In honor of last week’s Caldecott Awards, we gave some awards of our own to books we love!
Help Yourself Shelf
The “Help Yourself Shelf” is a necessity for any Studio, classroom, or children’s home art area!
Just Add Kids…2016
Marbles and Boats
Exploring how many marbles it takes to sink the boats
Ball Run
We are typically not big fans of mass produced catalog materials but…this is awesome! It is engaging, open ended, well designed, durable and a just right challenge for 5 year olds!
Light Table
X-rays on the light table and a text book full of great bone photos! 
The X-rays were purchased online and are made for classroom use.
Party Game
A variation on the straw and cotton ball races…great hand strength activity!
Pom poms and condiment bottles 
The Sliderator
As a culmination to our machines and contraptions project the PreK class created their own contraption…The Sliderator. The Sliderator is an elaborate marble run featuring a crank, inclined planes, tubes, hand painted blinking signs, rules for use, a ladder, a funnel, a lifeguard chair (to retrieve marbles that have escaped), and a musical tree! We shared our Sliderator and documentation with the other classes and parents during our Holiday Program.
Exploring Pulleys
We created a pulley system with command hooks on a “wall.” The challenge was to get the bone up to the dog using more than one hook!
We explored pulleys out on the playground too!
Preschool Web Design
Purposeful Preschool - Ideas and Reflections from a Project Based Preschool 