Check out some of the best ways I've found to incorporate daily preschool math concepts!
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Shape Detectives: Learning Shapes!
Here's a fun way to explore shapes with your young child! Become a shape detective!
Foaming JACK-O’-LANTERN Experiment
Do you have a leftover Jack-O-Lantern at home? Let your future chemist or biologist perform an experiment before you trash it! We recently made our spooky Jack-O-Lantern's foam from the mouth and the kids LOVED it. If you want to try this at home, here is what we did! What you need: - 1 cup… Continue reading Foaming JACK-O’-LANTERN Experiment
Play Ecosystem Jenga!
Play 'Ecosystem Jenga' with your kids to help them learn the fragility of our ecosystem and how each member relies on the other to survive on planet earth!
Salt Dough Fossil Digs!
To celebrate our week on paleontology, my little #paleontologists helped me make salt dough fossils!
Jaw Biting Math! Teaching More Than and Less Than…
Understanding math language is so important to future confidence and success in math! Read more on how I taught the concept of 'more than' and 'less than'.
Easy, Colorful Cornstarch Painting & Science!
Have a blast painting with your little chemists and learn some science in the process!
STEAM Activity: Create Your Own Melted Crayon Art!
I've been wanting to do this STEAM melted crayon art project for a long time and we finally did it! Check out our fun crayon art and see how you can make your own!
Recycle Crayons into New Shapes!
Do you have lots of crayons that need to be recycled? You can recycle them yourself in a fun new useable shape! Crayons are made out of paraffin wax. When heated, the wax reaches its melting point and melts into the new shape of the mold you choose. Once they harden... ta da! A new crayon shape!
Bring the Color in with Crayon Sun Catchers!
We love crayons in our home and use them daily! We have been collecting our broken crayons for several months and we decided to use them for some fun STEAM projects at home. One of our recent projects was inspired by the book in my Reading STEMs Learning Series entitled, 'The Crayon Man'. We created these fun STEAM sun catchers with crayon shavings and wax paper!