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STEM Activities for Kindergarten at Home

September 9, 2020 by Sarah Leave a Comment

One of my boys favourite things in the world is STEM challenges. And guess what? They are becoming one of my favourite learning tools. Could it be? A simple learning set up that I LOVE that my boys LOVE just as much?!  Adding STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) activities to your kindergarten (or any grade!)…

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Filed Under: Preschooler, Science Tagged With: homeschooling, Kindergarten at home, learning activities, science, STEM

Building on Observations – A Mucky and Super Fun Science Home School Activity

August 30, 2020 by Belinda Leave a Comment

In this exciting, albeit somewhat mucky, oh so fun, Science home school activity, we build on our wee ones’ observation skills with three key phrase starters. Those phrases are “I see…”  “I think…” “ I wonder.” As always, this activity involves the ever-crucial oral language component, as well as building their confidence in sharing their…

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Filed Under: Explore, Get Outside, Outside Play, Science Tagged With: outside, science, Science activities for kids

Outdoor stem activities are great for learning while having fun and this toilet paper roll experiment is such a fun outdoor activity for kids of all ages!

Outdoor STEM Activities – Toilet Paper Roll Experiment

July 28, 2020 by Belinda Leave a Comment

Have you ever thought to use a toilet paper roll in a science experiment? Well, get ready friends … this one is awesome!  As you may know, I just love encouraging children’s thinking and learning through experiments and play and outdoor STEM activities are perfect for this. If you enjoy doing this too, then this…

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Filed Under: Create, Get Outside, Outside Play, Science, Science Tagged With: outdoor activities, outdoor fun, science, STEM

STEM and STEAM Activities for Kids

October 2, 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Are you looking for (or wondering about) STEM or STEAM activities for kids? If so, you are in the right place my friends! This is the ULTIMATE resource list for the best of the best Science, Technology, Engineering, (Art), and Math (STE(A)M) activities. My boys have always loved STEM challenges. And I completely understand why!…

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Filed Under: Numeracy, Preschooler, Quiet Time Tagged With: science, STEM

This is such a cool science experiment and a great craft too. A true STEAM activity for kids! Use only vinegar to turn milk into plastic. #scienceexperiments #scienceexperimentsforkids #scienceforkids #sciencelesson #kidsactivities #learningactivities #HowWeeLearn #funforkids #STEM #STEAM

Turn Milk into Plastic!

January 28, 2019 by Sarah 199 Comments

  Did you know you could turn milk into plastic? I didn’t. I had no idea! I did know that you can turn cream into butter, which is just what I was planning on doing with my Kindergarteners last week. We love easy science experiments! There I was armed with gallons of cream (which as…

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Filed Under: Explore, Grade School, Other Learning Fun, Popular, Science, Science Tagged With: milk, preschool, science

Easy science experiments about the weather for kids! These are such cool STEM activities about the seasons #science #STEM #preschool #weather #teaching #parenting

Weather Activities for Preschoolers

September 24, 2018 by Sarah 1 Comment

Have you ever stopped to consider how amazing this world is? I think it helps that I am surrounded with little people all day long, but every time we head outside we have at least one “WOW” moment. Children are so great at slowing down and noticing things. The amazing variability of weather we have…

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Filed Under: All Ages, Get Outside, Kindergarten, Kindergarteners, Other Learning Fun, Preschooler, Preschoolers, Science, Uncategorized Tagged With: science, Science activities for kids, weather

Awesome fall science experiments for kids! Fabulous STEM and STEAM ideas for the Autumn. #science #stem #steam #experiments #fall #autumn #preschool

Fabulous Fall Science Experiments

September 11, 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

I really do love Fall. I always have. But this year, it also means the end of MOSQUITOES, so I have never loved it quite this much. The mosquitoes have been out of this world. Our neighbours who have lived here for over 30 years claim they have never seen anything like it. And the…

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Filed Under: Explore, Learn, Loads of Ideas!, Other Learning Fun, Science, Science Tagged With: grade one, homeschool, preschool, science, science experiments

A Clay Birds Nest

May 23, 2018 by Sarah 2 Comments

Looking to make a bird’s nest? Us too! Who wouldn’t be?! It is spring after all, so crafting must take a healthy nature twist as we readjust ourselves to being outside more. In fact, last spring we dissected a bird’s nest and I declared then and there that we would be attempting to make one….

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Filed Under: All Ages, All Ages, Art, Create, Explore, Get Outside, Playful Art, Preschooler, Preschoolers, Science, Toddlers Tagged With: nature, Playful art, science

The results of our simplge groundhog day activity for preschoolers! Such a fun science activity for kids! #science #preschool #groundhogday

Groundhog Day Science!

January 27, 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

We did this fun Groundhog Day science activity last year and it was such a great learning activity! This year I thought I would share it a week in advance so you have a little bit of time to prepare if you want to join us. I shared the set up of the activity yesterday,…

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Filed Under: Kindergarten, Other Learning Fun, Science Tagged With: groundhog day, science, shadow tracing

Turn the water table into a huge inventors bin!

Turn the Water Table into an Inventor’s Bin

September 30, 2016 by Sarah 2 Comments

Happy Friday! This week has gone by in the blink of an eye. It was very good, lots of fun and learning and time out and about with friends – just very fast. I hope you had a lovely week as well. I wanted to share an idea with you that has been a humongous…

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Filed Under: Activities for Big Kids, Activities for Preschoolers, Create, Explore, Kindergarten, Other Learning Fun, Playful Art, Preschooler, Science, Science Tagged With: inventors bin, science, STEM

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