TheNanny612 article, brought to you using rss feeds. It’s got some great activity ideas.
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This lesson plan can be used for pre-k, preschool, kindergarten or homeschooling. It’s not a comprehensive form, more of a guide to keep yourself on track or to alert parents or administrators to your plans. I always like to post something like this on my wall so that all interested parties would have an idea of what we were doing in class that week and it was helpful to keep me on track as well.
The curriculum enhancement space is for those of you who may have “extras” that go on, like when your kids leave class for Spanish, Dance or Computers. On days when the children aren’t going anywhere outside the classroom, I usually would focus on sign language to teach and reinforce the letter and color of the week.
You can fill it out something like this:
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When I was homeschooling, I really liked to supplement what we were doing with pages from the Comprehensive Curriculum series. I can’t say I like this for the younger ages, though, since worksheets really tend to be more stifling at those ages (preschool, K), but my son was in 4th grade when we homeschooled, so it was a nice way to practice some of the basic skills he was learning.
I did the cheap thing (as I’m prone to do, being pretty frugal on most days) and bought copies from half.com (this was before Amazon.com started doing their marketplace, so that’s a cheap place to get books now as well.)
The versions I found that were the cheapest turned out to be older editions, which wasn’t bad, but the clip art and such was definitely dated and looked like some of the stuff that might have turned up on [...]
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Here’s a movie of my kid and I making some colored salt…
As you can see, these are pretty easy to make. I know the big name guys like Discount School Supply sell this stuff inexpensively, but really, you can make it yourself and use the money you’d save on some colored butcher rolls. (Always seems like there’s never enough of that…)
Home Depot or Lowe’s will have sand in different grades (play sand is fine to use but white sand is way better) in giant bags… and generic salt is pretty cheap. If your center has a Sam’s account, go ahead and invest in the ginormous bag of salt for a project like this. Better yet, just have parents pick up a 30 cent tub of salt on their next grocery run and bring it in… that way each child has their own.
Salt
So, the [...]
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I’ve been reading a lot about square foot gardening lately. I think that this really makes sense and would be a great way to start a garden in a child care setting where you may not be able to “give up” much of your playground space.
I would advise that you make the boxes 4×2 however, to allow the small arms of children to reach their own squares.
If you buy the book, be sure and get the newer version. They’re both about the same price, so that’s not an issue… but the author has made some advances in the technique that are particularly welcome. For instance, in the past, he recommended that you dig down into your existing soil where the box is going to be. In the new version, this step is not necessary.
There’s a Yahoo! Group for this that I’ve been following, and almost nobody [...]
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