Pocketful of preschool

FREE Editable Name Cards perfect to use all over the classroom to help preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kiddos learn their names. #names #preschool #learnnames #pre-k #namecards

Open house is an exciting time! It’s the first time families and students see the classroom. It’s when students and parents meet the teacher for the first time. It can...

Check out these all about me activities designed for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students. These are great for the beginning of the year and creating a classroom community!

Let's chat about the hardest thing in the classroom. Classroom management. Implementing a behavior management system that has a day-to-day structure and addresses challenging student behaviors is imperative for success. Creating a caring classroom environment with visual supports, classroom routines, intentionally teaching social skills, and effective planning are critical to effective classroom management. Then the learning can occur.

See my favorite rereading and retelling books and ideas that I use with my preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.

Journal writing with little learners is SO MUCH FUN (once they get the routine down)! It makes my teacher's heart overflow to see them drawing, writing, and sharing their ideas! I get to see them fall in love with writing and see themselves as writers! What a gift! In this post, I'm going to tell you all the details about how to implement journal writing in your classroom and get your kids excited about writing, too!

WAHOOO! The BIG classroom reveal! I made some new additions to my rainbow classroom this year and kept all my fun makeover items from last year, too! When I was taking the pictures for this post, I thought of a few more things I wanted to update. It is always a work in progress! I am always adding new activities, taking out the old, putting up new student work, taking down the old, and organizing.

Teachers and families are always asking me what my "must have" hands-on math activities are for a preschool or pre-k classroom, so I made this post with my favorite math activities from Lakeshore. Students need to be counting and manipulating real objects that are FUN and engaging! Friends, these are all of those things!

15 classroom organization hacks to make teaching easier that every preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and elementary teacher should know. FREE theme box labels too!

We know that children learn best through play and experiences. We firmly believe that children learn by doing, getting messy, investigating their questions and problem solving with their friends. They learn by playing games, using their imaginations, expressing their emotions, creating and exploring the world around them.