
All you need is a box
A great way to ignite your students’ curiosity and expand their imagination! We spent quite a bit of time exploring different ways you can use a box in our classroom.
The tendency is to think that the main focus of circletime (or large group time) should be for giving instruction or for teaching. However, the real focus of circletime is to build a strong sense of community.
Circletime is used to do routine activities like the “helper of the day,” games, music, movement, and story telling but along the way, it is important to mindful of how circletime is helping everyone get to know each other and work together to have a great experience.
A great way to ignite your students’ curiosity and expand their imagination! We spent quite a bit of time exploring different ways you can use a box in our classroom.
Telling the story and then inviting my entire class to join me to retell this wonderful story in a box together!
The children loved reaching in the mystery box to discover things that are living or nonliving!
Counting, estimating, and exploring acorns along with the wonderful children’s book “Nuts to You” by Lois Ehlert!
Exploring ants in circletime then working on prewriting skills as we explore ants in the salt tray!
Exploring “I Can Day” during our first week of preschool gave us the opportunity to discover many of the things we can do in preschool!
For our very first day of preschool, we jumped right in and explored the tools we use in preschool. The “teaching” goal of our day was to give the children
Exploring the sounds of music in a most unusual way in our preschool classroom…
Enjoying the wonderful book “The Listening Walk” by Paul Showers and playing a super silly listening game!
Building our own stories through block play in circletime…
Exploring seeds in circle time and in our cardboard box gardening center…
Counting and creating with our Dr. Seuss stripes in our prek classroom!
Using our new issue of Scholastic Classroom Magazine to help us explore all about penguins!
We had fun doing a little candy cane math and designing in pre-k!
Listening with our ears and singing together as we explored bells today in preschool!
Charting out our Thanksgiving meal and place settings in circle time!
We were busy little spiders today as we spent our day exploring spiders and weaving our very own spider webs in preschool!
Exploring upper and lower case letters with my preschoolers…
Using a story telling bag is a terrific way to promote language and literacy skills in preschool!
Colorful inspiration for your circle time routine I am so blessed each day by the folks over at Teach Preschool on Facebook! They are always giving me great ideas and