Is your child ready for Kindergarten? This post will help you decide plus free worksheets focused on kindergarten readiness skills like...

How to Avoid the Summer Slide! Summer is right around the corner! We all LOVE our summer vacation, but not the "Summer Slide!" The Summer Review Packets

Bring in the spring with these fun math activities! Your preschooler is going to love learning all about numbers, counting, even addition with these 25 Spring Math Activities For Preschoolers. Let's go! It'll be fun

The weekend is family time. A fun weekend does not always have to go out there. Arranging some family-friendly activities at home could be fun too. If you seek activity ideas, here are the outdoor and indoor activities to hold at the weekend with your family..

20+ WEATHER theme learning shelf and activities for preschoolers and toddlers. Check out the fun activities here...

Free printable shapes worksheets for teaching kids the basic shapes. Lots of fun activities to download for FREE!

This printable All About Me poster is perfect for a preschool or kindergarten All About Me theme. This will be a keepsake for years to come too!

Ice cream math activity perfect for your summer activities for preschoolers and kindergarten kids. Free printable number cones available, too.

When trouble is abound in your Preschool or Kindergarten classroom, Sandi is here to save the day! Sandi is an incredible, seasoned, and passionate Kindergarten teacher here to solve your preschool classroom management woes once and for all! Here are Sandi's 7 tips for making sure your Preschool classroom is running smooth and peaceful. Preschool

Is your child ready for Kindergarten? This post will help you decide plus free worksheets focused on kindergarten readiness skills like...

Free preschool printables for homeschooling are so easy and fun to use! Plus some of the worksheets and activities these moms come up with are amazing!

Our 15 Free Preschool Color Charts with help your student learn their colors quickly and easily. Learning colors in these valuable charts will teach children to recognize colors & common sight words.

The preschool years are a time of exploration and discovery. They are also filled with learning a lot about what makes us unique individuals. Recently, I started working with my toddler on identifying and naming body parts and reading various All About Me Books. Today we’re sharing a fun all about me preschool science activity...Read More

Looking for fun Weather Activities for Preschool? This set is packed with weather charts, activities, and weather worksheets you'll love.

Big and small worksheets for preschool and kindergarten - size comparison worksheets - big, medium, small worksheets for kids.

Start your student's new school year off with some self-reflection. Each page is geared towards getting your students to look at themselves, their families, and their friends!

Real-life kindergarten spaces!

This free printable All about Me worksheet is a fun activity for preschool and kindergarten kids. PDF template available in color and B&W

Discover the perfect All About Me preschool activity designed for young kids! Get a free printable worksheet that's simple, engaging, and ideal for emergent readers. Download now!

Get circle time tips from a veteran preschool teacher! Learn the basics of circle time that will help your own circle time go smoothly!

Our 15 Free Preschool Color Charts with help your student learn their colors quickly and easily. Learning colors in these valuable charts will teach children to recognize colors & common sight words.

Are wondering what your preschooler can be learning? Here is a checklist to help you have a successful preschool at home.

Looking For An Easy Preschool Portrait Activity? Well This Fun and Educational Shape Self Portrait Activity for Preschoolers Will Be A Hit with The Little Ones!

A collection of fun and educational shape activities for preschoolers to develop their early understanding of geometry.

Our 15 Free Preschool Color Charts with help your student learn their colors quickly and easily. Learning colors in these valuable charts will teach children to recognize colors & common sight words.

Pre-K and TK Back to School Worksheets. Name practice, fine motor skills, color identification, pre-k math skills and pre-k alphabet practice.

Pom pom sheep craft | Kids will want to make this lamb for spring. Use the free printable template to cut out and glue. Great for preschool & beyond!

Equip your child for success with these awesome educational resources! You'll have everything you need to help your preschooler explore the alphabet and beyond. Take advantage of these free printables.

Our 15 Free Preschool Color Charts with help your student learn their colors quickly and easily. Learning colors in these valuable charts will teach children to recognize colors & common sight words.

Effective homeschooling will bring tremendous result in the long run…You Can Do it right with this free resources.

