Nurturing Young Minds

assisting in preschoolers' discoveries

Christmas Word Trees

Inspired by “the alphabet tree” by Leo Lionni and “Small Medium & Large” by Jane Monroe Donovan we embarked on our tree creating adventure.

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Flipped Our Lids For Nature

We made some nature shadow boxes. Thank you once again (I’m sure you’ll read this often) to Teach Preschool for sharing their nature shadow boxes with the blogosphere. We used a slightly different process but they turned out great and the children loved them.

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Pumpkin Seed Turkeys

American Thanksgiving is fast approaching and the children are excited. I think part of the excitement is that the countdown to Christmas in our home doesn’t start until after the November holiday. We put a little spin on our turkeys this year.

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Alphabet Books

We are creating French Alphabet books. These of course could be made in any language. Both A & J now know their letters in French so I thought this would be a great and fun opportunity for them to expand their French vocabulary.

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“The Rainbow Fish” Fun

For her recent birthday A received the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.

I thought it would be fun to do a couple of activities surrounding this book. Here’s what A & J had fun making.

 

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