It’s hard to believe, but the first month of 2017 is already coming to a close! That means I need to get my butt in gear if I want to look good on the beach this summer ? That also means that Valentine’s Day is coming up! Valentine’s Day is not a huge deal in my…
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An Easy Brain Break That Will Help Your Students Focus
An Active Brain Break That Will Help Your Students Focus Get Rid of Winter Wiggles Are your kids more wiggly and have a harder time focusing during the winter when they’re cooped up inside? I know mine are! Not to mention the way the holidays and snow affect our school days and everyone forgets the…
All About My Family Freebie!
With Thanksgiving quickly approaching (where did November go?!), we’re spending some time in PreK discussing families and thankfulness. Here’s some freebies I’d like to share from some of my best selling packs! Click each photo to get the PDF for download. The first page is from my All About Me Interactive Notebook: A Cut and Paste…
Day and Night Sorting Activity Freebie
Friday sounds like a great day for a freebie! This week in our preschool lessons, we learned about Day and Night. So I made for reference for my preschool munchkins, and wanted to share! Scroll down to get this printable for yourself! Day and Night Sorting Activity Freebie As you can see, this printable is…
How to Teach Printing the Easy Way
How to Teach Printing the Easy Way Learning to print letters is a new focus in kindergarten. For maybe the first time in their lives, students are expected to recognize and write letters. This is challenging for a lot of kids that are just even learning the letter names! Keep reading for my insider secret to…
B is for Bus and Boat!
This was B week for us. Today we learned about buses and boats! We started with Morning Meeting and reviewed our letter name and sound we had learned earlier in the week. Then we read about Buses and Boats from our A Beka Book curriculum and talked about the discussion questions. We don’t have the…
A is for Alligator!
After a week of passing a virus around, we’re finally back on track. This week is the start of our Letter of the Week curriculum. Today we learned about alligators! These Animal Friend posters are from A Beka Book. There is text on the back to correspond with each poster. We learned about how…
Color Names Coloring Pages
Yay for back to school! I waited until after Labor Day to start my curriculum this time. With a family wedding I was photographing (and my kids were both in! Yikes!), I just wasn’t prepared for school yet. And I’m still getting everything daycare settled with the move. In fact, I have a voicemail from…
Learning Living and Non-Living
Who doesn’t love a good freebie? When I was creating some mini-lesson plans for this summer, I can across a standard that addressed differentiating between living and non-living things, as well as knowing that living things need air, water, and food to survive. I wasn’t able to find exactly what I wanted to complete my…
How to Teach Vocabulary in Preschool
How to Teach Vocabulary in Preschool A child’s vocabulary is ever increasing, especially in preschool and before. Understanding and using vocabulary is a foundational part of kindergarten readiness. Keep reading to find few easy ways you can encourage your children’s language development. Why Vocabulary Matters Learning the names of colors and body parts is something we teach in preschool and…