Counting to 100 Marble Art

This is a great art project by itself or to practice counting. Also good for the 100 days of school.
See the whole post on this link.

Number Line Made With Seeds

Having the students make a number line is more meaningful for them and a lot of fun. We used seeds to make it. This activity is Reggio inspired, of course :)

Read the full post at https://demelloteaching.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/beautiful-number-line-made-with-seeds/

One Hundred Days 'Pasta Art'

This is a fun activity to do for the Hundred Days of School. 
See complete post HERE.

Shape Friends

One of the activities I like to do about shapes is to ask my students if they can represent themselves with shapes. They are invited to reflect upon shapes in our bodies and after we decided which shapes we would use they create a ‘shape friend’ using pre-cut colored shapes. The students can create their ‘shape friend’ any way they want. After we discuss which shapes are in the human body I pre-cut the shapes as they are 3 and 4 years old and cutting is not my goal for this learning experience. Hands can be squares, triangles, or circles, bodies can be rectangles or triangles, they can use yarn or shredded paper for hair and so on. The folded rectangles for legs was my suggestions as the students previously showed interest in folding strips of paper. 

Favorite Color Graph

Children love to make handprints and this is another project that uses handprints and a great way to graph favorite colors.

Ask each child to choose a favorite color.

Trace the child’s hand and ask the child to color the hand. Most of my students chose the “rubbing crayon" technique.

After all the hands were ready I placed them on a table to see the kids reaction in the morning of the next day. The children were looking for their handprints, placing their hands on them, comparing hand sizes and talking about the colors. I decided to leave the handprints there during the day for the kids to explore.

Later when I looked at the table this is what I saw. They had sorted the hands by color. They were also counting them.

 At last the graph is ready! 

Making Play Dough!

Play Dough is a MUST HAVE material in any early childhood classroom.