Seed Mosaic

Have you ever created a mosaic? A mosaic is a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, glass... or even SEEDS. As a former art teacher, mosaics are pretty simple to do, require just a few materials and always end up a success in my opinion. As an Experience Early Learning (EEL) Blogger, I receive the EEL Preschool Curriculum...

Growing Grass: A Sunlight Experiment

I'm talking about another experiment you can do with your littlest learners today! The kids and I are discovering all the treasures a garden holds with our Garden Treasures box from Experience Early Learning. Our first week was dedicated to learning all the things that go into planting a garden including Sunlight and Water. What better way to bring this concept home than with an experiment!? As...

Root Study Experiment

This month we are spending even more time outside as we cultivate, create, and get our hands dirty in the garden finding all sorts of treasures from worms to bunnies that like to nibble on lettuce leaves; this month is all about Garden Treasures with our Experience Early Learning box! As an Experience Early Learning (EEL) Blogger, I receive the EEL Preschool Curriculum in exchange for my...

The Purpose of a Garden

Why grow a garden besides for yourself?To strengthen relationships with your neighbors and your community.During the month of May we learned all about growing gardens with our Mother Goose Time preschool curriculum.  As I have been reflecting on gardening this month, I have come to realize having a garden is all about community and sharing your abundance.  What better way to get to know...

Homeschool Preschool: Learning the Value of Money

About 2 weeks ago, my 3.5 year old and I played a game, encouraged from our Growing Gardens unit from Mother Goose Time.  It has now become a highly requested game that we play for at least 30 minutes each time we play if not longer. It's called "Penny Produce Market."All you need are some vegetables, fruit, and some pennies.  The veggies and fruit could be real,...

DITL Homeschool: Preschooler and 5 Month Old

**This is a long post.  But it is exactly what happened last Friday.**I roll over and look at the clock. 7:03 am. I glance at the monitor.  Everett is still asleep in his crib, but Avaleigh's bed is empty."Are you on the floor," I say groggily.Up pops her little head like a wack-a-mole.  "Go tee-tee," I tell her.My husband, Jason, knows I was up 4 different times...

Preschool Garden Sensory Bin

I've been trying to build thematic sensory tubs each month that coincides with our theme from Mother Goose Time, our preschool curriculum.  This month it's all about the garden, so here's how we built ours and a few activities you can do with the bin.You will need:black beans, pinto beans, floral foam, fake flowers, little ceramic pots, floral cutters ($1 at Dollar Tree!) or scissors, a...

Preschool STEAM: Root Study

This month it's all about Growing Gardens with our Mother Goose Time preschool curriculum.Living in Texas you have to establish your garden bed by March or April because if you wait until May, it'll be to hot.   While we planted peppers, tomatoes, and zinnias in our garden, my neighbors planted all sorts of herbs, and root vegetables including carrots and green onions in their raised...

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...

How Does Your Garden Grow?

 What did we do before Pinterest?!?! It's amazing what you can find on there.  I know a lot of people can look on there and get overwhelmed especially with the comparison game, but for me Pinterest is like a visual encyclopedia.  I type something in, and boom, research is done.  Millions of ideas, thoughts, and visual representations are there to GUIDE me.  And that's the...