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Apple Pie Cloud Dough

Apple Pie Cloud Dough

Posted by on Oct 7, 2013 in Apple Themed Activities, Fall Crafts and Activities, Motor Skills, Outdoor Activities, Sensory Bins | 0 comments

I came across this recipe for cloud dough from Tinker Lab and figured my bugs and I should give it a try! Cloud dough is really fun to play with it. It has a unique, soft, texture that is airy yet moldable. I gave it a bit of a fall twist by adding two powdered, red chalk pieces (for colour), along with some cinnamon, nutmeg and clove spices to give it a yummy apple-pie scent (you could also just use apple pie spice). The cloud dough was so much fun to run our fingers through and to squish and mold, and the apple pie scent added an extra lovely sensory element!

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Apple Math Game

Apple Math Game

Posted by on Oct 1, 2013 in Apple Themed Activities, Fall Crafts and Activities, Math Activities | 0 comments

I adapted the Apple Literacy Game we played a few days ago, so M could practice his addition and subtraction skills as well. We used the same tree I painted on our sliding glass door, using tempera paint, and the same apple templates printed off onto red cardstock. Instead of writing a sight word, or a letter onto the apples, I left them blank so M could use them as counters.

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Apple Literacy Game

Apple Literacy Game

Posted by on Oct 1, 2013 in Apple Themed Activities, Fall Crafts and Activities, Literacy Activities, Preschool Letter Activities | 0 comments

I’m always looking for fun and unique ways to engage my bugs in literacy. M is at the age where he can start working on memorizing sight words, while B is still at the beginning stages of identifying his letters. For M, I use the Dolch sight word list, which is a list of high frequency words children encounter in age specific texts. The goal is for children to memorize these high frequency sight words in order to improve their overall reading fluency.

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