Thumbs and Plums

leslie February 29, 2020 2 Comments
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. Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating a piece of pie. He stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said, "What a good boy am I!" What is it about kids...

Nursery Rhyme Math

leslie February 25, 2020 0 Comments
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 never learned the rhyme "Hot Cross Buns." Maybe because I never learned how to play an instrument... I don't know. So when it was in our Experience Early...

Itsy Bitsy Lessons

leslie February 13, 2020 0 Comments
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. We are all familiar with the nursery rhyme of The Itsy Bitsy Spider, but have you ever thought of it as a lesson in Perseverance? Read it again and think on...

Homeschooling when Sickness Strikes

leslie February 10, 2020 0 Comments
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. We had the flu this week. Homeschooling with sickness is tough, but here are a few lessons I learned this week that really helped us survive. Get Grace. Give...

I Can Read: Baby Animals

leslie January 31, 2020 0 Comments
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 When I thought about what my family would be like before even becoming a mother, I always imagined reading aloud. I could see myself and my little one cuddled...

Exploring Sounds with Little Kids

leslie January 25, 2020 0 Comments
Observing our surroundings, being able to listen, and discern the sounds around us are skills that take time. Children need to know what is going on around them and be observant, especially in this day and age. As technology creeps and ours heads bow so often toward a screen in our hand, we lose what is going on around us and that is when we are in danger. This week we dove into how "Animals...

Playdough Pets

leslie January 21, 2020 0 Comments
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. What do you get when you are talking to kiddos about adopting pets and add in some playdough? You get their very own Playdough Pets! This month is all about Baby...

Tangram Lessons

leslie January 16, 2020 2 Comments
Have you ever played with tangrams? After our lesson yesterday with them, I have found them to be quite challenging but oh so rewarding to work with! So many possiblities! Our Baby Animals box from Experience Early Learning came with a set of tangrams and the shape cards to help children build animals. I love how this engages math principles of shapes and patterns, engineering principles of...

All About Mammal Mommas

leslie December 31, 2019 1 Comment
Tomorrow is a new year. New month. New Decade. This week we have new classmates with us all week long. All this newness calls for starting a new box of Experience Preschool, one all about Baby Animals. Want to peek inside the box? Check out this post. We started our day with Circle Time where we add to our calendar, sing songs about the days of the week and month, discuss our topic poster, and...

Peek Inside: Baby Animals Box

leslie December 24, 2019 1 Comment
I know I know... it's Christmas Eve. It's the holidays and we know how fast time flies especially this last week of December. January will be here in a blink. Fortunately we received our January Experience Preschool box early (and I opened it and explored it early) , and I thought it might be helpful to show you it before January. So without futher ado- here is our January box which is all about...