Oh. My. Goodness. I am still pinching myself, while I was in Dallas I had the most incredible opportunity. I got to have dinner with blogging superstars! It was so nice to meet all of these wonderful ladies, I’ve followed many of them for years, and they were so wonderfully generous to share their great tips and ideas with this blogging newbie. I have to say a huge thank you to Vanessa from Pre-K Pages for organizing the meet-up, Holly and Rachel from Kids Activities Blog for sponsoring the meet-up, and my awesome friend Jamie from Play to Learn Preschool for including me! I also got to meet:  Debbie from…

I am super excited about celebrating Easter this year. Not only did I have a day off yesterday (a beautiful and very rare occurance), but it is warm and sunny here and after the winter that we’ve had, this is a miracle worth celebrating! Because I’m so happy about spring, I’ve got two awesome opportunities for you: a giveaway and a sale! I’m participating in a giveaway over at Here’s an Idea by Lucy (it is amazing to me that she is celebrating 5,000 Pinterest followers, 5,000!). If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that when TPT sellers do a giveaway, they REALLY do a giveaway, she’s got over $200 worth…

Creative Teaching Supplies is doing a giveaway to celebrate their 200th follower and I got to be a part of it! There are some really great prizes up for grabs, including my Phonetic Letter Books (one of my all-time favorite resources, I use mine at least once a week). There is still time to enter, go check it out at Creative Teaching Supplies!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you know about a great link up that is taking place over at First Grade Salt Life. Head on over to check out the amazing Easter Resources and add your own!

I’m so excited to be participating in my first giveaway.  Laura From Differentiation Station Creation is doing a Giveaway to celebrate her success on Teachers Pay Teachers and to thank all of her supporters. You can check out the prizes and enter the giveaway here!

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Hi everyone, I am so excited to be back to this blog of mine! A lot has happened since I last posted, and I have some big ideas for using this little space, so I hope you’ll stay with me for this journey. Because of all of the changes, both in my life, and to my blog, I feel the need to start over a bit.  So here is a little introduction for those of you who are new to preschool ponderings: I’m Erin. I recently started a non-profit Early Learning Center with a group of incredible Early Childhood Teachers.  When i’m not teaching myself how to use Quickbooks, figuring…

We have been searching for an easy way to share pictures with parents and we are in love with smilebox! It’s an incredible website that lets you fill cute scrapbook, slide show, and photo album templates with your own photos and share them through email. Smilebox also lets you print your creations so we always print ours to have in the classroom as class books. Smilebox also has templates for newsletters, invitations, and stationary, and teachers can use it for FREE! It doesn’t get better than that! www.smilebox.com

Finding new materials to use on the light table is something that I always have a hard time with, but when I saw some gorgeous shadow puppets on pinterest I was psyched to try shadow puppets on the classroom. Some of my children have been talking about their own shadows, now that we have some spring sunshine, and I remember enjoying shadow play myself when I was very young. If you search shadow puppets on pinterest you will find some very beautiful examples, but they were a bit too elaborate for my needs. I made these by printing some clip art animal shapes and tracing them onto black card stock.…

Here is a great idea for you after Easter clearance finds! We used our plastic eggs to make math matching game. Here are the super simple instructions: take two sets of plastic eggs, one large size and one mini size, match up the colors and place number stickers, matching numbers on matching colors. This is an amazingly easy game that can be played in a number of different ways1. Matching the large number eggs with the small number eggs, when you make a match you get to put the small egg inside the bigger one.2. For your younger children just have them match the colors.3. Add a smaller manipulative (ex:plastic…