Welcome to another week of the Early Childhood Education Team posts! This Week we are focusing on activities to teach the numbers 0-5. If you’re tot schooling or home preshcooling, this is a prefect time to fill up you lesson plan book! Don’t forget to pin these posts for future lesson plan ideas, as well!…
Hopscotch is a great activity for building gross motor skills, counting, and summer fun! As I thought about the game, I wondered how I could adjust it to work on fine motor skills since that is something we are always trying to improve. While my boys can kick, jump, bend, and run with ease,…
{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} After receiving the Nuby iMonster bowl and Snack Keeper for review purposes, my boys have really been interested in reading and doing silly monster activities! Our last activity (Monster Art And Math) was inspired by the book Monster Math. This activity is, once again, inspired by…
{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} I can be pretty neglectful when it comes to doing math activities with the kids. At the end of the day I look at my lesson plans (just a check list to keep me intentional about covering different topics throughout our week), and I noticed I…
This post contains affiliate links When you were younger, what was your favorite preschool center? A few of my favorites were the listening center (with headphones and books on tape), the dramatic play center (and of course I always wanted to get there first so I could grab the heels and play mom), or…
{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} First off, let me say DO NOT TRY TO DO THIS ACTIVITY IF YOUR LITTLE ONES STILL PUT SMALL ITEMS IN THEIR MOUTHS. There. Now that that is off my chest I can go on. As I cleaned out my old teaching supplies the…
{For your convenience, this contains affiliate links} If you follow Munchkins and Moms on Instagram, then you might have seen a sneak peak of this post a couple weeks back. It was totally unplanned and I was caught off guard with how much both of my boys really enjoyed it! Supplies: Play dough…
{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} We are just now starting to explore games with my oldest son. We started by making up our own “Gone Fishing” game. It’s been a great way to practice skills such as turn-taking, social skills, and rule-following. Games also give my munchkin the opportunity to play while learning…
{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} In preschool, the bugs and spiders unit is typically done in the Spring… but I’m impatient and didn’t want to wait that long to get this unit started in our own preschool co-op! I already shared our Spiderweb Web Craft and am ready to share another activity…
Hi everyone- I’m back!!!! I know my dear friends have been asking when I would be coming back to blogging. Let me tell you I missed it. A day didn’t go by that it didn’t cross my mind. And each activity I did with my boys made me think of how much I wanted to share…
