Building My Back to School Rainforest Bulletin Board Normally I use my bulletin board in the hallway to display student work. However, for our Open House I did not want to leave it blank so I came up with a Rainforest bulletin board based upon our room theme that I would add student work to […]
Welcome to School in PreK Start with the familiar at the beginning of the year. We start with learning to recognize our names in many ways. Each child gets a chance to build his or her name with these jumbo cubes. You can find the printable letters that fit the cubes in my Jumbo Cubes […]
Teddy Bear Theme Questions For our first short week of PreK we celebrate a Teddy Bear Theme to help students learn about their new classroom. Each day starts with a Question of the Day like the one above. The teddy bear themed questions can be found in the Rainbow Bears Centers in my shop. My […]
I am still in love with the rainforest theme, so I am able to keep several decorations within my classroom. This gives me some time to get creative with my bulletin board to begin the year. Once the year starts the board is mostly covered with student work, but I wanted something fun on the […]
Welcome to a new year of back to school in PreK. My class size is much smaller this year, but we are excited to be back in the classroom. Each year during our back to school time I focus on student names. From finding their names to respond to our Question of the Day to […]
Our School theme in PreK was full but not overwhelming. I am still getting used to having twelve instead of sixteen students, so I have been thinking that some activities will take longer than they actually do. Because of this I was actually able to get pretty much everything on my lesson plan completed this […]
It is finally time for back to school so we are ready for our Sneak Peek Open House for PreK. Sneak Peek Open House Classroom Door Since I did not get an entire year as Rainforest Friends, I am keeping this theme for another school year. I did freshen up my door with some leaves […]
Back to school time is finally here after a very strange spring and summer. To celebrate that Teachers Pay Teachers is having a one day sale on Tuesday, August 18th and I am having a Back to School Giveaway of a $10 TPT gift card. The sale code is: BTSBONUS20 which will help you save […]
Some time between the end of one school year and the beginning of the next I go through my sliding drawers of theme based supplies and reorganize them. Some themes get put away elsewhere for the year, while I make space for different theme materials. I had a few PreK theme labels that were quite […]
I am taking a look back at how I started last year with my Rainforest theme classroom as I get in gear to set up for a brand new year: After a whirlwind week of getting everything back together after waxing the floors, we had our Sneak Peek of our Rainforest PreK classroom. Classroom Door […]