A “Cool” Way to Paint! Penguins Love Colors by Sarah Aspinall explores what happens when six little penguins, tired of living in a world of snowy white, take matters into their own hands and give their Mama a colorful surprise! This book expands preschoolers’ color knowledge by tying each color to a different flower (which also…
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Polar Bear Art Project
Preschool art can be tricky, can’t it? There is so much pressure (from Pinterest, from parents, perhaps even from other teachers) to have children make things that are “cute.” You know those projects that get a spot on the front of the refrigerator and maybe even make it into the scrapbook at home? But we’re the…
Polar Animals Unit
We recently wrapped up our unit on Polar Animals and Opposites. The lessons started with this adorable book about a loud, big white polar bear named Alex, and his small, quiet best friend Zina. Alex and Zina live on opposite sides of the world, but they travel to meet each other in the middle. This…
Clean Mud
This week we cleaned the Insta-Snow out of our sensory table and decided to make clean mud to fill it up. We followed this simple recipe from Happy Hooligans, and it turned out great! It takes only 2 simple ingredients! The students took turns exploring the ivory soap with their senses. We touched it, observed…