Reggio farm provocations

We're celebrating Harvest this week with some seasonal sensory play. We've had great fun with this farm play dough, just perfect for sowing & harvesting crops! This is a great activity if you have a variety of coloured play dough that's become a little mixed! We blended our various play dough together until our colours became a nice muddy brown colour! Of course, you could just use brown play dough. First, we explored our newly made farm play dough with a tractor, which was a great way to…

What Mama doesn't love farm crafts for preschoolers in the spring? I wanted to share some of my favourite farm crafts and activities today. But first—guess what's new over at our farm? We are building a barn! Yep, that's right, we don't actually have one yet. Our ladies (now 18 of them, with their trusty

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Three Little Pigs story loose parts, provocation table. Twigs, bricks. Montessori, loose parts, story extenders

Hi friends! I'm back to share some photos of what we have been up to in our classroom this week! 1. SENTENCE JENGA I have a high group of kiddos this year where most of my kids know all of their letters and sounds (even the JKs) and are working on sight words and reading sentences. So I decided to try this centre out to challenge the students who needed more than letter work! Students are invited to make a sentence with the jenga blocks and record their sentences on the whiteboard. They are…

This week we had a little fun down on the farm in Tot School. This was such a fun theme with lots of engaging activities to explore! Here were our plans for Farm week: And here are the details of each activity: Our favorite farm books for the week were:Farm by Mary NovickMrs. Wishy Washy […]

Spring Activities for Kids - Mud Paint Recipe for Play I'm so excited to kick off a month long Spring Activities for Kids series...

Investigating seeds in a preschool farm theme and makes a great science tray. Investigating seeds would also work in a spring theme or gardening theme.

I love loose parts. and I love lists. It was only a matter of time before I combined everything into a loose parts list! I've been collecting for years and now have a lot of the basics stashed away for play and learning. That being said I am ALWAYS on the lookout for a new treasure to add to my loose parts lists. In case you are like me, I have compiled a loose parts list for all the best finds...and the list will continue to grow as I find more!