This post on what is a preschool curriculum is actually inspired by a post I read about curriculum blog hopping and I realized how confused so many people are about preschool, kindergarten and any early childhood curriculum’s. The biggest problem I have is with the traditional curriculum’s that seem to think that teaching the ABC’s…
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Kindergarten Art: Adding an Exciting Art Center
Kindergarten and preschool and art are almost synonymous. Which kindergarten, preschool or any early childhood education classroom or home school program does not have some kind of art on a daily basis. You may have seen my other blog called educational art thoughts where I present all kinds of educational art activities and thoughts about…
Kindergarten Curriculum: Using Activity Boxes
Kindergarten curriculum’s are pretty varied and there are many wonderful activities that are done in really good kindergartens. Using activity boxes in your kindergarten curriculum is something I came across in an article when going through old material I had. It was an article that originally came out of Young Children about using boxes or…
Blocks Play and Learning Combined
Blocks and block play as discussed in the previous posting, block building for early childhood education is very varied and can be enjoyed at home or in a school environment. In the previous post we talked about stages of block play, presenting the blocks, rules of block play and clean up tips. In this post…
Block Building for Early Childhood Education
Block building is NOT just for early childhood, kindergartner and nursery classrooms. As you can see above, here are some old unit blocks that I still have in my home from when my children were little. As you can see they are quite old and well used. I had been an early childhood teacher for…