Story retelling is a preschool and early elementary skill that should be practiced often. Here’s some Nursery Rhymes worksheets to help your students master their story retelling skills! Teach Story Retelling with Nursery Rhymes Retelling familiar stories is both a Common Core Kindergarten standard and included in Pennsylvania’s Early Learning Standards for Preschool. It’s important…
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The Preschool Circle Time Routine That Will Make You Love Your Job
Preschool circle time is an important time of our day! It signals the beginning of “school” time for us, a transition from free play to educational activities we do as a teacher-led group. Keep reading to see what I mean! The Preschool Circle Time Routine That Will Make You Love Your Job (This post contains…
How to Use Brag Tags in Preschool Without Losing Your Mind
Have you heard about brag tags? I see them all over Pinterest! At first, I didn’t think they would work for me. But then I was intrigued, and decided to give them a try. Keep reading to see how we use our Brag Tags in my preschool class! How to Use Brag Tags in Preschool…
How to Make a Pretend Play Driver’s License for a Transportation Theme
Do you do a transportation theme with your class? We do! My kids LOVED these driver’s licenses! They were a great way to practice writing and recognizing our names. They wore them and talked about them all day! Here’s how to make them for your class. How to Make a Pretend Driver’s License Step 1:…
6 Fun and Easy Preschool Color Activities [FREE DOWNLOAD]
Colors are a common preschool learning topic. Some kids come to preschool already knowing the color names, but just as many do not. Or maybe you’re doing tot school, teaching kindergarten, or Head Start and looking for printables. No matter where you teach, these preschool color activities are going to make teaching colors fun and…
FREE Editable Star Name Tags
Name recognition is an important preschool lesson! Even young students can learn to recognize, spell, and write their names. From speaking with kindergarten teachers I know that this is important to them, as well! They wish every student would come to school knowing their names. These simple stars can help with that! Take a look….
Preschool Science Activities – A Year’s Worth of Lessons in One Download!
The preschool science activities in this notebook are some of my FAVORITE resources to use! I literally use a page of it every week to review our science lesson. And these preschool science activities are easy enough for preschoolers and kindergarteners. Check it out! Preschool Science Activities Have It Your Way You can use these…
How to Make a Cheap and Easy Sight Word Center
Centers are the core of a quality preschool classroom. You can include sight words in your alphabet center or writing center to introduce sight words to preschoolers. This will help them learn to differentiate between letters and words. More advanced students may start to recognize and read the words. So here’s a super easy way…
FREE Number Activity Your Preschoolers Will Love!
Learning through play is both fun and effective! Get your kids involved with numbers with this FREE number activity! If your kids love Trolls as much as mine, they will love this! Free Number Activity Your Preschoolers Will Love! Teach Through Play (This post contains affiliate links. See my disclosure here.) Students…
Spring Read and Color Books for Emergent Readers
Spring has sprung! Or at least, the calendar says it has and the weather is trying to catch up around here. My kids can finally go outside to dig in the dirt and sand, instead of the rice sensory bin that inevitably gets tracked throughout the house! So I thought I’d make a few new products to…
