Easy, hands-on positional words activities for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Make learning prepositions fun!
Easy, hands-on positional words activities for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Make learning prepositions fun!
Pre-K length comparison worksheets. Compare long vs. short objects in this preschool printable worksheet.
Easy, hands-on positional words activities for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Make learning prepositions fun!
Learn about Japan for Kids with this printable book to read, color, and learn about Mt Fiji, charming gardens, and sushi without leaving home!
Hello All, Today we had so much fun with our sight word from my freebie Snowflake Slap . First I laid out all of the snowflakes on the carpe...
Is your little one getting ready for Kindergarten? If so, one way to be sure this year is a big success is by making sure your child has the Kindergarten skills they need starting from day one.
Here's a list of fun activities you can do with preschool and kindergarten using rhythm sticks!
PRIMARY SCIENCE UNIT 1 - THE HUMAN BODY We are so excited to dig into Unit 1 in our science sequence! We kick off science this year with My Body and My Five Senses . It is the perfect place to start science with our primary kiddos. This year we are going to explore and learn about the
Introduce kids to binary code by teaching them to code their names - in jewelry!
Learn how do hands work with this fun, hands-on human body project for kids. In this working model children will learn about muscles!
DIY Song Cubes to help children learn music "old favorites" and practice finding and keeping the beat; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
Make learning all about MAGNETS fun and hands on in your classroom! Use a small table or a small bookshelf to create an engaging science center full of hands on materials for students to explore and investigate using the included printables, vocabulary cards, book, anchor charts, and discovery pages (science journal pages)! Included is a read aloud book for circle time, anchor charts, and a suggested book list. There is even a half page note you can send home to families, so they can continue the learning at home and strengthen the home school connection. Bundle and SAVE! Get this product along with ALL of my other little learner science units in the Little Learners Science BUNDLE! What’s included: Labels for Organization Teacher Instruction Strategies Magnet Science Center Setup and Supplies Magnet Vocabulary Cards (two options: word and photograph or word, definition, and photograph) Is it Magnetic? Sort, Chart, and worksheet Magnetic Sensory Bottles - Which Magnet is the Strongest? Investigation Mats and worksheet Magnetic Robots STEM Challenge and Student Blueprint Pages Attract or Repel – Move the Car Experiment All About Magnets Read Aloud Magnets Science Journal Pages (three options) and Covers Magnets Discovery Pages (three options) Home School Connection Note Home Check out MORE science units! ► Being a Scientist ► All About My 5 Senses ► All About Apples ► All About Leaves and Trees ► All About Pumpkins ► All About Plants ► All About Butterflies ► All About Insects ► All About My Pet Fish ► All About My Body & Teeth ► All About Rocks ► All About Shells ► All About Trash and Recycling ► All About Space, Sun, and Moon ► All About Ice & Snow ► All About Weather ► All About Colors & Color Mixing ► All About Building ► All About Magnets ► All About Ramps ► All About Force and Motion (a study of balls) Click the green star to follow me to receive 50% off all new products for the first 24 hours a new product is posted! Visit my store Pocket of Preschool Let’s Connect! → Pocket of Preschool Website → Facebook →Facebook Group → Pinterest → Instagram → Newsletter Sign up for my newsletter and you will receive a HUGE family theme writing center filled with word cards, writing paper, write the room, a teacher page with tons of ideas on how to use it the classroom, and real photos of it in action in a classroom for FREE! Pocket of Preschool ® Terms of Use Pocket of Preschool™️. By purchasing and/or downloading this electronic file, you agree to the following terms. For personal use/single classroom use only. No part of this document may be distributed, posted on the internet, placed on a school server or shared drive, copied, edited, or resold. ALL contents of this document are under copyright protection including all content, text, fonts, and graphics, Thank you for respecting my hard word as well as the hard work of the artists whose work helped create this product.
This week I’ve fielded the same question from a few families and therapists who have emailed me about kids who do not initiate. Remember that initiating means that a child takes the lead in an interaction or conversation. Initiating is important for language development because none of us can depend on other people to read our…
If you want to help your preschoolers learn about the five senses having sorting cards they mix-and-match is a great way to do so! These printable cards have a young boy demonstrating his sense alon
Science and art combine in this amazing and simple rainbow experiment. The kids will love to make, explore and paint rainbows,
Handy free printable leif erikson for kids worksheet and coloring pages to make into readers to learn about famous early explorer!
