Learning through play is both fun and effective! Get your kids involved with numbers with this FREE number activity! If your kids love Trolls as much as mine, they will love this! Free Number Activity Your Preschoolers Will Love! Teach Through Play (This post contains affiliate links. See my disclosure here.) Students…
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My Simple Trick That Keeps My Classroom Library Organized [Free Download]
Is your daycare or preschool library area always a mess? Mine is! Who has time make sure the kids always put their books away nicely?! But I also hate it when books are laying all over and end up broken. Scroll down to see what I did about it and get your free printable! Free “Book Return…
Spring Read and Color Books for Emergent Readers
Spring has sprung! Or at least, the calendar says it has and the weather is trying to catch up around here. My kids can finally go outside to dig in the dirt and sand, instead of the rice sensory bin that inevitably gets tracked throughout the house! So I thought I’d make a few new products to…
6 Reasons This Community Helpers Pack is the Best
Do you do a Community Helpers theme in your classroom? This Community Helpers Pack not only meets social studies learning standards, but literacy standards too! Here’s 6 Reasons This Community Helpers Pack is the Best. 6 Reasons This Preschool Community Helpers Pack is the Best 1. This Community Helpers Unit Is Easy to Use Every printable…
Free download! Bright Weather Poster for Preschool Circle Time
Free Weather Poster I made this simple weather poster for my own classroom. I don’t have a ton of pocket charts, or even the space for them. We do our weather review with this poster! I have this printed on a regular 8.5×11 page and laminated. I usually hold it during morning meeting and go over each…
Letter Game for Fun Phonics Practice! [FREE Download]
You probably already know that kids who can tell the beginning sounds each letter makes are better prepared for school and go on to be more efficient readers. So I made this game so we can have easy and fun phonics practice in my own preschool program! Your Preschool Needs This Fun Letter Game [FREE Download] Letter Matching…
Spring Color by Number
Spring Has Sprung! Well, almost. I’m not sure whether to think Punxsutawney Phil was wrong this year or not. The weather has been springy, then wintry all over again here in PA! Actually, I know where that groundhog happens to live-and it’s not at Gobler’s Knob! I might just go give him an earful….
Dinosaur Number Fun
Dinosaurs are fun! Why learn numbers with dinosaurs? Because why not! My preschool boys are obsessed with dinosaurs right now. So I did my best to “follow the child” and create a pack that would engage my kids and help them to learn those number names that some of them struggle with. Counting with Dinosaurs Book…
How to Easily Teach Kitchen Safety in Preschool
How to Easily Teach Kitchen Safety in Preschool One of our daily topics this week was Kitchen Safety. Since I always try to create my plans around my state’s learning standards, I started searching for a relevant standard to tie in to our lesson. Fortunately, kitchen safety fits right in to PA’s Early Learning Standards. By…
Making Letters Fun with Alphabet Coloring Pages
Every preschool teaches the alphabet. For good reason! The letter names are one of the first things children will be learning when they start kindergarten. Even young kids can learn some of these letter names and sounds. This gets them ahead of the game and they’ll be more prepared for school. Why Simple is Better Preschoolers and kindergartners are different. For…