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Getting to Know You Activities
Meeting new friends and building a classroom community are top priorities at the beginning of school. These getting to know you activities will help your preschoolers learn about one another as they play games and have fun together. As a result, the school year will be off to a great start when your students discover how much we all have in common! The Hello Book I love to use The Hello Book on the first day of preschool! It’s a simple way to help the kids learn who everybody is as you sing and wave hello. Most importantly, it makes each child feel extra, extra special when they realize they’re…
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Teaching Kindness to Preschoolers
Letters and numbers are important but we also need to teach kindness to preschoolers. How do we do that? Can we really teach someone to be kind? Yes, most definitely we can! Preschoolers are eager to imitate the adults they are around so it’s essential we are modeling compassion, understanding, and empathy in the classroom. Our choice of words and tone of voice will be observed on a daily basis. The way we handle minor accidents and mistakes will be scrutinized. Preschoolers see and hear everything! But don’t worry that it’s on all your shoulders. Here are a few ideas I want to share for teaching kindness at school. Teaching…
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Back to School Math Activities
It’s Back to School time and I want to share how you can use your favorite children’s books with math activities! Yes, that’s right! Books are fun to read but they can also help your students practice counting, number recognition, sorting, and more! Math activities based on the stories you read will be meaningful to your students while they help tie your lesson plans together. Books You Can Count On for Back to School There are plenty of great Back to School books to pick from and you’ll probably have a hard time fitting them all in during the first few weeks of school. I actually keep my School themed…