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Veterans Day Books for Kids

Veterans Day Books for Kids

Explore this collection of the best Veterans Day Books for Kids. Learn about ways to honor and thank our veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good. Take time this Veterans Day with your child to learn more about our soldiers as we celebrate them. Disclosure: This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. Veterans Day Books for Kids Veterans Day is observed on November 11 each year. There are some simple ways to ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Book List, Community Outreach, Fall, grade school, Patriotism, Preschool, Veterans Day

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How to Make a Little Blue Truck Craft for Kids Story Play

Little Blue Truck Creative Play Idea and Craft

Finding ways to create a hands on activity with a book can be such fun. This Little Blue Truck craft is the perfect way to make your own truck with using a recycled box and watercolors to make a storybook extension activity. Here's how to make your own Little Blue Truck...  This week's featured book is Little Blue Truck for the Virtual Book Club for Kids . Come join along! This post contains affiliate links  BUY Little Blue Truck by Alice ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Reading Tagged With: Book Activity, Fall, Farm, grade school, Little Blue Truck, Preschool, School Ages, Toddler, Transportation, Virtual Book Club for Kids

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10 Adorable Farm Animals Themed Activities for Preschoolers

Farm Animals Activities and Crafts for Preschoolers

It's a time of fall and harvest which makes it the perfect time to learn about farm animals with your preschooler or toddler. These farm animals themed activities are simple and fun as your child develops their early learning skills. Let's head to the farm! Disclosure: Amazon affiliate links used in this post.  Farm Animals Themed Activities for Preschoolers We shared a 5 day farm themed weekly preschool lesson plan on The Virtual Book Club for Kids Website.  CLICK ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities, Reading Tagged With: Fall, Farm, Preschool, Toddler, Virtual Book Club for Kids

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Preschool Activities Farm Theme: Make a Mystery Animal Book

My kids LOVE visiting farms! My preschooler loves feeding and petting the animals, helping with farm chores, and harvesting crops. After a visit to the farm, it is always fun to continue learning at home! Here are some easy and FUN farm preschool learning activities to do with your children! Literacy Activity: Make a Mystery Animal Book We use a lot of home-made books to help build early literacy skills. Often the books in the stores and libraries are too advanced for my young ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, Amanda, Fall, Farm, Playful Preschool, Preschool

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HARVEST Preschool Activities: A Social Studies Lesson

Harvest Activities for Preschool

Understand what it means to harvest with your preschooler through videos from around the world harvesting their crops. Plus Preschool Harvest Activities and Harvest themed Books! Here's how to explain harvest to preschoolers.  At 8:00 this morning, my kids were outside in the garden. It's HARVEST time!!! Our garden is tiny, but we still have herbs and vegetables to harvest. I want my preschooler to understand what it means to harvest the food that he planted from seed. And ... Read more...

Filed Under: Cultural Education, Gardening, Kids Activities Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, Amanda, Around the World, Fall, Kids in the Garden, Raising Global Kids, Video

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Farm Muffin Tin Syllable Counting Game for Kids

Farm Muffin Tin Syllable Counting Game for kids to make and play. Learning Objective, strengthening fine motor, syllable segmentation, and vocabulary development.

Old MacDonald had a Farm. E-I-E-I-O!  And on his farm he had a COW. E-I-E-I-O! With a moo, moo here and a moo, moo there. Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo, moo. Old MacDonald had a Farm. E-I-E-I-O! Kids LOVE to sing .  It's a great way to strengthen literacy skills.  Extend this kid-favorite song into a syllable counting game. It's fun to make and play with a cow, horse, goose, chicken and other barnyard animals. Affiliate links. Reprinted with permission from 100 ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Amanda, Fall, Farm, Muffin Tin, Preschool, School Ages, Syllables

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Little Blue Truck Magnetic Farm Activity for Kids

Magnetic Farm Activity to go along with the book Little Blue Truck

Recreate the scenes from the adorable children' book Little Blue Truck with this magnetic farm activity for kids.  Beep, Beep, Beep goes the truck as you help your child learn animals sounds and names with this activity. Spending time at a farm with your child is such an classic part of childhood. As they begin to discover a cow, pig, horse or chicken really it with the sounds and movements. This fall look around your community to see what opportunities that are ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Book Activity, Farm, grade school, Preschool, Virtual Book Club for Kids

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Off to the FARM – Tot school 35 months

Farm Themed Tot School Activities

Discover our Farm Themed Tot School Weekly Plan. A week of farm themed music, art, science and math all focused on toddler fun with farm animals. Farm Animal Tot School Themed Activities The farm has been a focus on many tot school weeks. Although I as a parent, may tire of doing the same thing over and over again, my toddler has specifically requested to spend the week learning about the farm. Repetition at this age is SO beneficial and SO again, we are off to the farm! Monday - ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: Farm, toddlers, Tot School

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DIY Farm Pretend Play Mat

DIY Farm Pretend Play Mat

Create your own DIY Farm Pretend Play Mat for your child with some scraps of fabric and a little imagination for hours of pretend play with farm animals. My daughter LOVED to play with our pretend toy farm. One day, I decided to sew some scraps of fabric together to make a DIY Farm Pretend Play Mat for on-the-go play and learning. Affiliate Links included. In all honesty, if you would have told me 8 years ago how much use this farm pretend play mat would have seen, I probably would ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, Amanda, Fall, Farm, Kindergarten, PLAY, Preschool

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Click Clack Moo Activity with Shapes

Click Clack Moo Activity featuring shapes

Create a Click Clack Moo Activity with your child. Head to the farm with this shape themed farm activity for preschoolers! Inspired by the book Click Clack Moo this literacy and math-focused activity is inspired by some talented cows on the farm! Here's how to make... We're down on the farm for our Virtual Book Club for Kids, will you join us with the story Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type.  It's our featured book and them.  Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to ... Read more...

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Book Activities, Fall, Farm, grade school, Preschool, Shapes, Virtual Book Club for Kids

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