by Lorrie Holmes
Children enjoy singing catchy spring songs that breathe life into this colourful season – especially those offering actions and visual prompts! Our fun Spring Music Lesson includes favourites focus on blooming flowers, insects, sunny weather, and outdoor activities.
From The Itsy Bitsy Spider to I’m a Little Teapot, Bringing Home A Baby Bumblebee to I Love Bugs, The Ants Go Marching and of course, the infamous The Garden Song by Charlotte Diamond, each of these sing songs tell a fun story that include lyrics that can easily be acted out by the children, resulting in a deeper level of understanding in and appreciation for springtime – the season of new beginnings.
Teaching kids about love and kindness can be explored through story characters in thought and heart provoking simple picture books.
by Lorrie Holmes
HERE ARE 6 PICKS OF KIDS BOOKS ABOUT LOVE AND KINDNESS!
GETTING KIDS EXCITED ABOUT SCIENCE BY ADDING PLAY TO THEIR EXPERIMENT!
Engaging children in the wonders of science became quite a special experience when adding the excitement of play into this experiment. This fun kids science experiment included scientific concepts that were demonstrated in a highly energy collaborative manner by rescuing the children’s favourite LEGO Frozen figures from the ice. Lots of group discussions and ideas were shared as possible solutions using simple household items like warm water, salt, and baking soda. This experiment not only entertained our young scientists but also educated them about how ice is formed and how it melts, making it an ideal choice to engage these young learners as a group.
Are you looking for a fun playlist of songs about love & kindness to use in your classroom this Valentine’s Day?
THE LEAVES ARE FALLING ON THE GROUND, THEY’RE FALLING ALL AROUND
There is something so cozy and comforting about the leaves changing colours in the fall and our Music & Language Arts Lesson, The Leaves Are Falling, offers so much opportunity for enjoying this fall theme with music, movement, and through expressive words using poetry and riddles.
Today, I am so excited to be sharing these super playful activities for kids from PreK right up to Grade 2, depending on the interest levels of the students and their abilities to follow along.
Did you know that in Montessori classrooms the preparation for writing starts long before we ask the child to hold a pencil? Learning to write in a Montessori Preschool & Kindergarten (Casa) classroom offers an important and enriching experience that lays a solid foundation for a child’s educational journey.
When I first became a Kindermusik teacher many years ago, I asked myself where to begin with introducing littles to basic music principles such as pitch, dynamics, tempo, rhythm and solfege. Once I was ready to write my first lesson plan, I became a bit nervous. Because I had started off with teaching parent participation classes, I asked myself, as a parent, how I would like music to be introduced to my kids, then I started to relax as the answer became very obvious to me!
This Valentine’s Day, we have decided to share some Gifts Of Friendship with you told through the voices of these children’s songs. We are starting off with the duo – Bobs & Lolo. Their partnership did not begin as a business arrangement but rather, blossomed from a lifelong friendship that started at the tender age of eight, when these two met at Girl Guides. There, they shared their love for nature and music, and discovered how much they had in common. Of course, there were a lot of songs they shared around the campfires! The photo above depicts these two getting ready for a high school talent show! Yes, they also went through high school together and have been there for each other throughout all their milestones in life.
They have always been there to support each other’s dreams. After going off and pursing their own post secondary careers, they were able to come back together with their degrees in education, and combine their experiences as both teachers and child performers. Now these BFF’s travel the world together performing their own songs to children and their families – living the dream of any child performer.
We have always had each other and for that, we feel so grateful.
BOBS & LOLO
No two children are exactly the same, and neither are any two early childhood educators. Each offers their own unique teaching style & philosophy – and what might be one’s strength could be another one’s weakness.This is why an early learning hub that supports each educator’s needs is so valuable to our industry!
Written by Lorrie Holmes
The more fulfilled our educators are, the more they have to give to our children and what could be more ideal than that, which is why we are so excited to introduce you this new Early Childhood Educators Hub – to set up these educators with success, much like the kiddos in their care. This is why we are so excited to introduce you all to this new early learning hub!
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