Have you ever had a friend surprise you with a gift that met your dire, albeit unspoken need? An unexpected visit? A card in the mail at just the right time? A spur of the moment phone call? God often speaks to us through the promptings of His Holy Spirit. These promptings can help foster more meaningful friendships, if we will take the time to listen.
Community Helpers activities and centers for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Plus FREE community signs & fire finger painting printable.
A great tool for building community in your classroom! I put together a set of friendship blocks (or tubes) for my class to play with and to also use as a tool for helping my students get more familiar with each other... The How-to To make
Teaching friendship to students in the primary classroom- book, anchor chart, and activities for friendship
February Plan With Me: Here's a fun snail mail theme with vintage postal elements for the month of love and friendship!
February Plan With Me: Here's a fun snail mail theme with vintage postal elements for the month of love and friendship!
My Myself Family Project will have your kiddos learning a fun song and following the directions. Students will love mailing themselves home.
While a post office dramatic play center is a ton of fun, you'll need a few more activities to go with it if you're trying to put together a full theme unit
Thank you so much for checking out my thematic centers that are FRIENDSHIP-themed. In addition to center time work, please note that this is great for early finishers and morning work. Included in this unit is the following: Play Dough Dress a Friend Mats Play Dough A, M, S mats (Follows the Little Treasures curriculum introduction of letters) Fine Motor “I Can”-Friendship Necklace and Friendship Bead Bracelets Friendship-themed Block Design or STEM box cards featuring real photographs Color and Design a Friend Q-Tip A, M, S A,M,S Writing Mats A,M,S Sorting mats with sorting cards Beginning Sound A, M, S Clip Cards Find and Circle; Find and Color A,M,S Math: Friendship-themed “How Many Friends” clip it cards Friendship-themed Linking and Build a Tower to Match Quantity Cards Friendship-Themed Math Talk Real Photograph Cards to match with Numeral Cards Roll and Cover themed Mats Long Hair or Short Hair Graph Pieces with student graph Concepts of Size Challenge Cards Printing Tip: To save ink and paper, print multiple sheets per page. This may be included as a bundle as more themes are added. If you have any suggestions for themes, please e-mail at [email protected]. I hope you enjoy and check out my other units available on TpT. Also, make sure to check out my co-authored Close Read Units with Erin Eberhart Lynch. Thank you, Jennifer Horner
Receive your first set of resources instantly when you join! now open! *FOR A LIMITED TIME* The Grandkid Connection Club is accepting new members!… join today! We get it…. It’s personal. Our families “U-Haul Day” is March 9th. It’s been just over three years since we waved goodbye to the moving truck that carried our only...
How to mail a hug, a special handprint craft to make for someone that you miss. This mail a hug DIY is a special gift great for family and friends.
This is a funny little gift that is great for your friends, family, co-workers, clients Secret Santa - Quirky - Boss - Friendship - Parent - College Student - Stocking Filler etc. Perfect for that person that gets a little irate or wound up. Simply give them this and when they can feel the temperature rising they simple need to throw this "little fit" rather than their own! These would make a fabulous class gift, or even a coworker gift. Slight variations may occur due to these being individually handmade. And everyone's screens are different. And the colors of 'A Little Fit" will vary. For large orders please message me to make sure that I have enough in the color you want.
Our community theme is one of my favorites because there are so many fun things we can do. I could probably spend a month on this theme exploring lots of jobs, places and community helpers. Here were our plans for our community theme: And here are the details for each activity: Making Inferences: Madelynn loves […]
Receive your first set of resources instantly when you join! now open! *FOR A LIMITED TIME* The Grandkid Connection Club is accepting new members!… join today! We get it…. It’s personal. Our families “U-Haul Day” is March 9th. It’s been just over three years since we waved goodbye to the moving truck that carried our only...
For our second week of the Covid Community Kindness Project, we have a fun craft to spread some love... even when social distancing! With our Mail-a-Hug template, your kids can send love in an adorable way to whomever they’re missing. Parents, grandparents, friends, cousins, teachers... who doesn’t want to get a hug in the mail? Just print, colour and send, and make someone feel extra special today.
The Children’s book, Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister, has always had a special spot in my heart. From the time it was published in 1992, I have loved the illustrations, and especially the mor…
A meaningful writing activity that also serves as an experience in expressing kindness. Great writing activities for preschoolers!
Simple and fun mail delivery activity that uses children's names for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classrooms; post office activity great for community helpers theme or Valentines theme
Receive your first set of resources instantly when you join! now open! *FOR A LIMITED TIME* The Grandkid Connection Club is accepting new members!… join today! We get it…. It’s personal. Our families “U-Haul Day” is March 9th. It’s been just over three years since we waved goodbye to the moving truck that carried our only...
Receive your first set of resources instantly when you join! now open! *FOR A LIMITED TIME* The Grandkid Connection Club is accepting new members!… join today! We get it…. It’s personal. Our families “U-Haul Day” is March 9th. It’s been just over three years since we waved goodbye to the moving truck that carried our only...
The job of a mail carrier is essential. Help your kids learn about and appreciate the role of mail carriers with these FREE Postman Printables and Crafts.
