonymous pieces I find on the Internet. Maybe I should, though!
Here’s a song about snakes that I wrote, based heavily on typical preschool counting songs…
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Tickly Octopus Craft
Octopuses have so many fascinating adaptations and we found a storybook that captures this information with humor and charm: Tickly Octopus….
Because I love you all–the education bloggers, the parents, the homeschoolers, the teachers, the crafters, and, most of all, the kids, I wanted to create
Sea creatures are always a hit with little ones, especially if you have a decent aquarium nearby. We’re members at ours and the children are mesmerized by underwater life even as young as one–so colorful, so different, so entrancing!
My daughter has been taking piano lessons for almost a year and she loves to play. I am impressed with the progress she is making
Imagine showing up to school with no supplies because your family cannot afford them. As an educator who has worked in a variety of districts, I have seen how this can affect students. The more perceptive teachers sometimes quietly supply the students with what they need. Many students, however, suffer the embarrassment of being labeled “unprepared” or “scatterbrained” or “lazy”. And teacher-funded classrooms are not the solution–the most gifted teachers should not have to sacrifice more of their salary out of love for their pupils.
As an Elmer’s paid Bag It Forward ambassador, I was given $100 via Collective Bias to shop for two bags of school supplies — for my daughter and for a family in need…
We went for a program at a local nature center and it was a great reminder that a lot of our negative reaction to insects and other bugs is a learned response. Of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t recoil when I see our friend, Rosie…