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Need to get kids focused and ready for the day? Set-up a DIY Question of the Day board with a drip pan and a few simple materials. Kids love reading the different questions posted each school day!

Looking for insect crafts? I have 20 easy and fun insect crafts and activities to try with your kids at home or in the classroom.

Les 35 à 40 photos de classe de ma carrière sont d'une affligeante monotonie. On y voit immanquablement 4 ou 5 rangées d'élèves placés en gradins et la maîttresse debout à côté du groupe. La seule différence est la tête de la maîtresse qui change au...

Setting up a classroom family photo display is a great way to build a positive classroom community. Today, I'm going to share a letter you can send home requesting a family photo, as well as some

This adorable Ice Cream Theme is packed full of hands on fun. Children will get to learn math, literacy, colors, patterns, counting and more.

Back to School Preschool Worksheets with all kinds of great activities for preschoolers to use all year round. Counting, letter recognition and much more.

Bee crafts and art ideas are great fun for kids of all ages, and they make a wonderful activity to enjoy together as a family. Whether it's busy preschoolers, playful toddlers or imaginative kindergarten students, bee crafts have something for everyone to enjoy! With step by step bee crafts instructions, it's easy to complete bee-inspired Ideas that will delight any child. From simple bee pattern painting and bee garlands to bumble bee handprint jewelry boxes, there are plenty of fun activities to choose from in our 30 bee crafts for kids collection. Get creative with these artsy bumble bee crafts

This All About Me paper hat is great to be used on the first day of school with preschoolers, kindergartners and older students.

