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Join me for a preschool classroom tour as we explore the setup for the last two weeks of Octobe | Join me for a preschool classroom tour as we explore the setup for the last two weeks of October. I refresh my classroom every two weeks to maintain a... | By Preschool Vibes | We're ready for another preschool classroom tour. Check out what my classroom looks like for the second half of October. Our classroom tree has now changed to fall. Students painted paper at the easel to create those. At the light table, students can create letters using these translucent lines and curves. When they come in the door, we're doing the letter G. G grapes. G grapes. At the Play Doh Center they can create monsters. Using toothpicks and googly eyes. We're also going to show them how to use a ball of Play Doh and one of these dowel rods and they're going to create a pattern. Green. Purple. Over at the writing center, we have our Halloween word cards. We always have a set on the board and on the table. They can also create the five little pumpkins on the gate for our five little pumpkins poem that we've been learning and over here, they're going to make their own pattern by gluing on shapes. They're going to copy this one, heart, star heart, star heart, star heart. At the easel, they're going to use Q-tips to paint leaves on these trees. At the art table, we're working on Frankenstein directed drawings for our donuts with grown ups event and we'll be moving on to our jack-o-lanterns. So, students will paint entire page orange which we have some of those done. Um they'll choose their shapes because we're working on shapes this month and they will also draw their circle and cut it out. So, there's lots of skills going on into this art project. Over here at the messy table, students are going on a letter scavenger hunt. So, they're going to find a rock and then match it over here to our board. We're learning all about pumpkins at the science center. So, they're going to hammer in golf tees into the pumpkin here. We have our pumpkin books and we have corn with five little pumpkins in here. They have to find the five pumpkins and then on this tray, we're carving a pumpkin all together as a class on Monday and then I'll bring it over and so they can open it up and just explore it more. Over here at the library center, we have lots of pumpkin and Halloween books. Our listening center book is Leaf Trouble. It's our letter table with the letter G. And all of the activities that they can do here. This has been one of the favorite centers recently. I would say that this one is a letter search with Ben of Pluffle has been the favorite. These are the pumpkins we're going to be carving for our group lesson. Here's my five little pumpkins poem that we're learning together. We're going to recite this to our grown ups when they come for donuts with grown ups. Here's our question of the day. Would you rather write a tractor or pick apples. So that's how they sign in for the day and I take attendance. Here's our letter wall. We're learning all about the letter G. We're going to be reading Go Away Big Green Monster and then I'll transfer this over to our library center so they can retell that book. Um we're going to be reading Mouse's Pumpkin Home. So this is a visual craft story. So I will be telling the story as I fold this paper in half. It's going to be opened up and turned into a pumpkin so they absolutely love that. You can find that on my website. Um and here some of the books that I'll be reading. Oh goodness. Let's see. So I put my favorite books in this bin and the ones that I don't typically read as a read aloud go over in my library center. So we're learning this is owl. Our new wow words are bear and nocturnal and those are in I think some of these books here. Night Animals. I think that's got nocturnal in it. They love their five little monkey songs. So that's a good one. If you're a monster and you know it. Uh this has the word bear in it. Uh B A R E. We're learning all about the baron means empty. They love that one. Oh we read that one that one needs to go. We read that for the letter D if you give a dog a donut. Um pumpkins. This is the one I read when we when we carve our pumpkins. So this is has some really good information about pumpkins. Leonardo The Terrible Monster. That's one of my favorites. So those are the books I'll be reading for the next few weeks. We have a tub for dress up for Missus Wishy Washy. Um and they are absolutely loving this. I had the grandma of one of my students come in and she shared this with them and she left it for them to reenact. Here at the Synergize Center. They're going to be working together to create these shapes. Shapes is one of our in the month of October let me show you my October standards with everything you've seen so far you can see that not just in my large group lessons but throughout my centers I'm embedding all of the standards that we're working on we can name shapes we can sort we can hold our pencils and crayons we can measure and compare we can understand patterns so those are all throughout our room and safety cards we can follow safety rules so we talked a lot about that before going on our field trip but I also have these safety cards that we read one each day talking about safety rules Learning about patterns. So our high five over here is patterns. This changes with the different skills that we're working on. I can make a pattern. Cat, cat, dog. Cat, cat, dog. I can make a pattern. Cat, cat, dog. Cat, cat, dog. We're keeping our pumpkin patch for one more week because students are loving it. We know that C says and O says ah or O like open. So they change this to open. They go on a tractor ride, pick pumpkins, rake up leaves, or pick apples. At our mega center. I have regular letters and then I have magnet lines and curves. So I am going to have them choose a letter and try to create that letter with lines and curves. Over here in the block center it's kind of random. We have some wheels and tubes. We have our car ramps that you can change out the ramps here. We have our magnetile roads that are new. We always have our wooden blocks out. And we always have our ramps and cars. What I'd like to them to do with the foam Legos is it's a measuring activity. So I have tape Around our block center here. So their job is going to be to see if they can build a tower against there or away from there to get to the top of the tape.

