St. Patrick's Day can still help you teach your standards when you bring in quality, free printables. With St. Patrick's Day themed printables to cover math, language arts, treats and make it all feel fun - you can bring St. Patrick's Day green into your classroom. Here are 26 free downloads for primary grades on bringing the Luck o' the ...

The afternoon teacher and I went out for lunch at the end of the school year and planned out our themes for the 2012-2013 school year.  I thought I would share them with you, so here goes: August:  Family and About Me September:  Community Helpers October:  Fall November:  Fairy Tales December:  Winter (also Jan Brett author study) January: ...

Assessments play an important roll in understanding how much a child knows and where we can better meet their needs.  Assessments also helps students identify their own areas of strengths and weaknesses.  As educators, we uses assessments before, during and after learning, but they can also be fun for the kids. Today I used our whiteboard ...

Montessori Monday Frog Pond Trays We are studying frogsand ponds this month.  For MontessoriMonday I wanted to do a post about our trays. I get quite a few questions and comments on where I get my items and howI set up my classroom.  I am going togive you some tips on how to set up interesting trays in your classroom and athome.  This is a duck ...

Montessori Monday Math Madness Why and How? This week for Montessori Monday I decided to write about Montessori Math.  I wanted to tell you why I LOVE Montessori Math and how it works. Why? Let me start off by saying that I am TER I BLE at math!!  I just didn’t get it.  I am incredibly visual and kinesthetic and if you said to me what is the ...

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, the boys and I explored a few Valentine's Day learning actitvities during preschool time with my 2 year old and 3 year old. Finding ideas was so easy this year because I had downloaded the heart book. It's an ebook with over 100 crafts and activities for kids-- all with a heart theme! It's only $5 and ...

100 days of school!!  This year has been flying by, I cannot believe it!  Today was our 100th day of school it was wild, crazy, a little bit dangerous but fun!  We were lucky to have an amazing parent helper stay for our special day.  We started out our day making our 100 day crowns.  Then we headed to circle time to count our chart and to see ...

In this version of counting kitchen kids will be counting out ingredients to make 5 different types of soup:  Chicken noodle, Broccoli Cheese, Cheesy Potato, Minestrone, and Tomato Basil soup.  This file folder game is perfect for the preschool/kindergartener to practice their counting skills.  Also as a new feature in this game ...

While making the Counting Kitchen game I kept on thinking that this would also be a great way to teach ESL kids the English names of food.  So I also created this ESL version of the game.  On the recipe card the ingredients are in Spanish while the ingredient cards are in English.  [...]

The essence of who we are today largely depends on how we were educated as youngsters. Because early educational development is the precursor to our more advanced education, it is vital that parents take an active participation in helping to form the cognitive functions of their child’s minds. One of the most critical skills that [...]