Activities
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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,…
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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…