Today we made horses to celebrate the letter H. We talked about the sound the letter H makes and got new homework sheets. There is no class ...
Well, it took me longer than mid July to get back into my room, but i finally did only 2 weeks ago...that's really late for me! Plus, with n...
Teaching your preschooler about shapes? Try this fun, hands-on geometry activity by building shapes with playdoh!
A big part of any outer space unit study is learning all about the planets and stars in our solar system.
FREE Call Backs and attention getters for the kindergarten classroom! Great classroom management tool!
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20 Free Name Activities for the First Week of Kindergarten. Check out these amazing hands-on and fun name activities! Integrates multiple skills.
I love Kindergarten. Everyday I find something new and exciting to support my thought that, "Kindergarten is for ME". Yesterday was not one ...
Create this adorable holiday gift idea with your child's handprints. This Reindeer Craft Frame is sure to be a keepsake for years!
KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 1 I am thrilled to be sharing this huge Counting and Cardinality Unit with you! This is the math unit we start the year with in kindergarten. The kids love all of the hands-on activities we get to do, and I love how easy it is to keep them engaged.
Our theme this week was "Our Five Senses" and we focused on the letter B and the shape circle. We read this week: Ferdinand by Munro Leaf Paddington by Mark Brown Paddington and the Busy Bee Carnival by Mark Brown The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon Our question of the week was "What is something that you are really good at?" For our theme of the week, we talked a lot about our senses, what they help us do and why we need them. We made texture collages: This week is full of some of my favorite activities from the year, these texture collages being one of them. I love how each one is different, and the kids are so proud of the texture choices that they make. AND they look amazing on the wall. We tasted sweet, salty and sour things, and the kids had to vote on their favorite taste. (They think it's awesome when they get to eat things as part of a project.) We tested their sense of smells with this project where I asked them to describe the things that they were smelling. I used perfume, shampoo, chocolate syrup, pickle juice, toothpaste and (the most tricky) water. Out on our schools nature trail we talked about the different sounds that we could hear. We did this at various points of our walk, close to the school, by the parking lot and deeper in the woods. Lastly we did another activity with the sense of touch. I set up my table with different texture objects. I used flour, rice, oatmeal, sand and a scrubbing sponge. As the students felt each thing, I asked them to describe what they were feeling. It was hard to get them away from just telling them what the items were and to use describing words, but we got there in the end. For our shape of the week, the kids practiced drawing circles with this cool worksheet of circles and another with squares and circles. We also worked on recognizing circles out of other shapes. We talked a lot about things that are circles. We sang the song "This is a circle, this is a circle. How can you tell? How can you tell? It goes round and round, No end can be found, It's a circle, it's a circle." -Found Here For our letter activities, we used our handwriting sheet for the letter B, the sheet that helps work on letter recognition, both were mentioned in the "All About Me" post. The students also wrote in their journals for the letter B. We turned B's into Bees! After we read Ferdinand we all made our own bees. This was a great way for the kids to practice their cutting skills. I love how each child's bee is different. Another project that we did (another one of my favorites all year) is the Boat Builder activity. I love it because I give the students the materials and the end result is something completely their own. Each child got a piece of white paper, a square of brown paper, a skinny black rectangle, scissors, a glue stick and crayons with the instruction of make me a boat however you want to. (They love when I say that). If I get "I don't know how..." or " I can't do it.." We go back a few steps and talk about boats.. what do they look like, where do we find them, what do they do, and then the creative juices start flowing. Here's the end results! Love it! For our Alphabet wall we made butterflies with coffee filters and water color paint. After the children painted their coffee filters and they dried I used small pipe cleaners to turn them into butterflies! And with the B addition, our wall now looks like... Our list for words beginning with B's was very impressive. Here it is! As a side note, teachers always need to be flexible, and as such, it was in the best interest of the flow of the classroom to switch two centers, the library and dramatic play center. And I'm always telling the kids to make sure that they turn off the water faucet after getting a drink or washing their hands. I tell them to "Save the water for the fishes, so I painted a mural for above the sink to remind them. Up next week: The letter C, Triangles and "Our Feelings".
our little gal popped this morning at about 6:45! miss woke up and spent the whole morning before school in the backyard holding her (she even ate her breakfast out there!) (carrie sweet i can feel you squirming all the way from here!) i had to plan a little activity last week for miss' class so i took the chrysalis in and i talked to them about the life cycle of a butterfly and what metamorphosis is. then i had them do this little life cycle. each spot gets a different kind of pasta glued on. oh, my heck the kids in her class LOVED it! it was a huge success so i'm attaching the life cycle i designed for whoever wants to use it! [JUST CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD!] (the kids were coloring/drawing all over the page so i decided to make it black & white)
September is coming to an end already & with October quickly approaching, we are starting to get ready for Halloween. When I think of Halloween, I think of ghosts and goblins, jack-o-lanterns, candy, costumes & masks. My daughter loves to dress up and play games of make believe. We have made many masks and have […]
Teaching Conservation Awareness through the Senses of Sight and Sound in Preschool and Kindergarten
Got a talkative class? Check out these 5 ways to quiet the chatter!
