Preschool Powol Packets

Sharks are one of our favorite summer themes--we love Shark Week, we do lots of shark activities, study shark science, play shark games, and even enjoy learning about sharks!  I am putting all of our shark themed activities, games, and printable resources here so you can find them easily! We'll keep adding to them as we spend more time learning about sharks. be sure to let us me know what your favorites are! All of these activities, experiments, and printables are fun for preschoolers, and most of them will work great with older kids too!  There are quite a lot in this collection, so I'm dividing them into the following categories: Shark Games Shark Science Experiments Shark Art & Crafts More Shark Learning Shark Games:   Shark Shadow Matching Cards Shark Diet Game Shark Science Experiments:   How Sharks Float Experiment 1 How Sharks Float Experiment 2 Shark Art & Crafts: Shark in Ocean

Are you a preschool teacher, administrator, director, or owner? If so, then summer is the perfect time to obtain professional development training! Today I'm excited to feature the training programs that ChildCare Education Institute offers ECE professionals! They are perfect if you need to earn a CDA or really any professional development certification for that matter! In fact, their high-quality online training courses are applicable to anyone who works with young children, whether you're in a child care center, homeschool, Head Start, family child care, preschool, after-school programs, and more! I have personally taken several courses from ChildCare Education Institute (they have over 150 courses!) and loved every one! The website is easy to use, the courses are engaging and relevant, and customer service is super friendly. I have been recommending them to everyone! (I'm not the only one...99% of their users say they'd recommend them too!) It

One of our favorite summer themes is Sharks --  we totally started doing it years ago when I first found out about Shark Week, and it is one that I look forward to every year! This year we're kicking off with a fun craft! I was inspired by this newsprint shark , but I wanted to let my preschoolers design their own sharks and experiment with painting with watercolors and salt, so this variation was born! It is still wonderfully simple, gave the kids tons of room for personal expression, and let the kids experiment with some science concepts too! And, my 3-6 year olds did everything all by themselves. They LOVE the feeling of accomplishment when they make things independently! Simple Supplies: * watercolor paper (you can use cardstock or construction paper, but watercolor paper is really wonderful because it holds together so well, even when it's soaking wet! You can get notebooks with 20 sheets in them for very reasonable prices too!) * construction pa

Happy Monday! I love a new week, and I am excited to start this week by sharing a new freebie: a set of 4-piece preschool number puzzles! You can print these puzzles off and use them in a ton of different ways: * Solve them one at a time with your preschooler at a table! * Place each puzzle in an envelope at a number station. Label the envelopes, and let your preschoolers choose which ones to open and solve! * Glue one piece of a puzzle to a file folder to make a file folder game. Place the other pieces in an envelope and glue the envelope on to the file folder * Spread the pieces to 2-3 puzzles out, face-up, on a table, and match the correct puzzles together! * Or use them in any way you like! Not only do these puzzles build problem-solving skills, but they help reinforce number concepts by representing each number in four different ways: one cardinal number, a portion of ten, fingers, and the word written out! I would LOVE to see you use these

I have been looking for music lessons for my kids for some time, so when I discovered Preschool Prodigies I was both super excited and a little anxious--could they really be as amazing as they seem?! This article contains affiliate links. I think it is important to start with what I want in music lessons for my kids. I have been looking for something that... * fosters a love of music * teaches how to play an instrument * teaches how to read sheet music * introduces a variety of fun songs * trains my preschoolers in basic music theory And, in addition to all that, I want the lessons to be fun, engaging, and playful so that my kids are excited about music lessons . It would be especially cool if the curriculum included material for both my preschoolers and my other kids . I know it's a tall order...that's why I've been looking for so long! The amazing thing is... Preschool Prodigies really does do all of that! And more!! * Th