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Kids enjoy watching and touching these tiny, fast-moving critters that fly or crawl. Capitalize on their fascination and set up some bug centers in your classroom.
Dive into a world of fun learning with our Free Preschool Printables! 🎨✂️ Explore, create, and learn - perfect for little adventurers. #PreschoolFun #LearningIsFun
Free printable visual discrimination activity for Halloween. Help your preschool and pre-k kids develop visual discrimination skills.
16+ space activities for preschoolers! Get these done-for-you, print and teach space theme preschool lesson plans.
Preschoolers and toddlers will love moving like things found on the farm with this free printable gross motor farm movement game! Print and play!
I can't even believe it is May! Summer is just around the corner. We wrapped up our insect study a few weeks ago. Check out what we've been...
Ideas for a farm thematic unit with literacy, math, and science centers and activities for kindergarten and first grade classrooms. Learning through play.
These kindergarten anchor charts will give you the tools you need to teach math, reading, friendship skills, and much more!
Planting and growing a beanstalk using lima beans in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Perfect for a Jack and the Beanstalk theme!
Are you exploring feelings with your preschooler? Add these emotion centers and activities to your plans! Great for preschool and pre-k.
FREE Editable Name Cards perfect to use all over the classroom to help preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kiddos learn their names.
These kindergarten anchor charts will give you the tools you need to teach math, reading, friendship skills, and much more!
Use these great circle time activities for the first week or two of preschool. Great start of the year lessons with free printables.
One of the most popular snowmen and winter books has to be Snowmen at Night! We read Snowmen at Night each day for a different purpose, and the kids have a blast with the snowmen at night center activities!
Help develop your preschooler’s language skills with FREE farm animal printables! It’s easy and effective, but best of all, it takes literally no prep work at all! This post now includes free farm animal picture cards to use with your farm theme preschool lesson plans. Be sure to grab them from the end of this...Read More »
Do you teach a preschool farm theme? Grab these awesome preschool farm activities and worksheets for your classroom and centers.
Create this cute & creepy Mummy Garland -- kids will enjoy folding, tracing, cutting and creating these adorable Halloween decorations!
A fun snowman art activity to accompany the popular children's book Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
Great read aloud winter circle time activity for preschool with free printables to use with the book Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman.
Community Helpers activities and centers for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Plus FREE community signs & fire finger painting printable.
Fun, hands-on activities for an apple orchard dramatic play center that encourage the development of math and fine motor skills.
This week was all about cows, pigs, horses, and barns with our Preschool Farm theme. We love taking a trip to a local farm every spring here in Wisconsin, so this unit was the perfect tie in to expand our learning afterwards. Here were our plans for our farm theme: And here are […]
Grow a love of reading while learning through play! These hands-on garden literacy activities teach the alphabet, intial sounds, rhyming words, and more!
Use “Bear Snores On” to introduce hibernation. Continue the fun with loads of hands on activities that your preschooler will love. Includes a free printable.
Here is a fun and simple craft you can make with your kids this Halloween! Supplies: Black & White Construction Paper Finger Paint in Purple, Yellow, and Green (I recommend Crayola Brand. Check out the end of the post for more details!) Scissors Glue Craft Time! 1. Give the white construction paper to your child and let them use the finger paints to paint the papers: one purple, one yellow, and one green. Set them aside for a while and let them dry. (Overnight is good) 2. Once the paint is all dry, cut out one strip of the purple-painted paper (about 1 1/2 inches wide) and 5-6 strips of the green paper (about 1 inch wide): 3. Fold the yellow-painted paper in half and cut out half a square. Then cut out the middle of the square. This will be the buckle on the hat. 4. Fold a piece of black construction paper in half length-wise and cut from one corner to the opposite corner. 5. Unfold it and you've got your triangle shape for the hat! Then from another piece of construction paper, cut a long strip about one inch wide. This will be the brim for the hat. 6. Glue the purple strip to the bottom portion of the triangle, and the green strips about an inch or so apart over the rest of the triangle: 7. Cut off the excess painted-paper hanging over the edges of the triangle: 8. Glue the black strip onto the bottom of the triangle, and the yellow buckle on top of the purple strip. All done! Hang up your cute hat craft as a fun Halloween decoration! Happy Halloween! *The best finger paints around are by Crayola. They are the perfect consistency. Not too runny and not too thick. And best of all they are completely washable--and so easy to wipe off tables, fingers, and wash out of clothes. I HIGHLY recommend them for painting crafts with kids. And there is a great deal on Amazon right now to get a nice set of all different colors. In big enough bottles that you can use for a LONG time! Check it out! We also just put up a post about some of the best deals on Amazon for other essential kid craft supplies. Check out our post on the best kid-craft supplies for great prices on Amazon! We've got some good recommendations. :) We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
A fun process-based valentine art project for preschoolers! Use simple materials to create a fun process art experience that yields a beautiful result.
So I was thinking.... that no one told me saying good-bye was going to be so hard. I can not believe that I only have two more days until my first year of teaching is over. Over the past two weeks anytime I have thought about saying good-bye, tears have come to my eyes and I have tried my best to push them away. I have already warned my class that I will probably cry this week and not to worry, I'll be okay. How can 21 six and seven year olds affect me this way? Well, first off, they have brought me so much JOY this year, and have made this year very memorable. Here is why my tears will be flowing these next two days. 1. I have been blessed with a class that loves to talk about the Lord. As mentioned before with one of my friends here, they know that God cares about them and loves them. I loved getting to listen to their conversations about who God is and what He has done for us. Mark 10:14 "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." 2. I have been blessed to start my days for the past 178 school days with 21 smiling faces greeting me, ready to have a blast. 3. I have been able to make learning fun, which is what I was most nervous about when I started 178 days ago. I have gained so much confidence in my ability to make activities fun: noun town, Oobleck, SCI FRIs, Native American head dresses, Ocean life Ipad reports, and everything in between. Seeing their smiles and their enthusiasm while working makes all the hard work of cutting out and creating completely worth it. 4. I have been blessed with 21 fabulous students, who believe in me, encourage me, and laugh at all of my jokes. (Teaching 1st grade is a great confidence booster!) 5. I have been blessed to have been able to instill in my firsties the love of reading. One of my precious friends came up to me at Open House nine months ago and was nervous because he didn't know all of his sounds. With the help of everyone at our school he now LOVES to read to anyone who will listen, wanting to miss his center time to go read to someone. 6. The classroom community in my room is enough to make me tear up each day. Hearing a six year old encourage one of their friends to keep on going and celebrating their successes has been one of the greatest joys this year. While writing my good-bye letters, I realized how much I was going to miss this adorable, crazy, rowdy, caring, loving group of kids. It has been a fabulous year with many memories to reflect on. I have been blessed to be in a profession where I can see children mature and grow day by day. So wish me luck this week as I have to reluctantly say good-bye to my first class! ~Rachel
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Use this play dough writing tray to practice writing letters, sight words, numbers and more. This is a great way for preschoolers to practice fine motor skills.
Check out these tips for how to make 12 Months of Sensory Bin Activities that are perfect for Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms!
Food and nutrition activities and centers for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten: reading, writing, math, fine motor, dramatic play, STEM, and art!
Foster and Encourage kindness at school, in your classroom and out on the playground to create a kinder class and a kinder school culture with these 6 tips.
Can you dissolve peppermint candy? Try this fun and simple peppermint experiment with your favorite holiday candy! Learn and play with candy!
Make this cool farm animal puzzle to encourage puzzle building skills!
