Preschool: Ostrich Activities

Wow what a month! Since COVID kept us at home, we actually managed to get through a whole box from Experience Early Learning in a month! That never happens for us. We always have a few bags left. As a Experience Early Learning (EEL) Blogger, I receive the EEL Preschool Curriculum in exchange for my honest opinions and authentic stories about our experiences using the curriculum. All opinions...

Building Birds with Kids

This post may contain affiliate links. We saw our first bluebird EVER last week! It was absolutely stunning and was only outside our window a few seconds before it was gone. We have Blue Jays that have built nests around our home. In fact, we had one outside our window for over a minute a month or so ago and really had time to observe and take in its' beauty, but bluebirds are a rare treat. This...

Creating Wing Art

As a Experience Early Learning (EEL) Blogger, I receive the EEL Preschool Curriculum in exchange for my honest opinions and authentic stories about our experiences using the curriculum. All opinions and thoughts are completely my own  I. Love. Invitations. To. Create. In a world full of Pinterest and internet images, we can get bogged down on making things look like the picture expecting...

Pine Cone Bird Feeder

 We are Nature Detectives for the month of July.Our preschool curriculum from Mother Goose Time had a whole week devoted to trees: Climbing Tress, Building with Trees, Painting Trees, Counting in Trees, and Writing with Trees.On our Building with Trees day, we built a bird feeder from a tree part- a pine cone!We've made pine cone bird feeders before, but this one was the best one...

Birdwatching

This Bird and Egg Unit is my favorite so far this year yall.If you've been keeping up with us, you will know that I blogged about how Sweet Pea and I built a Bird Sanctuary the other day outside our dining room window so we could become birdwatchers.  We continued our transformation by reading the book The Birdwatchers, making binoculars from paper cups (provided by Mother Goose Time),...

Building a Bird Sanctuary

I've been so inspired this past month by our Birds and Eggs unit by Mother Goose Time.We built our own nest that my girl loves, which you can read about here.  In fact, she convinced Daddy to sit in it with her and read together yesterday.  Wish I had grabbed a picture. Yesterday, I taught the 2-4 year old crafts at our local co-op and I had the kids make birdfeeders from toilet...

Shaving Cream Paper Eggs

Easter is around the corner, and you know what that means...EGG DECORATING.This month our Birds and Eggs unit came with a "Who's in the Nest?" attendance tracker. Since it is just me and Sweet Pea, I decided to modify the nest to become a "How many are in the Nest? daily game for Sweet Pea. First we had some Egg decorating to do.The supplies you need are:-shaving cream-food coloring or...

Building a Reading Nest

The month of April we are studying Birds and Eggs. I have to admit, when I first heard the name of the unit, I thought it wouldn't be that much fun, but boy was I wrong.It's only Day 1 and Sweet Pea is LOVING IT!  Maybe it's the fact that her vocabulary is blowing up, or that she's been much better playing by herself, but whatever it is, she is absolutely loving this theme!The...