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Secret Message Scavenger Hunt
How is the letter study going in your house?🥸 What we actually want to do about alphabet with our toddlers and preschoolers is just playing with alphabet and being familiarized with them. So this week, I want to introduce another fun letter game! Repetition is important for young children, you know, right? You need to…
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Think & Share: Daily Self-Esteem Activity
Improving self-esteem is an important part of our lives. With high self-esteem, we can get back up after falling and continue trying to reach our goals. With high self-esteem, we can protect ourselves from other people’s judgement and live our own beautiful lives. Children with positive self-esteem are more confident and more likely to be…
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Making a Letter Pointer
Last week, I suggested talking with your child about the days of the week and the months of the year with a calendar. Did you try it? Are you still not sure if you want to have the calendar time daily or not? I will give you one more reason today why you want to…
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Calendar Time with Toddlers and Preschoolers
One of the regular activities at preschool or nursery school is talking about calendar. I know that there is controversy surrounding the calendar time, but I think there are many useful concepts that we can use to help children learn. It’s all about understanding our children well and making each activity and play appropriate for…
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Holiday Card
How did you celebrate the New Year? I know. Most of the things are the same. Pandemic is still here and we still cannot go outside or meet our families and friends comfortably. It’s sad but we have to go through it, ………right? So how about sharing some warm greetings with people we care about,…
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Draw The Land of Sweets
Here is my second post about the nutcracker story. The nutcracker story is so Christmassy and magical and I don’t want to let it go after just one activity.😌 If you didn’t read my first nutcracker post, I introduced a children book about the nutcracker story. I recommend this book if you want to introduce…
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Paper Christmas Tree
There are many ways to make a Christmas tree as a holiday craft activity. Which one is easy and nice? We want to make that one! No.😏 Not for me and not for my students. You know what I think important when designing an activity. What matters is the process, not the product. The tree…
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Letter to Santa
Only about two weeks until Christmas?! I can’t believe how fast the time is passing. But it is joyful feeling in December, isn’t it? Is your child waiting for Santa? How has s/he been this year? Did the elf on the shelf come to your house?😉 What is your child wishing for Christmas? What does…
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The Nutcracker Activities
Last weekend, I watched the movie “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” on Netflix. Christmas time is the most wonderful time of the year for me and I wanted to start having some Christmas feelings since we are finally entering into December. I liked the movie. It has lots of magical scenes and fantasy elements.…
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5 Days of Holiday Workshop
The holiday season is here! Although we are very sad about that a lot of us won’t be able to spend the holidays with families and friends due to the pandemic, we can still remember the holiday spirit and celebrate it. I believe the true spirits of holiday are joyfulness, gratitude, giving, sharing and generosity,…