So it's been about a month since my last post but I am really going to work on posting what goes on in my classroom more often! A few weeks ago we had fun learning about Fall/Autumn. I wanted to create something for my Dramatic Play Center to go along with our theme so with the help of Pinterest and the PreK Pages I came up with my Apple Orchard. It didn't turn out quite like my vision but I just worked with what I had =) I used the kit from http://www.pre-kpages.com/dramatic-play-apple-orchard/ to add some great print to my center. I also included several books about apples. My students really seemed to enjoy "picking apples" and "baking apple pies."
Kids will love to play with these counting bears printable pattern for pretend play, patterns, sorting, counting and more. These bears are a must have for every homeschool or busy bag collection. This freebie contains follow the pattern printable cards and complete the pattern printable cards. They coordinate perfectly with these bears and your kids will love the games.
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Transform your preschool day with effective transitions. Explore how music, chants, and stories can engage and guide children through different activities.
It is no secret that math manipulatives are great for teaching new math skills to little learners. But how important are visual aids when teaching math in early childhood classrooms? What are Visual Aids? Visual aids are resources that contain information learners can see. Posters, videos, anchor charts, etc. are all great examples. But for
Howdy, y’all! A few weeks ago (I know, I’m just catching up), our toddlers enjoyed a 2-week wild west theme. We enjoyed creating several process art projects together, and I wanted to share them here! Sandpaper Cactus Cactuses (cacti?) are rough and prickly, and I wanted our students to be able to feel that sort of texture without actually getting stuck by the prickles. Enter sandpaper! I got a pack of 10 sheets from the Dollar Store and cut them into cactus shapes. After the toddlers rubbed and scratched the sandpaper, I just plopped a spoonful of green fingerpaint on the sandpaper and let the kiddos go to town! To make it even more special, we glued the cactus to a paper and made an entire desert scene – the sun in the upper left corner was a simple yellow handprint, and the ground was made by smearing some brown paint across the bottom of the paper, which they were more than happy to do! (idea from No Time for Flashcards) Wild West Sunset You won’t believe what we made these sunsets out of – it was so simple and fun, and as you can see, it turned out beautifully! I traced each child’s hand to make a cactus, and we tore brown strips of paper for the ground. For more details, see the instructions I wrote back when we actually made it! Cow Sponge Painting All you need for this fun art project is white paper, black paint, a shower loofah (yep, they have them at the Dollar Store), and a willing toddler! They dipped and dabbed and smeared and spread – easy and enjoyable! Lasso Art Now we get into the hard stuff – fine motor skills hard at work here! I recommend a thick woolen yarn for this project. It is hard work grasping a small “lasso” like this and running it through the paint! Nevertheless, our little ones were eager to try (though sometimes we ended up with more handprints than lasso lines…) (idea adapted from Alphabet Academy - wish we had such an awesome outdoor classroom!) Handprint Horse OK, I know this isn’t process art, but the parents raved about this keepsake. And what’s the wild west without some horses? Just paint the hand (upside down) brown, and draw on a mane, tail, and face. Easy peasy! (idea from Glued to my Crafts) Cactus Comb Paintings For some reason in my wild west brainstorm, I kept being inspired by cactuses. I saw crafts for older children involving the gluing of toothpick prickles and tissue paper blossoms onto a cactus shape, but this was more our speed – we painted with a comb! Painting with different objects is always fascinating and exciting, and we got some interesting textures out of the “teeth” of the comb. (idea from TippyToe Crafts) Bonus: “Wanted” Poster Room Decorations After seeing this idea, I worked up my own individualized "wanted" posters (I think I used Google Image search to find an aged template background and then just inserted the children's pictures and typed the text with the font Playbill. The photos worked out really well since it was my first week with these kids, so they weren’t quite used to my excessive photography of them and hadn’t learned to smile for the camera yet. They did get a lot of smiles from the resident adults, however!
I’d like to start sharing some of my beach classroom theme. I’m really happy with it so far! I think the classroom is going to be really cute when I’m done. Today I’ll share…
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20+ Fantastic & Easy Ideas for Meet the Teacher Night Ideas include parent communication, treats for students, supply collection, and even a FREEBIE!
Counting and recognizing the teen numbers can be a bit tricky for a preschooler. I've been working with my preschooler on mastering those numbers lately and decided to put together this preschool pumpkin lacing activity
If you are looking for alphabet activities for preschoolers these letter of the week crafts are perfect. This free printable allows you to make a rainbow for R.
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