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PreK teacher and creator of teacher and student friendly products for early learning
PreK Christmas and 5 Senses Centers
Since I work in a Christian early learning center, the month of December is filled with planning for the arrival of Christmas. We also spend time talking about our five senses during the first couple of weeks of December. Please check out some of my first week of PreK Christmas. PreK Christmas on the Easel […]
Christmas Fine Motor, A Deal, and A Giveaway
December in my PreK classroom involves lots and lots of Christmas, with many opportunities for fine motor practice. Christmas Fine Motor in Dramatic Play One that the students always love is decorating the Christmas tree in the dramatic play area. The photo above is from a few years ago. A few students thought that it […]
Transportation Theme in PreK Lesson Plans and Class Book Cover Printable
With so many fun ideas for a Transportation Theme in PreK, we keep this theme for two weeks. Transportation Theme in PreK Sensory Bins My Transportation Sort Activity fills my sensory bin on week one of the Transportation Theme. I added a couple staples to each card after laminating so that the magnetic fishing pole […]
PreK Color Theme Lesson Plan
PreK Color Theme Sensory Bin What would a PreK Color Theme be without colorful cereal? This year I decided to fill my sensory bin with a box of colorful cereal from Aldi. I placed some colorful sorting bowls (no blue since this cereal did not have any) and some tools for picking up the cereal. […]
PreK Apple Theme Lesson Plan
PreK Apple Theme is a very busy one in our classroom. We create several arts and crafts projects, make apple sauce as well as play in the apple orchard and play with lots of apple themed centers. PreK Apple Theme Craft One craft is the apple core project, made with paper plates. The leaf is […]
PreK Pet Theme Lesson Plan
Arts and Crafts for Pet Week A PreK Pet Theme has so many possibilities when it comes to arts and crafts. Our main two projects are mostly process art projects that we complete on a familiar pet shape. For cats, we dip yarn in paint and drag the yarn around the paper. I choose paint […]
PreK Family and Home Theme
PreK Family and Home Craft For my PreK Family and Home Theme I pulled out some ideas I have used in the past as well as adding some new ideas. I am pleased with this mash up idea for building a home with the people (and pets) who live with my students. Be sure to […]
PreK All About Me Theme
A PreK All About Me theme is a great theme to do in the beginning of the school year. It gives you the opportunity to get to know your students and for them to get to know about each other. All About Me Craft For this year’s PreK All About Me theme I knew I […]
Back to School in a New Way
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 […]
School Theme PreK Lesson Plan
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 […]