During the first week of school with Kinders I like to focus on the numbers 1 to 5. Most children are familiar with these, at least in the sense of being able to count to 5 (although perhaps not using English). So while I am formally and informally assessing their general mathematical understandings our lessons […]
Skip Counting to 10 Flower Craftivity
Children LOVE skip counting. When they are so used to counting one number at a time skip counting feels a bit like cheating and mastering it fills them with pride. Of course, it’s one thing to be able to parrot the numbers by rote and another to understand the concept behind it. This Flower Power craftivity […]
Creating Night Noises: Virtual Book Club for Kids
I love sharing Mem Fox books with my students and for this hands-on, experimental activity we used her book Night Noises. In this story Lily Laceby and her dog, Butch Aggie, are resting at home by the fire on a cold, stormy evening. A series of noises from outside have Butch Aggie worried but Lily […]
Why I Love my Sound Box for Early Learners
When I started teaching music in my early childhood classes, one of my first projects was to create a Sound Box… a box full of sounds. It sits innocuously in one corner of my room until it’s ‘play’ time or ‘let’s experiment’ time and then it springs to life: loud sounds, soft sounds, whirry, shaky, […]