Preschool / Kindergarten
Mind the Gap: How to Stretch Learning Over Summer Break
With the dog days of summer settling in, and school starting up soon for some districts across the country, it is time to get our students back into learning gear.
No Stress Fine-Motor Support
There is something about watching an eight-year-old struggle to use a pair of scissors that really gets to me. It takes everything in me not to grab those little kiddie scissors out of his hand, cut the shapes out for him, glue everything down, write his name myself...
5 Tips for Making a Successful Team with your Paraprofessionals!
Let’s be honest, Preschool paraprofessionals are LIFESAVERS. If you are a general or special education preschool teacher, you might recall the dreaded feeling when you find out your paraprofessional is absent for the day. Really, I don’t think we could...
Vehicle File Folder Activities
Many of my students had a fun filled month of vehicle activities. Just to recap my students and I read the adapted book “I Spy Vehicles” and completed a vehicle identification worksheet. Then we read “Toot Toot Beep Beep” and made puff paint...
Pre-k Portraits
We create a lot of self portraits throughout the year. We start the year with the kids looking in a mirror and drawing how they see themselves. As the year goes on we create the portraits in other ways. This is one of my favorite self portrait activities to do with my...
Joyful and Illiterate? – Try Anxious and Overworked Kindergarteners
Many times I worked so hard with kindergarteners to get them to read and they could care less about letters and words. Now, they loved story time and reading a story is much more than just reading words. These students wanted to read the pictures, ask questions, tell me about something they noticed, etc. All of these observations are important pre-reading skills. However, the act of finding meaning in words was of no interest to them. And that is OK.
Creative Building Materials
One of my favorite things about working in elementary education is being absolutely blown over by the imaginations of my kiddos. I welcome any opportunity to let my students show me their creative sides. While I incorporate plenty of more traditional creative...
Making the most of Summer for Teachers!
Finally the countdown is over and summer is here! 🙂 I hope we all have had some time to enjoy the start of our break and get rid of all that crazy stress the end of the school year brings. Definitely relax and take some time to catch up on doing things that you love!...
Vehicle Bingo
Previously in speech therapy this month, my students and I read the adapted book “I Spy Vehicles” and completed a vehicle identification worksheet. Last week we read “Toot Toot Beep Beep” and made puff paint cars. This week we are playing...
4th of July Flags
Summer is here and that means it is almost time for the 4th of July! Here is an easy 4th of July flag art activity to do with your preschoolers. All you need are star garland, foam board and streamers. All the materials for this activity can be found at the dollar...Featured Products
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