68K views · 999 reactions | This week kicks off our "Shape of the Day" series, extending over the next few weeks! Each day, we spotlight a different shape, displayed on our shape poster. To reinforce learning, we integrate fun shape songs from YouTube during our daily song time. Plus, each student receives a mini shape card. We use these cards for an interactive song prompting kids to stand up when their shape is called! Another hands-on activity involves using shape punches; students start with triangles, using a glue stick to apply mini triangle punch-outs around a large triangle outline. It’s a fantastic way for them to practice fine motor skills while learning their shapes! | Preschool Vibes

784K views · 9K reactions | Counting Houses | Boost your preschooler’s counting and subitising skills with our fun Counting Houses activity! Subitising—recognizing numbers at a glance—is a crucial... | By Happy Tot Shelf - Raising Happy Learners | Facebook

9.7K views · 180 reactions | Explore the letter ‘A’ at our hands-on, multisensory letter table! This independent, free-choic | Explore the letter ‘A’ at our hands-on, multisensory letter table! This independent, free-choice center features buttons throughout the table. Each... | By Preschool Vibes | Teach your preschoolers the letter A. This is my hands on multisensory letter table. The first thing we have is our letter A poem and they're going to take a dry erase marker and circle all of the A's that they find. And then they're going to make a letter A out of flow. This is on my Play Doh letter mat. And then we have our tactile letter A. This has glue dots on it so it makes it bumpy and they say A says ah. A says ah. And this is a hot. so they have to match the capital A to the lowercase A. This is our play foam sand and they're stamping the letter A into the sand. If they don't remember the letter, they can press this button. A says ah. This is our alphabet artistry. They're going to trace the letter A and then they're going to make capital and lowercase A's all around the page and then they're going to cut it out. Over here they can write the capital or the lowercase A in sand. A says ah. Shake it to erase. I teach them that their finger is their pencil. This is the only thing that's touching the sand. When they need to erase it they just shake the tray. This is a hunt and find they're hunting for all of the lowercase A's. And over here they're going to use mini animal erasers to cover the capital in the lowercase A. A says ah. A says ah. A says ah. A says ah. I change up these activities each week to keep students active and engaged in loving this table. This past week, this was the favorite center of the week.

1.5K views · 172 reactions | 🎉✏️ Shape exploration in action! We are fostering early literacy skills by using dry erase guides in our writing center. This hands-on activity helps our young learners explore basic shapes while developing essential pencil grip. Engaging children in meaningful activities promotes their love for learning from a young age. The center is free choice, which acts as an invitation for little ones to explore writing as they feel ready to do so. You can find this Basic Shapes theme printable on my TPT or comment ‘SHAPE’ to have the link sent directly to your DMs. #PreschoolFun #LearningThroughPlay #EarlyLiteracy #KidsActivities | Early Childhood Education Resources | Isaintjames · Do Do Do

176K views · 5.3K reactions | 🌟 Problem-Solving in Preschool: The Foundation for Learning 🌟 In this video, we dive into why | 🌟 Problem-Solving in Preschool: The Foundation for Learning 🌟 In this video, we dive into why problem-solving is the cornerstone of preschool education.... | By Preschool Vibes | Facebook

7.8K views · 82 reactions | In this video, I'm sharing my favorite books for our 'All About Me' theme. These stories help celebrate each child's individuality, emphasizing the idea that everyone is unique—there's no one else in the world just like you. Alongside these engaging reads, I introduce the word "unique" to my students, discussing its meaning and the importance of embracing their own distinct qualities. | Preschool Vibes

6.2K views · 49 reactions | Writing on a vertical surface offers significant benefits for developing fine motor skills, and | Writing on a vertical surface offers significant benefits for developing fine motor skills, and the Glowscape's little light pens are fantastic for... | By Preschool Vibes | Facebook

