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Who doesn’t love a sale!?
Teachers Pay Teachers has just announced that they have reached 3 million members! To celebrate this milestone they are throwing a SALE! This is pretty huge because Tpt only has 4 site wide sales all year. I’m excited because this will be my first sale as a Tpt Seller, but also because I have a huge wishlist of great preschool and organizational items that I can’t wait to purchase! I’m trying hard to keep my list small, but there are a few things that I will definitely be buying. Here is a sample of what is on my wishlist: TPT Seller’s Best Friend TPT & Blogging Planner by Crayonbox Learning. This…
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My documentation process
Documentation is something that has become a natural piece of my job as a teacher. I am constantly taking notes about what my students are doing. It’s one of those things that I do without thinking, those notes are so important because I can take my scribbled notes and turn them into a polished documentation, having the notes already written down cuts my panel-making process in half. Even though my notes save me tons of time, the role that I’m in at my new school doesn’t leave a ton of time for creating panels and other items that I really want to do for the classroom. I’ve solved this problem…
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Weather basics – an experiment
This weather experiment is super easy, and I’ve done it with my classes for the last few years, but my kids love a good science experiment, and are super into weather, so I got it out again. It’s pretty basic, you fill a clear container with water and top the water off with shaving cream, the shaving cream is supposed to be a cloud. Then you put a few drops of food coloring (blue is suggested because it is supposed to be like rain, but I usually let the kids choose whatever color they want) on top of the cloud, and eventually the food coloring will saturate the cloud and…
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The best art activity ever – Primary color mixing
This activity is one of my all time favorites, it is completely open-ended, and children love it as much as I do. I start by covering an entire table in white paper. This is important because it really encourages collaboration between the children, and they can see the colors that they have created on the white background. Then I set out cups of paint – red, blue, yellow, and white (you could also use black, but then everything seems to turn black). I tell the children at the beginning that they can mix the colors all they want. They love this! Some times when I do this activity the children…
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Sweet Letter practice
Last year my class created our own sandpaper letters and my students were so proud of their alphabet! I wanted to do something similar with this group, so I used some Valentine’s day inspiration to make this alphabet a little sweet. The group I have now is working on lowercase letter recognition, so I wrote all of the lowercase letters on pieces of cardboard. When I presented the activity I showed the children how to use the glue to “trace” the letters. Then I gave them sugar shakers that held a mixture of cocoa powder and baking soda (because cocoa powder is expensive!) and they shook the mixture over the…
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Exploring Knowledge Creatively
During our preparations for Valentine’s Day, we have also begun our class project for the semester with some very basic discussion of tornadoes. The boys are fascinated, and when I was finally able to get out our tornado tube they dropped everything and worked with it for an entire afternoon. This was some of the most authentic learning I have seen in months, and at that moment I knew that we had found that coveted project topic They have a pretty good understanding of the basics, seeing as we get some pretty bad storms in the summer months, and most of my students were affected in some way by a…
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Our Valentines
If anyone is looking for a great Valentine’s Day gift that kids can make, here’s what we did this year: These turned out even cuter than I had imagined, I would love to get one of these (if I had kids of my own, that is). The bottles came from Scrap 4 Art, one of my favorite places! After cleaning them thoroughly I dug through the scrapbook paper stash to find paper that was colored on both sides, I stuck with red, but you could do any combination of Valentine’s colors. The kids punched the hearts – they got to choose how many they wanted to put in their jar,…
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The messiest activity ever!
I have a class full of boys, so they aren’t super interested in the Valentine’s day activities that I have done with groups in the past (however I suspect that may change next week when half of my plans include candy hearts…), but yesterday we did an art project that had them hooked. I know you’ve seen this one on Pinterest, that’s where I first saw the idea. I was sure the boys would love it, but I was wholly unprepared for the mess that it would make. The idea is that you put a piece of paper on a tray or cookie sheet, then stretch rubberbands across the tray.…
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Cute Calendar Work
There is some debate over whether calendar is really developmentally appropriate for preschoolers, so I might as well add my two cents. I do calendar every day for a couple of different reasons. The days of the week and the months of the year seem like fairly abstract concepts, but when I show the children what they look like on the calendar, they can visualize what all of these words mean. Number recognition is also something that a lot of my students struggle with, especially now that my Pre-K kiddos are getting into the teens and beyond, the more opportunities that I can come up with for them to use…
