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Chinese Activities for Kids

31 Chinese Learning Activities for Kids This post contains enough Chinese learning activities for kids to keep things fun and interesting all month long.  Your child will look forward each day to doing one of these easy Chinese learning activities with you! Learning Chinese is easiest and most effective if children learn as babies and …

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Chinese New Year Restaurant Play

This post contains affiliate links. I recieve a small commission from Amazon at no additional cost to you. Chinese Restaurant Dramatic Play Center Do you ever find it difficult to know how to incorporate culture and social studies into a preschool classroom?  The challenge of making culture, geography and social studies meaningful and relevant to …

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Fire Fighter Dramatic Play

Dramatic Play Fire Station This post may contain affiliate links.  See disclosure page for full details.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqYSJhBdCYs A fire station is one of our favorite dramatic play centers.  It can be used any time of year, but we love using it with our Health and Safety month.  During our Health and Safety unit we study …

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5 Senses Activities for Preschoolers

Subscribe to Our Newsletter to Receive Ideas and Freebies A Preschool Guide to Teaching the 5 Senses Why teach the 5 senses? Students thrive in environments where they use their senses to learn!  Elements of sensory learning and this theme also cover multiple content areas.  Practice colors, use tacticle and kinesthetic learning tools, and add …

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How to Help Your Kids Love Books and Reading

Have you ever walked in to a room to find your child quietly flipping through endless books? Believe it or not, I find this all. the. time. with both my two and my four-year-old. They absolutely love books. Here are my top tips for helping your kids be book-lovers too! 1. Create a Literary-rich environment …

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My Top 16 Picture Books to Read with 3-5 Year Olds

These are my own opinions (after reading about a million different books) about which books are the best overall picture books that are fun for children to read with parents or teachers. This post contains affiliate links – see disclosure page for full details. Clicking the picture of each book will take you straight to …

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