Two Points: This is MY method, and not necessarily right for you, your teaching or care philosophy, your set-up, or your students. Curriculum participation by my students is VOLUNTARY. I invite them to participate, but if they choose not to, then that is fine. I usually offer them a choice of a few of the activities and let them decide where we start and where we go. An engaged child learns, a dis-engaged child rebels. The 3-year rotating curriculum is theme based. Some times we stick to the plan, but usually I observe what they are interested in learning about, what they are asking questions about, and suggest up to three different themes they can choose from for us to study. I make my own 3-year rotating curriculum for many reasons: Packaged curriculum is often only one year. Since I teach for 3 years, this would be redundant. Most packaged curriculum focuses on skills my students master early. My 2s count to 20, know 11 colors, know most of their phonics, uppercase and lowercase letters, 10 shapes and some of their numbers and I still have 3 years of curriculum to teach them. They often are worksheet intensive. My students usually are cognitively advanced from their fine motor skills. I have 4 year olds that still can't write well. If I had relied on worksheets for the last 2 years, there is no way they would have the skill sets they have. Worksheets are also not considered Developmentally Appropriate Practice [DAP] for children under the age of 8. We use them here for writing practice starting at age 4. [Yes, worksheet-intensive public schools are not using DAP for kindy through 3rd grade!] They can be expensive. If you are purchasing worksheets, why would you spend even $1 a week/$52 a year when you can purchase a 400 page Scholastic preschool workbook from Sam's Club for $8 that covers probably more material, is most likely aligned with the public school expectations, and is colorful. Colored copies are NOT affordable to make from packaged curriculum. Most [ALL!] preschool learning should be interactive. Pinterest is a better source for ideas. My students change every time I do a theme. I have to be able to tweak it to the interests and capabilities of those currently in my care. Plus, I'll find more interesting activities on Pinterest, have an idea for a new game, etc. It's a constant evolution to keep my curriculum relevant to our current group, situation and resources. However, curriculum planning and creation is very time consuming. Even with older curriculum I spend several hours going over it prior to teaching - updating, creating new materials, purchasing and setting new classroom decorations. While I have had my 3 year curriculum, this year I found myself wanting a more specific schedule to focus on specific skill sets for this particular group of children. Most of these skills can be incorporated into our themed curriculum, or they take 5 minute sessions to pop into our day. I have two groups, the younger preschoolers are 2-3 years old and the older ones are 4-5 years old, all at the same developmental and skill set level within their group. This makes it easier, as I can tailor everything to just 2 groups. If I were to have additional levels of children, then it would be tailored to each level. Children here are taught at their developmental level, not age. Asychronastic development is normal, so I may be teaching a child at various levels depending upon the subject matter. For the younger preschoolers, I came up with this structure. For the older pre-k students, I came up with this one. For instance, both of them have Measurement & Comparison on Friday for Reasoning. However, for the younger students, this would be a more/less, longer/shorter, big/little, etc. activity, while the older students would be measuring with rulers, yardsticks, tape measures, measuring cups, unit blocks, foot steps or themed units, and graphing the measurements to compare. Same skill set, differentiated at vastly different levels. Even this needs conditional tweaking. All the pre-k's know how to spell their last names now, so that is no longer a relevant skill activity for music and will be changed out. In another post I'll get into the curriculum components and the importance of each. For instance, how counting on Friday teaches 1-to-1 correspondence and creating method processes for counting groups of objects. CLICK PICTURES TO VIEW LARGER I use this MS Word template, available for FREE on TPT, for curriculum planning. Often, the daily skill sets above are either already incorporated, or can easily be incorporated, into the theme planning. For an example of a completed curriculum unit, check out our Owls Theme. Each monthly theme is broken down into 4 sub-themes. For instance: SPACE Astronauts & Rockets The Universe Our Solar System Aliens & Robots We also have a musical component, often classical, and an art component, often a master, and Spanish vocabulary component that we incorporate. This planning form may not include all games, file folder games, manipulatives, room-set up, etc. that I utilize. For those of you trained in curriculum creation, I do NOT do a full curriculum development for each activity. With having these children usually from infant to school-age, I keep an internal evaluation of progression and plan out only weekly learning objectives. Since I am creating the activities for my personal use, I do not need to create written procedures and evaluations. My curriculum is stored currently in file folders in a large office bookcase unit. I would like to get it into boxes so that I could have EVERY theme-related item, including dress-up, room set-up, manipulatives, etc. together for an easy pull. File boxes will most likely be the easiest, but they do take up a lot of space. In each file some of the things I probably have: Completed planning sheets All the books I own for that theme Flannel board Sentence and word walls File folder games Samples of previous crafts DVDs CDs Coloring pages Mini-book(s) Build-a-[theme item] game Curriculum creation is one of my great joys. I love the research and compilation, the creativity and excitement of bringing something fun and educational to my students. Learning is rarely linear. Children take developmental leaps, sometimes in odd directions. As a teacher, it is important that I keep each one challenged without pushing or inhibiting their growth, and that takes constant evaluation and a good eye for when those leaps happen so that we can move on to a higher level of instruction. When we do an activity, I constantly question if they WANT to do another round, another activity, and I usually cut them off while they are still engaged. I want them wanting more, and they will usually ask if they can continue. One of the most important desires and abilities I can instill in them is that of self-directed learning. So as they choose to go off with their rulers after we've spent several minutes doing a measuring activity, conferring between themselves as to procedures and what to measure next, I step back and let them. They know I am here as a resource, rather than an intrusive director. It is my job to ensure that when I invite my students to learn, they glow with excitement and anticipation of a fun, interactive, playful time. The results, so far, have been astounding. A few of my complete curriculum units are available through my TPT store. Apples Dental Ice Cream Penguins Rainbows St. Patrick's Day Valentine's Follow Connie -'s board Classroom on Pinterest. Tags: preschool, child care, pre-k, curriculum, development, teaching, education, homeschooling, homeschool, home, school, preschool curriculum development, planning

A collection of letter of the week crafts to do with your preschooler. The craft includes free printables and step by step instructions for A-Z.

What are some simple preschool scissor skills activities you can try with kids?Scissor skills activities don't need to be complicated!

The preschool years are a time of exploration and discovery. They are also filled with learning a lot about what makes us unique individuals. Recently, I started working with my toddler on identifying and naming body parts and reading various All About Me Books. Today we’re sharing a fun all about me preschool science activity...Read More