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Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that your holiday is wonderful and relaxing! *Card image from Snapfish*
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Tips for celebrating Thanksgiving with little ones
Do you have any young children attending your Thanksgiving celebration? I wanted to make sure to share one of my most popular posts because it is full of tips for avoiding meltdowns and keeping toddlers and preschoolers happy on Thanksgiving day. You can check that post out here!
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Family Engagment – Discussing Thanksgiving
I like to take any opportunity that I can get to involve families in my classroom discussions and investigations, so I created this great freebie in order to find out a little more about each of my individual students’ family Thanksgiving celebration. Send this questionnaire home with your students to find out what each of their Thanksgiving celebrations is like. Ask them to bring it back after the holiday and compare and contrast the foods that they ate, what they liked and did not like, and give children the opportunity to share their own special traditions. This is a great way to help little ones understand that their families have…
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Friday Freebie – Holiday Checklists
Happy Friday! We’ve made, just a couple more days until Thanksgiving (and hopefully a nice little break), and then we rush headfirst into December. If you have given any thought at all to everything you have to get done in December – even if just to dread managing all of it – then this freebie is for you. I am so excited about this Holiday Checklist Sampler from Ladybug’s Teacher Files. You put your students’ names into one list and it automatically fills all of the lists for you, so you have easy checklists to help you make sure that everyone has finished their gifts for their families and you…
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Favorite Things – Preschool Teacher Edition
Every year I channel my inner Oprah to share my favorite things with you. My hope is that this list will help you shop for gifts that your favorite preschool teacher is sure to love, just like I do! All of the links below are Amazon affiliates, here’s the list for 2016: I love my Alex and Ani bracelets because they can be casual or dressy – which is perfect for a preschool teacher’s wardrobe. I also love that the price point makes them an ideal gift for any occasion. I always have a water bottle with me, and my current favorites are glass bottles with a screw-off lid. This…
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Preschool Gift Guide 2016
I know that we haven’t even celebrated Thanksgiving yet, but since the official start of the holiday shopping season is next Friday that means it’s time for my annual gift guides. The following items would be perfect for the preschoolers in your life – these would also be great gifts for any preschool classroom! All links are Amazon affiliates. If this Green Toys Salad Set doesn’t inspire healthy eating then I don’t know what will. I love Green Toys because they are made of recycled materials, and their food sets are so much fun, make sure to check out the Pizza Set too! A play kitchen is an amazing holiday…
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Toddler Gift Guide 2016
I know that we haven’t even celebrated Thanksgiving yet, but since the official start of the holiday shopping season is next Friday that means it’s time for my annual gift guides. The following items would be perfect for the toddlers in your life – these would also be great gifts for any toddler classroom! All links are Amazon affiliates. These Boon Water Pipes are the best bath toys! They suction to the wall of the bathtub and each pipe has a different function. Toddlers can explore them each on it’s own, or line them up to create a pipe maze for the water to flow through. This will definitely help…
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Infant Gift Guide 2016
I know that we haven’t even celebrated Thanksgiving yet, but since the official start of the holiday shopping season is next Friday that means it’s time for my annual gift guides. The following items would be perfect for the infants in your life – these would also be great gifts for any infant classroom! All links are Amazon affiliates. I always include these Sassy Ring’O Links in my infant gifts for a couple of reasons; They are simple toys that are safe for the smallest infants to grasp and chew, they don’t take up a ton of space making them easily portable and perfect for the diaper bag, they are…
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Friday Freebie – Family Trees
Happy Friday! Can you believe we are over a week into November?! This year is flying by! I wanted to do something a little different today – don’t worry, you’ll still get a freebie! I actually shared this brand new freebie in my post on Monday but I wanted to share it again just in case you missed it. This Family Tree Freebie is a fun way to help your students explore their families. Use this set to help children explore their families. Send each child home with a tree background and a sheet (or half sheet) of leaves. Families can write names and relationships on the leaves. This family…
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Books about Families
I’m always full of great book recommendations, here are my favorites for starting discussions about families (Amazon affiliate links): The Family Book by Todd Parr All Families are Special by Norma Simon A Family is a Family is a Family by Sara O’Leary Families by Shelley Rotner and Sheila Kelly My Family, Your Family by Lisa Bullard What are your favorite books about families? Share them in the comments!
