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Before learning to write, it is important that preschool children practice tracing and drawing with a pencil to gain basic pencil-control skills. These preschool pre-writing activities lead to the ability to form letters and numbers.

Summer is in full swing and July 4th is just around the corner! This fine motor and folding activity is the perfect craft to help decorate your classroom or your house for celebrating America.

Introducing: Tall Giraffe - By Debbie Clement

A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman is the story of a child who sees a rainbow from his window and runs off in his raincoat and boots to catch it. When the rainbow unexpectedly disappears, the boy imagines what it would be like to have a rainbow as a playmate.

We are going on a African safari with a theme packed full of preschool and kindergarten learning adventures. Children put on their dancing shoes and learn about jungle animals as they build literacy with the focus book Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae.