KONOS Attentiveness

Ear/ Hearing

How your ear works

Mr Bell Video Free!

Free video on Mr Bell - Great if you're doing KONOS Attentiveness unit. This is the movie that is referenced in the sound experiments/music lesson plan

Mr. Bell part 1

Mr Bell part 2

Play Everywhere!

I think I'm starting a theme here....

Here's some great sites on play called:

Let's Explore

Childhood 101

Outdoor Play!

This is a great guide on the reason for bringing back outdoor play. The average preschooler only gets 1 minute a day compared to 2 1/2 hours of screen time (videos, games, computer etc.)

A Parent’s Guide to Nature Play

Cicadas

Really it's gotten to plague proportions here. They are so loud that you're ears are deaf like when you go to a concert by the time you get inside. And...for further enjoyment, lets have them flying everywhere landing on everything. Good thing I don't freak out about bugs.

So between floods, tornado and now this...I'm wondering if the water will be turning to blood soon.

This was an interesting thought on these huge bugs.

Well...I'm Back to FIAR with Konos thrown in. I just can't handle Sonlight. While I like *some* of the books in Sonlight I found that I didn't like 1/2 of them for Kindergarten...jeeze. So I'm back to what we love with read alouds thrown in from Sonlight, For The Children's Hour and Kindergarten Gems.

Which was what I was doing before...nothing like learning an expensive lesson.

What To Do With Your Toddler/Preschooler Part II

Here's another treasure from the last century

Home Occupations For Little Children

ARt for Kids!

This is a great book on how to teach art using picture books!