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Big sale news!
I hope that you haven’t used all of your shopping energy already, because TPT is having a BIG sale. Mark your calendars for Cyber Monday AND Tuesday – yep, two days of sales on awesome stuff for your classroom, it really is the most wonderful time of the year! The month of December is chaotic, it just is, but I can help you with your lesson plans and holiday parties, which means less time spent planning! Check out my winter activities, they’re all on sale for two days! Don’t forget to enter the code TPTCYBER for extra savings! Happy shopping!
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Friday Freebie – Black Friday DOUBLE Freebie!
Happy Black Friday! Thanksgiving is over and it is officially the Christmas season (in case you didn’t know!). I’m putting up my Christmas decorations today so I thought I’d share two cute Christmas Countdown freebies with you – and no worries, one of them include a “Winter Countdown” if you want to (or need to) be politically correct. This Santa Countdown is awesome because it’s interactive. Each day your students can glue a cotton ball to Santa’s beard until his beard is full and Christmas is here. What a super cute idea from Speech Sprouts! These Countdown Posters couldn’t be easier to use, there are four posters to chose from,…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope that you are enjoying your day with family and friends – I know I’ll be spending mine eating way too much! Made on Tagxedo
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Holiday Gift Guide: Preschoolers
If there is one thing that I’ve become really good at, it’s recommending great gifts for little ones. This is the perfect time of year put my expertise to good use, and share my knowledge with you! This guide is a list of things that any preschooler on your list (and their parents) will love. You’ll notice that there are a few brands I’m in love with, these are brands that I know are high quality because I’ve used them in classrooms, and I’ve seen them live through the crazy things that little ones like to do to them. All of the links are Amazon affiliate links, but many of…
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Holiday Gift Guide: Infants and Toddlers
If there is one thing that I’ve become really good at, it’s recommending great gifts for little ones. This is the perfect time of year put my expertise to good use, and share my knowledge with you! This guide is a list of things that any infant or toddler on your list (and their parents) will love. You’ll notice that there are a few brands I’m in love with, these are brands that I know are high quality because I’ve used them in classrooms, and I’ve seen them live through the crazy things that little ones like to do to them. All of the links are Amazon affiliate links, but…
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Favorite Things – Preschool Teacher Edition
It’s almost Thanksgiving, which of course means that it’s time to start thinking about Christmas (didn’t you know that?!). I love gift guides, I use them all of the time to find the perfect gifts for my friends and family members, but my favorite lists are the “Favorite Things” lists (thank you Oprah), because they help inspire my own Christmas list. This year I put together a list of my favorite things for school – these aren’t necessarily the best supplies for the classroom (but I do have a great Preschool Classroom Supply list), but rather, products that make things a little bit easier for me throughout the day. These…
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Friday Freebie – Drawing a Wedding Cake
Happy Friday! Today’s freebie may seem a little random, until I tell you that my little sister is getting married tomorrow and everything happening today and tomorrow is part of that celebration – even my Friday Freebie! My students love to draw, a passion that I share with them, so they are constantly asking me how to draw something – they know that I won’t draw it for them. This freebie is something that my students would love. This cake drawing set is from Art with Ms Gram, and it is broken into easily understood steps that even young children could follow. It is also a great way to introduce…
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A Peaceful Thanksgiving – Tips for Avoiding Holiday Meltdowns
Thanksgiving is supposed to be time to relax and enjoy family, time to take a few minutes to recognize the blessings in our life. You aren’t alone if your annual Thanksgiving celebration is anything less than stressful and overwhelming. There is food that needs prepared, family members to please, extra furniture to set up, grocery shopping to do, not to mention arranging schedules to make sure that you are present at every family celebration. In all of this, kids often get less to their own devices, and end up making messes that need cleaned up, and arguments that need solved. By taking a few minutes to prepare simple activities to…
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Preschool Social Studies Activities
It’s Wednesday, so it’s time for me to round up some activities that meet a specific standard, we started social studies last week, so we’ll continue with that domain today. Remember, the Standards that I use every day, and am most comfortable with are Ohio’s Early Learning Development Standards – you can review them here, however I’ve found that even if your State’s standards differ, many of these activities can still be aligned similarly. I’ve rounded up some great ideas today!Domain: Social StudiesStrand: HistoryTopic: HeritageHelping children learn about their heritage can be a ton of fun, but it can also be very confusing. To make sure that talking about heritage is…
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Book Talk Tuesday – 101 Kids Activities
Since it’s Book Talk Tuesday I have to take this opportunity to share a book that I just got, that would be an AMAZING gift for any kid (or teacher) in your life. If you have a child, teacher, parent of young children, early childhood education student, or teen who loves to babysit on your holiday shopping list, you need to check out 101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! This book is by Holly Homer and Rachel Miller, you might know these two ladies as the team from Kids Activities Blog, which means that when it comes to writing a book about activities for kids, they are,…
