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PreK teacher and creator of teacher and student friendly products for early learning
Creating a New Student File
At the beginning of the year you are busily making lots of things with students’ names on them. You think you are just about ready with everything when in walks your director or principal with news of a new student. Suddenly you need to have one of everything ready for the new student. Here are […]
Australian Animals Theme Summer Camp
After a very long time not teaching in person I was able to have students again for an Australian animals theme summer camp. Summer camps this year revolve around different countries. Since preschool students love animals I focused on the animals of Australia during this three day camp. Australian Animals Measuring Students use the cubes […]
Summer Cooking Camp in PreK
After our preschool graduation we hold several three day camps in the summer for our preschoolers. Our first camp had a cooking theme. We made the following recipes during the cooking camp: Pizza Roll Ups This was our first day’s snack. I chose something I knew most students would like for the first day to […]
About Me Theme Lesson Plan for PreK
About Me Theme Class Books For our About Me theme week in PreK lesson plans I started out over planning the number of books we would read. I forgot to think about the amount of time it would take to share our About Me bags and to read our two class books. My lesson plans […]
Family Theme and Letter P in Prek
Family Theme Block Area Family theme week in PreK seemed like a great week to get out the play house I purchased at Lidl, along with the furniture and people. This was out in the block area all week long with a variety of students playing with it. During our family theme we also found […]
Apple Theme Lesson Plan for PreK
Apple Theme Arts and Crafts We were able to fill our bulletin board, windows and even send a project home during our Apple theme week in PreK. My Apple Theme Lesson Plan for PreK included three arts and crafts projects. One project was switched after an attempt at an idea seen online just […]
Spider Web Fly Toss Game in PreK
For our Creepy Crawlers theme in PreK I like to pull out a gross motor activity for my circle time rug area during centers time. This spider web toss game idea was a great find a few years ago. It keeps my students actively engaged and burns off some energy in the spring when we all […]
Transportation Theme in PreK
Since a transportation theme in PreK is such a large topic, we usually spread it over two weeks. Transportation Question of the Day As always I started each day with our Question of the Day. Around this time of the year I change the student name tags to last names so that they can start […]
Teacher Appreciation Giveaway
This Teacher Appreciation Week definitely needs some goodness. Teachers have been adjusting to a vastly different way of instructing their students. Because of this I think we are all exhausted. So, I am sharing a teacher giveaway for a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card to help brighten your day and perhaps help you find something […]
First Week of PreK Activities
Watercolor Name Mats Our first short week of PreK is officially in the books so I can share what we accomplished this week. We started with creating our meal time name mats. I cut white card stock in half lengthwise and wrote each student’s name on them with white crayon. I also wrote it lightly […]