I've always had the typical behavior kid like I'm sure most of us have ever year - blurts out, is impulsive, doesn't listen, doesn't follow directions, etc and feel like normally I'm pretty capable of handling most behavior issues in my classroom. Welcome to school year 2012-2013 and it is a whole new ballgame. My typical behavior strategies haven't worked on two of my students who have some extreme behaviors - disruptive, running away from adults, hitting, kicking, screaming, extreme definance, etc. Now, I'm aware this is starting to sound like a pity party (and I'm past that stage lol), but this isn't what the post is about. I wanted to share some ideas that we're trying with these two kiddos in case it might help some of you with difficult kiddos. I can't take the credit for most of these ideas because they were a team effort. I'm hopeful that those of you who also have difficult kiddos have a great administration supporting you. I'm very lucky to have the principal and assistant principal fully backing me along with the Behavior Intervention Teacher who we brought into the mix a few weeks ago. I'm also attending PBIS training tomorrow for my school, so I'm hoping to have some other new ideas soon too! One of the ideas that my fantastic assistant principal suggested was having a "Safe Place" available in the classroom. "Safe Place" is a designated spot where students can go (either on their own or sent by the teacher) to calm down. Since space is limited in most classrooms and I wanted "Safe Place" to be in an area where I could always see what the child was doing, I ended up taping off a large rectangle towards the back of the room. Far enough away from the direct instruction area that students can't be too distracting, but also within eyesight so I see what they are up to. "Safe Place" works sometimes and doesn't work others. I also have found that a number of kids can use it. I have a few kids who when they have a rough day, they throw a temper tantrum. "Safe Place" has worked extremely well for those students as a place to take a few minutes to calm down and get back on track. Now, for the two extreme students, "Safe Place" works sometimes and doesn't work others. Now, in "Safe Place" the extreme behavior students and I have come up with a list of activities they can do in "Safe Place" to help themselves calm down. This was another idea from my fantastic assistant principal. The two students and I sat down when they were calm and talked about some things they think would help them calm down when they are angry or upset. Both students picked hugging a teddy bear, drawing a picture or writing words, doing a puzzle, reading a story, and taking deep breaths. Now, in a perfect world someone could be back there with them directing them to pick an option when they go to "Safe Place." In the real world, that someone needs to be teaching the 20 other children in the classroom while the one child works on trying to calm themselves down. Since I can't be back there every time to help them through the process, I came up with "Safe Place" cards, which I adapted from this Power Card idea I saw on Pinterest. I tweaked the Power Cards a bit and also called them "Student's Name - Safe Place Cards" and put the student's picture on the front. See the images below to take a peek at the "Safe Place Cards." I highly recommend putting them on construction paper and laminating them. Mine didn't last a week before the student tried to rip them apart so thank goodness for a strong laminating machine :-). After laminating them, I hole punched the cards and put them on a ring so the student can flip through the strategies and pick the one he or she wants to use. In addition to putting the specific student's name on their cards I also put a picture of the student at the top. We go over the Anger Rules a lot. It's important to go over them many times when the student is calm because when they're angry they're not hearing most of what you are saying. Since I teach first grade and most of my kiddos are still learning to read, I used words and pictures. I also used pictures of the actual items in the "Safe Place" box so the student would be familiar with what was on the card. Hope these ideas might be helpful. If anyone has any other ideas they've tried with students with extreme behaviors, I'd love to hear them - add a comment below! Thanks!
Spring is definitely my favorite time of year to teach Science! There are just so many hands-on concepts that are so interesting to the students. Plants, of course, is always so interesting because they are something the kids can see all around them and they all have some kind of experience with. First up, here are some of our centers we have going on during our study of plants. This first one is the same green mat as the one below, just with different sorting objects. This is our Spring Sensory Tub. So far, it contains flowers, pots, rubber bugs, and bug cards that the students can match with the rubber bugs. This seed matching center is one of my favorite Science centers. Each large card contains an empty seed packet and some seeds. The students find the small card with the same seeds and matches it to the large card. One of the student's favorite activities was going on a nature hunt and then using what they found to create their own nature collages. And of course, no study on plants would be complete without planting our own beans! We planted pinto and lima. (The clear cups make it easy to see how the roots grow!) Want to completely amaze your Kinders?! Just change white carnations into colored carnations with food coloring and water! At the end of our unit on plants, I split the students into five groups and they made posters to present to the class about what they learned. Watching them work together and figure it all out on their own is always my favorite part of group projects. I wrote the title for each group on a piece of paper, but the students did all the planning, writing and drawing on their own. "How to Plant a Seed" "Plant Needs" "What We Know About Plants" "Types of Plants" "Parts of a Plant" Update: I have created a Living & Nonliving Mini Unit to continue our study of living and nonliving things. You can see it on Teachers Pay Teachers, here. Or you can read about it on my newest blog post, here.
Easy, hands-on positional words activities for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Make learning prepositions fun!
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My kiddos love this game and BEG to play it again and again. The beauty of it, well.. it's also a great informal assessment! I use this with my Junior Kindergarten (ages 4 and 5) up through first grade. This is based on a similar one in Gameplan. The song and graphics are my own and so I am not stepping on Jeff and Randy's toes by sharing it with you but will give them all the credit for the game!! :)
Teach kids about temperature as they perform easy science experiments with hot and cold water and the our free printable.
Have you ever had to teach with no voice? You know, that situation where you don't feel sick enough to call off and write sub-plans but can'...
A Jar Full of Feelings is a visual sensory regulation activity to help children recognize and respond appropriately to their feelings.
Learning to read is such a fun and special time: it's a valuable skill, and sparking an early love of reading can make it become a lifelong passion. In order
50+ Simon Says Ideas for kids. Easy ideas for toddlers and older kids! Free printable pdf included with the list of the Simon Says actions.
Our rainy, rainy spring has finally ended and now it’s HOT! We hit the high 90’s yesterday (haven’t hit 100 yet, so that’s good). The younger boys and I took advantage of the hot sun and did a simple science experiment with melting. This is SO easy and really interesting for the preschool and kindergarten […]
Make a ping pong ball float with EASY Bernoulli principle experiment demonstrating how airplanes fly. FUN physics science experiment!
Want to seem like an excellent math teacher? Play the substitution game. It is worth 1000 worksheets. It's never boring and it's different every time.
The topic for today’s activity was Light and Shadows. We did some fun and educational Light and Shadow experiment to learn about shadows.
No study of architecture and engineering would be complete without talking about the Great Pyramids. Egyptian architecture is as mesmerizing in the 21st century as it must have been mystifying when they were constructed. And thanks to Bubble Guppies, a subject of great fascination to my preschool and toddler too! Egyptian Architecture…
Determine the Left and Right directional position in this printable worksheet.
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
What does dyslexia look like in preschool and pre-K children? Here are dyslexia signs you might see in 4-year-olds.
Learning about the five different parts of the rock cycle with this fun Starburst Science Experiment.
Practice identifying the five senses of smell, see, listen, touch and taste with this printable worksheet.
