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Cookie Shop Play
Does your child like to play in the toy kitchen? Kitchen is a fun place to play. Children love to cook things in the kitchen and serve them to their peers.😊 And I think lots of different kinds of toy food are one of the factors that excite children in the kitchen. Today I want…
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Easter Egg Decorating
I’m writing this post a night before Easter. Tomorrow morning, I’ll participate in the virtual Easter Sunday mass. Are you celebrating Easter? Today I had a joyful time decorating my eggs.☺️ Did you have time to decorate some eggs with your child? Easter egg decorating is a classic activity for children (and teachers) and I…
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Easter Family Activities
*Mini Class video is coming at the end of the post. A week until Easter! We want to play with some Easter-related stuff, right?! (Shhh….. we will decorate real Easter eggs next week.) For this week, I suggest playing with paper Easter eggs. Huh? Paper Easter eggs? What are they? As you know, I love…
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Making Skin Tones || Book “The Skin You Live In”
*Mini class video is coming at the end of this post.* Teaching and promoting diversity in early childhood is very important. I looked through some diversity books for toddlers and preschoolers and this is one of the good ones. “The Skin You Live in” by Michael Tyler. This book does a good job in explaining…
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Green Play Day
*Miniclass video is coming at the end of the post* St.Patrick’s Day is coming and we are already seeing a lot of St.Patrick’s Day activities on the internet. Making rainbows, leprechauns, pot of gold, shamrocks and so on. I think it’s good to know about different cultural holidays whether I celebrate them in my house…
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Make Letters with Your Body
*Mini Class video is at the end of this post.* Do you sometimes find your child not knowing what to do with her/his energy and just starting to run around the house? It’s good to have physical exercise time everyday, however, that is not always easy, right? It’s not always possible to go for a…
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Imaginative Play with a Perfect Square || Book “Perfect Square”
I love children books that give artistic inspirations with either contents or illustrations. The book “Perfect Square” shows how a perfect square can be transformed into many different things and introduces different ways to be broken apart. 🙃 The realistic illustrations excite the readers and make them want to play with their own perfect squares. 😃☺️😃…
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How Are You Using Alphabet Flashcards?
Do you have alphabet flashcards at home? How are you using them? I think alphabet flashcards can be a useful tool to teach letters to young children in general. But how you use these cards will determine if your child will really benefit from them or not. As a teacher who follows play-based and inquiry-based…
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Watercolour Heart
How was your Valentine’s Day? Did you do anything special with family? I was planning to have a nice dinner and dessert with my husband, but I started not feeling well from the morning of 14th and I didn’t have much energy to do anything. So, it was just like a regular day. 😐 Or…
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Tape Resist Painting for Valentine’s Day
There are words and phrases that are commonly said and heard on Valentine’s Day. Love, family, friend, friendship, be mine, I love you, heart, love letter, card, red, pink, purple, kiss, hugs etc. And we can choose the simple ones among those many and create an opportunity to talk about letters. For toddlers and preschoolers,…