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Glue & Salt Painted Pumpkins: A Fun NO PREP Fall Project!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Here is a fun art project for fall that takes (almost) no prep at all, is super fascinating for most children!  It's glue and salt painting with watercolor paints, and in this case, we painted a pumpkin to celebrate Halloween!  Another great thing about this project is that it incorporates a bit of science in it, since the children get to see how the salt absorbs the water, and then how the colors diffuse and travel up the salt cove...
   

Spiders and Pumpkins and Bats. Oh, my!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ What a BUSY WEEK!!!!  It was Red Ribbon Week and we had activities and assemblies, plus we are getting ready for Halloween.  AND we are also trying to get all of our testing done because we need to be ready to conference with parents beginning on the second week in November, so that means that the children’s report cards must be all done by then.  And in addition to that, I have to be observed doing our new “brain compatible di...
   

Teaching Kindergarten: What's Working? #9

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ We are moving right along and are into week 9. Today I have two free Halloween downloads for practicing counting! I also share my Farm book and our farm bulletin boards, and a few favorite tools for helping develop fine motor skills. 1. Here is our Farm Bulletin Board! I love doing our farm unit! This is what we do: We study each animal, using non-fiction books and discussion. Then we make each craft project, and use them for the bull...