11K views · 216 reactions | In this video, I’ll show you how I teach the five senses and incorporate them into different ac | In this video, I’ll show you how I teach the five senses and incorporate them into different activities throughout my classroom. We explore each sense... | By Preschool Vibes | For the next few weeks I'm going to be teaching all about five senses. Let me show you how I integrate it into my classroom. I introduce the five senses by creating Mister Potato Head. He's made out of felt and I build him as we talk about our eyes are for seeing, our ears are for hearing, our nose is for smelling, our mouth is for tasting, our hands are for touching. We're going to read that my five senses book and then these other ones will read throughout the next few weeks. I also have these ones. I'm busy highlighting them because I do love them but little bit too long for preschoolers so I I'll highlight the words that I want to read. So when I'm the five senses. I like having pictures so that they can see. I touch with my skin. I see with my eyes. I taste with my tongue. I hear with my ears. I smell with my nose. And here's a lesson we're going to do on describing. So I'll pick a couple of these and we're going to describe mud. It looks brown and gooey. It feels wet and squishy. It taste yuck. Don't eat it. They might not use those words but I'm going to encourage them to describe how they would look, feel, taste, smell, and sound. For our sense of smell lesson, I'm going to fill jars with kitchen items. We have pickles, ketchup, all of these things. So we'll get in a circle and we're going to pass it around and smell and try to guess what was inside. For our sense of touch lesson we're going to go outside and take off our shoes. And students are going to step from one bin to the next describing how each one feels. At the end we end with a bucket of water and a towel for them to clean off their feet. We're also learning the letter C this week. So for our large group lesson we are going write the letter C in shaving cream. So that's another one of our touch lessons. For our sense of hearing I have a YouTube video that I play where it has a curtain that makes a sound. They have to guess what it is and then the curtain opens and they can see what it was. Um we'll also go on a listening walk. So I do this as part of another lesson just before recess. We're going to walk all the way around the playground and we're going to be so quiet. We're going to really focus on the things that we hear outside. And then for our sense of taste lesson everybody has a plate at the table before snack time. It's going to have something salty, sweet, bitter and sour. So they'll have a little piece of a lemon. They'll have cocoa powder, a piece of chocolate, and a pretzel. And one at a time we're going to pick it up and we're going to try it. So as we're talking about it they can know this is sour. This is salty. This is bitter. It's funny because cocoa smells so good. Doesn't taste so great. At the art table this week with my assistant. She's going to be finger painting with them. Putting two colors that mix together and they're just going to go to town having fun finger painting and before they're done they're going to write their first letter of their name so that it dries in the finger paint. And then the following week when we're still working on five senses she's going to make flubber with them. And they can take that home. So that's like a a really fun slime. I staple the recipe to the bag so that the parents can make it home as well if they'd like. Our centers we have our sense of touch bin at our science center. So these items are inside the box and they're just using their sense of touch to decide which one it is. Um these ones are using their sense of sight and their sense of hearing. At the messy table we have our we're using our sense of smell. These are unroasted coffee beans that we got donated to us and they smell amazing. We're also using our sense of smell at the writing center. All of these utensils are smelly markers and crayons. And then the same thing at our Play Doh Center. I took red, yellow, and red, yellow, and blue Play Doh mix it together and added cocoa powder. And it makes a nice brown and it smells delicious. So they're making chocolate cupcakes here. And finally when we're all done with our five senses unit. I have a popcorn maker. I have everybody in a big circle. And then we're going to use all five senses. So I'm pour in the oil and the popcorn and we're going to wait and the first thing that we notice is there's steam coming out so we're using our sense of sight and then pretty soon we can start to start to smell it and then the best part is when we start hearing it pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. First, before we before we pop the popcorn, I send it around a little kernel and say, how does that feel? Oh look, it's so it's so tiny and it's hard and then that popcorn turns into crunchy and fluffy. So, they're going to feel it afterwards and then the best part, we get to taste it. So, we use all of our senses when we're making popcorn.

6.5K views · 66 reactions | Join us as we kick off our Letter of the Week program! Starting this week, our High Five Letter will be featured at the door all week long. This means the letter high-five review remains consistent throughout the week, giving students ample opportunity to focus on and reinforce their understanding of that letter. Meanwhile, the other high five skill spot will continue to change daily to keep learning fresh and engaging. This approach helps solidify letter recognition and sounds, providing a strong foundation for literacy development. Watch how our students interact with the High Five Letter each day, making learning both fun and effective! | Preschool Vibes

