2013 Teach Preschool Postcard Exchange
We are pleased to announce Teach Preschool’s fourth annual  fall postcard exchange.  Over the last four years, Deborah has learned many things about organizing a
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We are pleased to announce Teach Preschool’s fourth annual  fall postcard exchange.  Over the last four years, Deborah has learned many things about organizing a
The outdoor classroom is an exciting place for exploration and play. Come and see how we have transformed our space into an amazing learning environment.
The learning environment is such an important part of having a successful classroom experience. Today, I am sharing the highlights for my indoor classroom setup.
How do you teach a child his ABC’s and 123’s? Â Well, that is the very question we asked our fellow bloggers last week. Â They linked
We are sharing a few of our favorite back to school themed posts from our back to school Discover & Explore linky.
Today, I thought I would share with you our Alphabet box we will use as part of our circletime introduction to each letter this year! Come and join our ABC & 123 linky too!
I hope my new students are just as excited to come to my classroom as my grandsons were today. I hope they want to explore, examine, and discover the things that I am in the process of preparing for them. But mostly, I hope that I will remember to tell my students all the good and positive things that I notice about what they are doing as we work together to learn about our classroom and build our community.
In the early childhood classroom, we can look at classroom management as a plan for what procedures our students will follow throughout each day as well as what the teacher’s role is in helping our students have a successful experience each day.
Exploring color with our DIY Color Scopes in Preschool!
Come and join our Discover and Explore back to school linky party!
Spending lots of late nights setting up our classroom for preschool. With only 14 more days until school starts, every second counts!
To give our students time to explore the process of mixing colors and a color wheel, we invited our students to explore water color mixing on a paper towel!
All through out the year, I give my students lots of opportunities for exploring concepts such as color mixing but along with the freedom to explore, I will often take the time to sit down with my students and walk through a concept. This lesson in color mixing is an example of such a time…
Ready for Kindergarten! is a comprehensive, yet clear and easy-to-follow book but I am a blogger who LOVES pictures! As a way to extend several (of the many) topics found throughout the book, my fellow bloggers are participating in a journey through Ready for Kindergarten! by expanding on and illustrating at least one topic of their choice through their own beautiful ideas and photos. And a give-away too!
When a preschooler is in the “play zone” it is best to let him explore without interruption! Exploring textured water play is just the ticket for getting your child into the play zone!
Adding props to playdough is just one more way to invite new interest in the playdough experience. Come and see a few of our props that we add to our playdough throughout the school year!
This simple one-inch sand-play experience invites a different kind of sand play. Affordable and Simple to set-up and open ended too!
A beginning exploration in the world of art with this fun and very open ended form of squeeze art.
You may have already heard the buzz about the remarkable and beautiful new learning resource from Spielgaben but if you haven’t you will enjoy scrolling down through the photos to see this beautiful and uniquely designed learning resource and don’t forget to enter to win the give-away too!
To give us a place to store all the tools and to give my grandson a different way of playing with them while indoors, I was inspired to create a DIY fix-it box!
I was excited to discover that the recipe for edible fingerpaint was included in the brand new book Time to Create: Hands-On Explorations in Process Art for Young Children by Christie Burnett.
While learning about the letter “P” we decided to explore with pizza! Pizza is an all-time favorite food for many preschoolers, and activities involving pizza
We want to share some ideas with you as you get ready to go back to school! As summer winds down and you prepare to
Cardboard yarn creations are a fun way to repurpose cardboard and build fine motor skills! This week, we decided to explore with yarn and enhance
Fourth of July is almost here! We have gathered some of our favorite ways to celebrate with young children. We love these ideas from fellow
Are your kids into bugs? We have some great ways to investigate bugs in your home or classroom. Our class really seems to be fascinated
Invitations to Draw are a wonderful way to spark creativity in young children! We are so excited to share with you the newest book by