preschool games

  • Great games to play at circle time

    I love to play games during circle time because they keep the children’s interest, but I still get to teach specific concepts through the games.  It’s a great way to make sure that I am getting time to do large group instruction, but the children think it’s a ton of fun.  Here are some of the games that I love to play, these can all be differentiated so that everyone gets to be challenged, but still successful;  Letter games – I use letter cards to play a ton of games, I usually start the year with capital letter cards, and as we explore letters and the children become comfortable with…

  • New Year, New games

    After using all of my wonderful games and materials all last semester, they aren’t looking so wonderful anymore. I know that if I feel this way about them, the kids must be too, so it’s time to find some new things. One of my favorite new finds is a game called POP! The one pictured above is for sight words, but it is also available in a letter recognition/beginning sounds version. Each child draws a “kernel” when the choose their kernel they have to say what letter is on it – for more advanced children they have to give the sound that the letter makes. If they are correct then…