12K views · 4.7K reactions | Get outdoors and give this a try. Gross motor skills are so important and can be developed by several activities like this one. And best part, you don’t have make several times. Make one time and it stays for a while. Perfect way for them to burn their energy while mastering the skills. Follow for more @learnwithkidscrafts #kidsactivities #grossmotorskills #openendedplay #outdooractivitiesforkids #outdoorplay #grossmotorplay #kindergarten #preschool #activitiesforkids #toddleractivities #momlife #learnthroughplay #playbasedlearning | Nisha Yadav| Your Key to Easy Learning Activities | aguualfonso · Original audio

104K views · 2.5K reactions | 🌟🎭 Teaching Problem-Solving Skills in Preschool 🌟 Welcome to a special glimpse into one of t | 🌟🎭 Teaching Problem-Solving Skills in Preschool 🌟 Welcome to a special glimpse into one of the most crucial parts of our preschool... | By Preschool Vibes | Here's how I teach my preschoolers to solve their own problems. This is one of the biggest lessons of the entire year and it's really important that you focus on it during the first month of school so that it makes the rest of your school year much easier. I teach my students that they have to choose at least two of these problem solving skills before they come get a grown up. Unless somebody is really hurt, then they can come straight to me. Friends, you are big boys and girls now and you can learn how to fix your own problems. When you have a problem, here's what you can do. Everybody gets a puppet. They're going stay in their lap as I teach the problem. Before they bring their puppet up, I'm going to have this and I'll say, one of the ways that you can fix your problem is you can say please stop. It's really important to use your words. So, if somebody's doing something that you don't like, you need to say, please stop. I don't like that. If you're a problem solver, say please stop. If you're a problem solver, say please stop. If a problem has you stuck, here's how to change your luck. If you're a problem solver, say please stop. Please stop. I don't like that. Please stop. I don't like They're going to turn to their friend next to them and try it. Hey friends, puppets down. Another way that you can solve your problems is you can be patient and wait. Sometimes you won't be able to get exactly what you want when you want it and you have to wait nicely. It's really hard to be patient but that's what problem solvers do. Be patient and wait. Let's try it. Puppets up. You're a problem solver. Be patient and wait. If you're a problem solver, be patient and wait. If a problem has you stuck, here's how to change your luck. If you're a solving be patient and wait can I have a turn with that what I'm not done yet okay I'll wait puppets down okay another way that you can fix your problems is you can say how you feel your friend is not always going to know what you're thinking so you have to say how you feel feeling sad and you just want to be alone and somebody's trying to talk to you you can say I'm feeling sad I just want my space if you're feeling mad somebody did something somebody took something from you you need to tell them that makes me feel really mad when you take my toys say how you feel Alright, puppets up. If you're a problem solver, say how you feel. If you're a problem solver, say how you feel. If a problem has you stuck, here's how to change your luck. If you're a problem solver, say how you feel. It makes me sad when you don't share your toys with me. Okay, so we're going to repeat that entire process with our problem solving cards. Now, I think I have fourteen of them. You're just going to pick the ones that you feel are best for your preschoolers and I'm going to when I'm done teaching these, I'm going to hang them on my wall at my take a break They're right by my chair so that when I'm teaching, we can also point to these problem solving skills all year long when we're talking about a problem and what we could do to fix it. So, if you're a problem solver, ask politely. If you're a problem solver, you can share. If you're a problem solver, walk away. If you're a problem solver, play together. If you're a problem solver, use kind words. If you're a problem solver, say I'm sorry. If you're a problem solver, play with a new friend. If you're a problem solver, use a timer. If you're a problem solver, take deep breaths and then after you have chosen two of these problem solving skills and if you still have a problem, if you ask somebody to stop and they wouldn't stop and then you walked away from and they kept following you and doing the same thing, then, you can get help from a grown up. If you're a problem solver, get help from a grown up. Let me show you my take a break center. Here's what my take a break center looks like. It's important that this is in a quieter part of your classroom. Now, I know that's kind of tricky especially in small classrooms but I have it next to my library center next to our group time rug which is empty during center time. So students can come here anytime they would like. I might send a student here that's really having trouble solving their problems. So we have all of our problem solving skills listed on the wall here. We also have them in a smaller format so they can flip through. We have a sensory mat and lots of other sensory toys here. So they can come here just to calm down, to relax, to be by themselves. This is for one student. So all of my centers have name spots and this is for one student to be at. Um This is one of my favorites. It's a feelings mirror. They can pull up one of these feelings and then try practicing that feeling in the mirror and help them understand their emotions and then I have a three-minute sand timer. So, if they choose to come here on their own, they can stay as long as they want but if I send them here, we're going to talk about how they could solve their problems better, what they could do, and then we have a three-minute sand timer that when that sand timer's up, they can get up and find a new center.

