Tag: experiencepreschool

Pattern Block Bugs

leslie May 18, 2020 0 Comments
This post contains affiliate links. I loved pattern blocks as a kid. I remember creating giant mandela patterns on the classroom floor on those rainy recess days. Our Experience Early Learning (EEL) box sent us pattern blocks this month and we now have quite a collection! By having a good variety, all of us could play together, design together, and get inspired by each other's work, and EVEN...

Exploring Ants with Preschoolers

leslie May 9, 2020 0 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links. It's a new month which means a new theme of learning from Experience Early Learning. This month is all about bugs! I have to admit, I used to hate those creepy crawlies, but after this past year of Exploring Nature with Children and trying to show my kids how to love and enjoy the great outdoors, I have found more respect for bugs. (still not a fan of wasps...

Preschool: Ostrich Activities

leslie April 30, 2020 0 Comments
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

leslie April 13, 2020 0 Comments
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...

Plant Life Study: Algae

leslie March 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  Pond life is the perfect exploration for preschoolers. So much life in the pond, not just the abundant variety of animal life, but the plant life as well. This...

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...

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...

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...