Why do people write? These printables for your Pre-K Writing Center will help teach children the purposes for writing. People write to send messages on
Remind someone how much you love them with this hug in the mail card that holds hands attached to strings, and a poem telling them how to enjoy their hug!
Letter sorting is a fun way to work on letter recognition and get some pretend play in too.
My favorite Valentine's Day books for little learners (preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten). Books to teach about love, friendship, letters, and the mail.
For the past three years we have had the opportunity to participate in Cat'n Around Catskill. Originally when our design was submitted our idea was to do Ten Little Caterpillar, inspired by the book and the ten year anniversary of the Cats on Main Street. As we worked on the cat, our idea began to change. We had many discussions about butterflies and the children were immersed in games, stories, songs and art about butterflies. In the art studio they looked at many different species of butterflies and began to draw out their own butterflies. Again, we had more conversations about what butterflies we like best, and what their pictures of butterflies represent. We also learned lots about butterflies such as, they taste a flower with their feet, smell with their antenna and drink with their long proboscis tongue. The drawings created by the children were very intricate and involved, so we began to think about how that would translate on the cat as they painted. We tried a couple different versions, and in addition to discovering the process we would use to make our butterflies, we also discovered that almost every child's favorite butterfly was the Monarch Butterfly. The Monarch butterfly is fascinating and the children were very interested in their migration pattern. The Monarch will fly from North America to Mexico and roost in the Oyamel Tree, an ancient Fir tree in Mexico. They will stay their until the Spring then head back and lay an egg in Texas or Oklahoma, then that butterfly will head North only living for a couple week, lay an egg, and then the next will fly North again only living a couple weeks, their egg will transform and travel North again, and their final egg will be the butterfly to live eight months and travel down to Mexico again. The amazing thing that when these 4 different generations travel North, they follow and stop at almost the exact places their predecessor stopped on the way to Mexico. It is an incredible cycle that is sadly suffering from the diminishing source of Milkweed, as well as the deforestation in Mexico.With further discussion with the children, it was decided that our cat would be focused on Monarch Butterflies. One of the reasons for this decision was that the children became very passionate about saving the Monarchs. When I was teaching about Monarchs I let them know that the population is at risk because the Monarch Caterpillar only eats one food, Milkweed. Children amaze me, their innocent passion about our world is so powerful. When a four year tells you not to cut down your Milkweed to save the Monarchs, it has a gravity that really sends the message home. Trying out different painting processes In the end the children had the most success painting their Monarchs by using their hand prints and then adding the details after. Below you can see our inspiration wall for our project and the process we took to come up with our idea for the cat. We also had the opportunity to have Kate Boyer visit our school with her wonderful educational performance of Monarch Magic, which is a nature awareness performance with soft sculpture and a story through song about the amazing travels and life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly. Her link is highlighted in the title above. The incredible Oyamel Fir Tree with Monarchs roosting created by Kate Chrysalis and a Milkweed plant Monarch Caterpillars The children finding a Monarch that will begin it's migration The Chrysalis being hung on the Milkweed and then the caterpillar emerging from its cocoon. Kate performing with her guitar and pausing to show the children what an actual chrysalis looks like and a butterfly as it emerges from the chrysalis. Children excited to share their knowledge about butterflies Our nature table was even visited by butterflies and Milkweed. Kate was kind enough to lend us her Oyamel tree and props and the children enjoyed playing with them as well as countless adventures into the Oyamel tree to play peek-a-boo. Exploring and making butterfly homes with blocks. Soaring around like a butterfly. And of course we had to become Monarchs as well. Now we come back to the painting of our cat. We started with different variations of gold paint, and the children all had a chance to work together to apply three coats Our next step was to have the older students add their hand print, and our younger students were to do the ten little caterpillars. Our cat sitting with our inspiration board as our process begins to move along. Adding their detail and personal charm to each butterfly. Below are our very focused Caterpillar painters Another picture mid-process And finally we had one of our Art and Soul Alumni paint the face, one of the perks when your mama owns the school:) I have loved doing this project with my students for the past three years, but this cat holds a special place in my heart because of the love and devotion the children developed in learning about Monarchs and wanting to help them survive. It is such a sweet cat, and if you would like to see it yourself, you can find it just before Canal Street on Main Street. Special thanks to The Heart of Catskill for sponsoring us, Tina for the awesome name and all that she does, and Kate Boyer for volunteering her time and talent with her Monarch Magic performance and art, and of course the fabulous students of Art and Soul Preschool, I am so proud of you!
Literacy, literacy and more literacy! One of my favorite ways to incorporate literacy in our classroom is by doing a unit on the post office. Reading and writing is incorporated in such a fun way. Our dramatic play center! The post office is such a great resource. They allow us to use "real" postal envelopes, stickers and stamps. In our science center students can weigh packages and record the weight. Our long path game (created by Ms. Brandi). It's based off the book, A Letter to Amy. Our writing center. One of our language charts. We sing it and use bells as accompanying instruments. Our other language chart. One of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors.
Superhero printables packet perfect for preschool children featuring tracing of letters, numbers, and shapes, letter recognition, cutting practice, and more