116K views · 2.5K reactions | 📊✨ Streamlined Preschool Assessments: Finding the Balance! ✨📊 In this video, I delve into the | 📊✨ Streamlined Preschool Assessments: Finding the Balance! ✨📊 In this video, I delve into the world of preschool assessments, sharing my perspective on... | By Preschool Vibes | I'm truly convinced that the people making assessments have never actually been teachers. The assessments that we get from the state are just so overwhelming, so much data, and you'll never actually use it. So, I want to teach. I don't want to be assessing all of the time. So, the Ohio's preschool assessment, they want you to embed the assessments within your day and with 22 students, if I had to sit down and figure out if they know one letter in this book and one letter in this book here or there, I would literally never teach. They're my own assessments that give you a baseline knowledge on your students and then I create two goals for my students based off this assessment and I try to get through the assessments really quickly because this isn't for a report card they're not being graded I want to use this to inform my teaching. I need to know what can I do to help them grow. Um so I'm going to share with you my preschool assessments that I do. So this is my assessment binder that I will pull out and I'll have the students sit next to me here and I'm going to point to the colors to see if they know them. Um we have shape identification, number identification, one-to-one counting, depending if you have threes or fours are where you want where your goal is to count. We have a ten sheet and a 20 sheet. You can also use objects for one to one counting. Um capital letter identification, lowercase letter identification, letter sounds, and those are the pages I need for this assessment. Now, let me show you what the students page looks like. As I point through the colors, I'm going to circle the ones they know. In the fall, they're going to be circled in green and I'm going to use the same assessment paper in the winter and the spring just using a different color so that I can see what they knew in the fall, how much more they grew in the winter, how much more they grew in the spring. Um I don't reassess the ones that they've already told me because again, this is not for a grade card. It's just to inform my teaching. As they do shapes, I'm going to point to them and I'm going to circle the ones that they know. The same thing with numbers. I'm going to circle the ones that they know. I'm going to have them rope counting and counting objects. So, first they're going to count they're going to count as height as they can. So, during this, I'll close my binder because they don't want to be looking at anything they're just going to count as high as they can. Um on here I'll also so I'll write their final number but then in I'll write like what they where they stop. So if they said 1416 I'll put 1416 in Princess. So then one to one counting they're going to count these objects here and I'll put that number down. Um capital letters. So let me show you what I do with this. Because some students are going to know a lot of their letters. Some will come in not knowing any at all. I'm going to start with their first letter. So if it's Sophia I'm going to say do you know this letter? If she says I'm going to go to letters that are typically known. So a lot of the students know X, do you know this one? No. Do you know A? No. If I get to like four letters and they don't know any, then what I'm going to do to speed up this process because three and four year old shouldn't be sitting here for long at all. I'm going to just run my figure out and say follow me. Can you stop and tell me if you see a letter that you know. Okay? So this might not be 100% accurate. But that's okay. It could be very frustrating if they're sitting here for too long. So you can kind of tell if they are familiar with letters or if they're not. So I'll do the same thing with lowercase letters. And then I do not test letter sounds unless they know at least half of their letter identification. This is again going to be all in green when I'm testing in fall. I'm going to check off the ones they know. Capital, lowercase, and letter sounds. Next is their name writing sheet. So I'm going to give them this name writing sheet. And I'm going to cover up the bottom. So I have a folded paper so this is just a folded piece of copy paper going to cover up the bottom two so that they don't see them so they're only using these lines right here I want you to write your name the best that you can when they're doing this I'm going to be checking to see their pencil grip so are they holding it with a tripod grasp with a fist grip with four fingers just checking that and then they have to recognize their name during center times to grab their name tag so I can know right away if they've been able to do that or not so I circle yes or no and then I ask them if they can spell their name for me and then also I'm circling for left or right handed. Now, after this, I'm going, they're going to be done with me and I'm going to let them go play and this is the time that I'm really going to just be thinking through I'm going to be watching that student for a minute but I'm also just going to be thinking about the things that I've seen in the class and pretty quickly I can pretty quickly I can score these social emotional skills. And that's it. It doesn't have rhyming. It doesn't have patterns. So there are plenty of standards that are not on this assessment. Um and I do have a class checklist that I use throughout the year. So it doesn't mean that I'm not checking to see mastery of those skills when I'm teaching rhyming I have a class checklist and when I pull them for small groups for rhyming, I'm going to give them a one, two, or three. I know where they're at with that but it's not on our assessment that I do three times a year. So, this is what has worked for me. If you'd like to try this, it's on my website, Preschool Vibes. com.

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