When we have our full center time in the morning, nothing is off limits. That means I have blocks, library, manipulatives, sensory, computer,...
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Tell us about your first day of school. Did everything go as planned? What sort of activities did you do? How is your new class? Any tough...
Yes, I label all of my centers. I also have a visual that shows them how many people are allowed in each center. I also have a piece of paper...
I just got a cute one from ABC Teacher Outlet. It's a giraffe and it shows you how tall other animals are so the kids can compare. It was $10.90...
Choosing jobs is a great time for name recognition. What I do is write each child's name on a crayon. Each day is a different person's turn to...
I'm trying to make the same decision for my class of 10 three/four year olds right now. We start in September. I have tried 10 different jobs...
I have 3's and 4's and we have a story on tape for 20 minutes with the lights off, then sleeping time is an additional 1h45m. I'll begin to...
My advice related to classroom management is to be consistent and follow through! If you tell them what the consequence is for not obeying and...
I'm also doing All About Me in the fall. We'll do it for three weeks and talk about class rules, themselves, and their families during that time.
pattern blocks Pattern blocks are a must have! I have been amazed at some of the creations a four year old can come up with....
I do the same thing you are talking about and I just use Google Images. I can usually find a picture that is pretty close, if not exactly the...
That sounds like a lot of fun! I love that you brought in a real tent.
We do show and tell each day. I can only have up to 10 students, so each one is assigned a day of the week. That makes one or two students each...
At three years old, they're just starting to become more independent. That's something I focus on a lot in my class. I make sure not to do easy...
We are a child care facility so we don't have breaks like Christmas and Spring. The 10 paid holidays are the only days we are closed. The 3.5...
I know "letter of the week" is very popular, but I learned in school that isn't a good way to do it. I don't really know of any other...
For those with 3/4's- I am wondering what you do to teach letter recognitions and letter sounds to your students.
Private, non-profit: Teachers are hourly and we get 3.5 weeks of vacation the first year and about 10 holidays.
Almost all of my class has the cot roll like jlj was describing. They can be rolled up and hung on their coat hooks in the hallway. Works great.
