fruit salad At the last preschool that I was at, we always had a fruit feast at Thanksgiving. I've since done it every year and had great...
size of class I am in a parochial school that started a 4K program this year. I have 16 students and the other PreK teacher has 17. Neither of...
Love and Logic Love and Logic is what I use in PreK- also with 3's and even 2's. There is an edition written for preschool. I love using chosen...
Art projects? We do our academic work in small group and some art- if there are specific instructions, but mostly art is open-ended.
centers I have all my centers set up, but not all open yet. I haven't got my science center open or the sensory tub. I thought I'd be able to...
Rainbow Fish lesson I feel the same way that Blue does.- [I]'d make sure that your superior knows that cutting isn't what you're focusing on and...
laminator I bought a small hot laminator last year and used it a lot- so much so that it burned out! I replaced it with a Scotch- brand one and...
Rewards JMHO, but I've never believed in behavioral rewarding. I think it needs to be an intrinsict reward, brought about by knowlesge that...
first day I'm glad you had a good first day- wish I could say the same thing! By the end of the day, I was ready to cry- went home and had a...
Journals I have used journals- even with an advanced group of 3's one year after Christmas. I love it! I rarely use prompts, but do when a...
behavioral charts I use a modified version of Love and Logic, but I read yesterday that we'll be using a "thinking chair" or time-out. I've...
Oh, this is why I do this... Congrats on a wonderful job! Those are the kind of things that make you really realize that what you do DOES...
class size I have a total of 16 in my class this year, but five of them will go home at lunch. It's a bigger class than I've had before in the...
Number of children in centers I've read lots of ideas, involving what seem to be work-intensive for the teacher. I don't want to do that much...
discovery bottles When I introduced them 8 or 9 years ago, the kids really liked them. But the past few years, they haven't. I might have...
Last year, i started the year with 4 out of 10 that couldn't write their names. One of the activities that they do when they arrive is to either...
1st thing in the morning I've been going back and forth as to what to do. Most years, I've had the kids do their names several ways, and then...
I just remembered this and had to share. One year, when I was teaching 3's, it was clean-up time. One of the little girls had been watching...
problem school I really feel sorry for you- I was in it seems the exact position that you're in, a few years ago. The other teachers treated me...
Names I have their names written EVERYWHERE, it seems. I buy seasonal baskets and use seasonal notepads to write their names on and we check...
