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Getting Creative Outside! – Preschool Thursdays with Marilyn Boyer

With the colder days behind us (hopefully) are you looking for ideas and activities for the kids to be able to enjoy the beautiful sunshine days? My preschoolers loved to play with playdough outside...

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Helping In The Kitchen – Mondays with Marilyn

Each week I chose a different child to plan a meal, help shop for meal and then help to cook the meal. It was a great way to teach them nutrition, wise shopping practices and the actual skills of...

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Summer Fun! – Mondays with Marilyn

Take your playdo outside this summer. My kids absolutely LOVED to play with playdo. We have lots of fun molds, plastic knives, and tools, farm animal molds and cake molds. We had a small round kids...

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Follow Their Dreams, Until… ~ Mondays with Marilyn

When you see an interest crop up in one of your children, find the resources needed for them to pursue it. Make it a part of their “curriculum” and let them pursue what sparks their interest. Maybe...

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Dig, Dig, Dig It’s What We Like To Do! ~ Preschool Thursdays

Preschoolers LOVE to have their own little flower bed or even pot of flowers to put on the deck or porch. It’s a fun trip to the store to pick our petunias or impatiens, home to plant, and then the...

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Out of the Mouths of Babes – Preschool Thursdays

I’ve often thought I’d like to write a book of the cute things preschoolers say. They are so honest and often take life so literally. I made a practice of writing the “cutest” things in their baby...

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Spelling idea! ~ Tuesdays Teaching Tips

Give your child some playdo to spread flat. Then use rubber stamp letters to spell three or four letter words, leaving out the middle letters for them to find and press into the playdo. Ex. C_T, D_G,...

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That Looks Delicious!!! ~ Tuesday Teaching Tips

Learn to think creatively when deciding how to keep your child’s interest for school. For instance, consider having your daughter begin her own recipe folder or box for handwriting this year. Instead...

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Oh Your Mark, Get Set… Preschool Thursdays with Marilyn Boyer

This is the time of year I always prepared for my preschoolers “school” time. I would cut shapes out of construction paper and fill a container for the little ones to “glue” down onto construction...

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Don’t be afraid to think outside of the box ~ Mondays with Marilyn

If you find something in your curriculum that strikes the interest of one of your kids, expand upon it. Get a whole biography of some person mentioned in their history book, visit a veteran and learn...

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