Safe choices preschool

This sensory lesson includes a kindness activity for kids that is short and sweet, and makes teaching kindness a beautiful thing! Lea...

Morning greetings choices signs for Kindergarten and video examples of teachers using a morning greeting system with their students.

Day 1: Safety At Home I started out our theme by reading the book I Can Be Safe. It was a pretty good overview of all things safety, and we talked about how we need to be safe at home and when we're away from home. To focus in on safety at home we followed that with reading Watch Out At Home. This book talks about safety with sharp things, hot things, electricity, fire, chemicals, medicine, and emergencies. We stopped after each section and talked about what the characters were doing wrong…

Nicole, kindergarten teacher and creator of Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten, came up with this cute first week of school lesson to go along with David Shannon's David Goes To School that will help you address the issue of classroom behavior with your new kinders. The best part is, she provides free printables to go along with it! Using her printables, we revised the lesson a bit to suit our needs. While the original lesson shows the use of a pocket chart, we didn't have one handy so we simply…

Preschool Vibes on Instagram: "In this video, I'm excited to take you through how we manage centers during the crucial first week of preschool. With 22 eager young learners, it's essential to have a smooth and engaging approach to center time! 🎨🧩 **Free Choice, Not Rotations**: Here at our preschool, we opt for free choice centers rather than fixed rotations. This allows each child to explore activities they are naturally drawn to, fostering independence from the start. 📏🖍️ **All Centers…

Safe Place - a center where children can go to change their inner state from upset to composed in order to optimize learning.

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Today's theme was food. Here is a list of books we read: Crazy Day at the Critter Cafe by Barbara Odanka Too Many Pears by Jackie French Crunch Munch by Jonathan London Little Pea by Amy Kroous Rosenthal We played a game after reading a couple of books. I handed each child a picture of a food item. There were healthy ones, such as carrots, milk, and bananas, and not so healthy ones like cookies, french fries, and soda pop. Then each child took a turn bringing their item up and placing…

Set behaviour expectations using social stories! Perfect for Prep, Foundation and Preschool students who are learning about helpful and hurtful habits.

Implementing Greetings into your classroom routine is a simple strategy that has a tremendously positive impact on the day for both teachers and students. Greetings are a great way to build classroom community as they allow every student the opportunity to be seen, acknowledged and invited into the classroom environment in a warm and respectful manner.