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Filed under: Featured, Fieldtrip Suggestions, Teaching Ideas
Ocean Adventure Field Trip for All Ages
by Cheryl Golangco on Mar 6th, 2013
I first went to Ocean Adventure in Subic back when I was still in high school. Back then, Ocean Adventure only had the sea lion and dolphin show. Today however, they’ve added 2 more attractions that will surely make both kids and adult not only have fun, but appreciate nature even more.
After roughly 8 years… I’m back! This time however, my friends and I got to spend the night at the Camayan Beach Resort! If you’re going to Subic...
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Filed under: Classroom Designs, Featured, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Tales, Tips for Parents
Safe Magnetic Boards for the Preschool Classroom
by Cheryl Golangco on Feb 2nd, 2013
We preschool teachers have a lot on our plate and it can sometimes be difficult to keep track of things. We need to give out home works, prepare lesson plans, give out memos, prepare for events, etc. A cork board in the classroom is really becoming a necessity! I however, refuse to use one in fear that one of my students would play with it and hurt themselves with the thumbtacks or pushpins.
Well, guess what? I found the perfect solution! My bro...
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Filed under: Christmas, Classroom Designs, Featured, Holiday crafts, Teaching Ideas
Classroom Fireplace Decor for Christmas
by Cheryl Golangco on Dec 24th, 2012
We didn't have a Christmas tree nor any big Christmas lanterns, so where could we put the gifts on Christmas Day? Hmm.... why not build a fireplace!
What you will need:
White Cartolina or Bond Paper
Brown, red and black paint
Paint Brush
Scissors
Red, orange and yellow paper
Black cartolina
What you will do:
Step 1: To get that "wood" effect, we painted on white cartolina using the colors Re...
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Filed under: Featured, Fieldtrip Suggestions, Schools and Learning Centers, Science Experiments, Teaching Ideas, Tips for Parents
First Robotics Learning Center: Math, Science and Engineering for Preschoolers
by Cheryl Golangco on Oct 11th, 2012
Kids love playing with robots! They play with a variety of these each day. They play with simple robots like toy cars to more complicated robots that walk, talk or even fly. The world of science fascinates them without any of us even realizing how deep this fascination could go.
I personally am very much fascinated with robots, however, playing with them and learning to make them are two very different things. The idea of learning robotics is ...
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Filed under: Teaching Seminars, Tips for Parents, Workshops and Seminars
Multiple Intelligences: What’s the Best Way to Teach Children?
by Cheryl Golangco on Sep 25th, 2012
Each of us learns differently. Some like reading books to learn more about a specific topic, others prefer the audiobook, and still others prefer to watch a play. There’s nothing wrong with either of these methods, we simply enjoy different methods because we each learn differently. Thing is, schools focus too much on reading, writing and numbers that the other learning styles are often ignored.
For those of you who are unaware of it...
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Filed under: Teaching Ideas, Teaching Seminars, Teaching Tales, Tips for Parents
Learning About Neurodiversity at the Superkids Conference 2012
by Cheryl Golangco on Sep 25th, 2012
The Superkids Conference is an interactive Conference and Exhibition on Early Childhood Education for teachers and parents alike. It takes place once a year and has been happening since 2010 if I remember correctly. Every year, the Superkids Conference just keeps getting bigger and better. I’m so glad I got to be part of it this year!
The main speaker this year was Dr. Thomas Armstrong - an author, speaker and educational consultan...
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Filed under: Animals and Insects, Featured, Reading and Language, Stories, Teaching Ideas
Codley and the Big Storm Book Review
by Cheryl Golangco on Sep 14th, 2012
As preschool teachers, we can’t help but grab every book we see with a catchy title or a cool cover page. I personally am always on a quest to find the best books so I can read the story to my students based on our theme. As long as the illustration is good, I always find a way to use it with my toddlers. I can always change the words a bit for their level.
A few months ago, I was sent an e-book of the book Codley and the Big Storm...
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Filed under: Colors and Shapes, Featured, Hands can feel, Messy art, Playdough, Science Experiments, Senses and Body Parts, Teaching Ideas
Scented Playdough: Sense of Smell
by Cheryl Golangco on Sep 5th, 2012
It's always fun to learn about our senses through a variety of experiments, wouldn't you agree? For our unit on the sense of smell, one of the activities we did with the kids was to create our own scented play doughs! Oh what fun the kids had, they were so proud of their works and couldn't believe they made it themselves. Who know play dough was so easy to make?
I got the recipe from eHow.com but I didn't follow it to the dot, I just adjusted ...
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Filed under: Ears for hearing, Senses and Body Parts, Teaching Ideas
Listening Ears: Big Ears for the Little Kids
by Cheryl Golangco on Aug 20th, 2012
Learning about the five senses can be A LOT of fun! There are just SO MANY activities that can be done!
On our lesson about the ears, we decided to create our own pair of LISTENING EARS! So instead of just pretending to “put on” their listening ears during story time, we actually got to try it for real! Once the kids get use to the idea, it becomes a fun way to recall our classroom rules!
What you will need:
Big ...
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Filed under: Classroom Designs, First Day of School, Teaching Ideas
Back to School: Classroom Design
by Cheryl Golangco on Aug 6th, 2012
Another school year just begun here in the Philippines, but it’s just about to begin in other parts of the world! It’s tough getting started with all the classroom decorations, bulletin board and the like. So here are some of the stuff we did in our preschool classrooms!
Preschool Classroom Door Decoration
It’s important to make kids feel welcome on the first day of school, putting their pictures on the door makes th...
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