School Theme in PreK Crafts Since it is the beginning of the year, school theme crafts are simple and go along with books being read this week. The school shoes craft above is great for practicing using glue sticks, assessing whether students have ever used stickers, and noticing if students recognize right side up for […]
Teddy Bears is our theme for our first three days of school. Along with Teddy Bears, we also spend time assessing and working on skills that will be used throughout the year, including cutting, dot markers, qtip painting, liquid watercolor painting, and various name related activities. Teddy Bear Math and Literacy Centers For our first […]
It’s time for a Back to School Sale! How Summer Has Gone We finished summer camps, hired a new teacher, and finished Vacation Bible School. So this week we emptied our classrooms of all but the large furniture in preparation for floor waxing. Church members will help move all the large furniture on Sunday into […]
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 […]