What kid doesn’t love pizza? My kids would eat pizza every night if I let them. In fact, that’s what inspired me to make these FREE Letter Sounds Pizza Puzzles. Scroll down to download them for yourself! This post contains affiliate links. Read my disclosure here. Prepping the Letter Sounds Printables First, you obviously need…
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How to Easily Get Students Interested in Writing
Getting young students in preschool or kindergarten interested in writing can be a huge challenge. Especially when they’re not used to sitting at a table and working for any length of time. Fortunately, there is one topic every student LOVES to talk about: themselves! Seriously, just think about how many times a day are you…
How to Teach Your Toddler With Cheap Printables
Are you a mom of a toddler? Or maybe a daycare provider? If you want to give your little one an academic head start, but don’t know where to begin, this post is for you. And the best part is that you don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on a curriculum – tot school…
FREE Parent Handout: This Is Actually Why We Play
There’s so much more to kindergarten readiness than letter recognition. Maybe it’s because I’ve always wanted to be a teacher…but it baffles me that families don’t understand that 3, 4, and 5 year olds learn better through play than worksheets. Here’s a FREE parent handout to send home to help those families recognize what play…
How to Teach Emotions in Preschool and Avoid Meltdowns
Most people picture preschool as a room full of 4-year-olds running rampant and screaming at each other while you try to keep the classroom from catching fire. And it does feel like that some days! So here’s some research based tips to help your preschoolers keep their emotions in check and display self control. How…
How this Free Bulletin Board Header Can Increase Focus
How this Free Bulletin Board Header Can Increase Focus Limit Decorations to Increase Student Focus Did you know that most of your decor should be useful or student created? Teacher created or purchased materials that are just for decoration can actually be visually distracting and hinder your students’ focus. Posters and displays are fine if you…
The Only Way to Use Worksheets in Preschool
The Only Way to Use Worksheets in Preschool Benefits of Using Worksheets There are a few reasons I like to use worksheets in my classroom: Encourage thinking and fine motor skills Build stamina and focus needed for kindergarten Show parents what we’re learning about Easily assess students’ abilities However, there’s also a lot to consider…
Make Better Readers with this FREE Simple Printable
As teachers, we all know that reading is important! The more preschool students are read to, the better they will develop necessary literacy skills. Here’s a fun and cute reading log printable to help encourage parents and preschoolers to read at home, too! Make Better Readers with this FREE Simple Printable Reading at Home I’m…
This is What Happens When You Use a Preschool Focus Wall
Have you seen all those awesome looking focus walls all over Pinterest? Me too! But I teach preschool, so the kind with written out objectives and all that jazz won’t work too well for me. So what’s a teacher to do? Improvise, of course! Keep reading to check out my preschool focus wall and the…
Simple Story Elements Made Practical and Fun!
Story elements are a common topic for preschool and kindergarten classrooms. But how do you teach and assess knowledge of story elements to a group of students who can’t read independently? Here’s how I do it! Simple Story Elements Made Practical and Fun! Back to the Basics Remember, preschoolers are not ready for “formal” instruction….
