
Time to hibernate
We are stuffing bears and putting them down for a long winter’s nap for a lesson on hibernation.
I spend a lot of time reading the very best children’s books I can find and then build on the ideas, characters, or illustrations from those books. The goal of each read-aloud experience is to help young children develop a love for reading and to build connections between reading and their everyday world.
We are stuffing bears and putting them down for a long winter’s nap for a lesson on hibernation.
Perhaps you are one of the many who are in the process of taking down the Christmas tree. Well don’t be too quick to think Christmas has to be completely over yet!
The Mitten is one of our favorite winter stories to share with our preschool children. Today I’m sharing a few activities to go along with the book.
A fun book and simple activity to get you talking about your sense of smell during the Christmas season.
Today, we had fun putting a new spin on the gift giving process with the help of a new book and an empty box. Come and see how we enjoyed the Gift of Nothing!
My students cooked up their own Thanksgiving feast to serve up for our classroom family. Teach Preschool wishes you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving too!
We had two different kinds of pie on our agenda but to start off our pie making experiences, we read the book “I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie.”
Holidays present the opportunity to introduce new words and ideas in our classroom. This Thanksgiving, we introduced cornucopias.
Our children just love story book games! We read a story during circle time and then often follow it up with some sort of learning activity or game. We’ve played
We are reviewing the book “End of the Rainbow Fruit Salad” and giving away one free copy so check it out!
After reading “The Looking Book,” I gave each child their own pair of lookers to wear so we could head outdoors and take our own looking walk!
Our Pre-K class explored the Itsy Bitsy Spider by making an itsy bitsy play. We began by talking about four key words in our song: spout, rain, sun, and spider.
We have been singing and reading about the Itsy Bitsy Spider and my oh my this is truly a fun song or rhyme to extend into some Itsy Bitsy waterplay!
After gathering a set of leaves, the children explored the leaves by sorting them on our table chart and making leaf confetti!
After tapping and blowing on our book, we went over to the table to essentially retell our story by exploring our own Tap the Magic Tabletop Tree!.
The kinds of games we play with the felt board are not all that complicated and all I really need are just a few bight and colorful felt pieces and I have everyone’s attention.
When I come across a picture book that has a few very carefully chosen words along with amazing illustrations, I get so excited. The book titled, “Tall” by Jez Alborough was the perfect book to get us talking about the words, “small, tall, and fall.”
Celebrating me thought this simple to make “I Spy Me!” board in our preschool classroom.
We spent time exploring numbers and drawing lines by making our own dot-to-dots after reading the book “Chicka Chick 123” by Bill Martin Jr.
While I read the classic tale of “Harold and the Purple Crayon” to my students, I invited them to tell me their own purple crayon story.
This must be at the top of the my list of favorite days/activities we did in the preschool classroom last year. Stop by and see how we built our own neighborhood!
As part of our exploration of fish, the children created their own sparkly rainbow fish puzzles!
Exploring the world of fish though art and a favorite children’s book!
Hey Teachers and Parents! Join us for the Summer Book Study. Stop by and check out who are new surprise author is – this summer should be one of our best summer book studies ever!