Teach Preschool

When I told the children that they actually can have eight legs like an octopus, they told me that this could not be possible. So I had to show them that they could!

Ready for Kindergarten offers simple to follow guidance and tips for where to focus your energy, how to support the learning that naturally takes place, and how to make the most of your child's pre-kindergarten year.

Exploring the concept of floating vs. sinking with the help of nature items we collected around our preschool!

This year we had more dandelions than I have ever seen surrounding our wooded area so we put all those dandelions to good work in our preschool classroom.

Exploring our names and other shapes through window tracing!

A child's name is very special and this simple watercolor activity turned out to be a fun and colorful way for our students to focus on the letters in their name.

Our children love to create fold-over paintings. So it was no surprise that they all really enjoyed making these beautiful butterfly fold-overs to decorate our classroom.

Here is my secret recipe for helping the preschool-age children in my class take care of our classroom books!

My class did such an amazing job exploring this flower painting process at the easel that I just can't help but share our latest experience!

Painting up bright and beautiful flowers with a water bottle and a fork! A super simple and yet amazing way to put a little spring on the art wall!

Today I want to share with you a few ways I try to get the most value out of the bookshelves I have in my preschool classroom.

Creating a mini-greenhouse and planting beans! Now we can watch our beans grow in preschool!

We took our Earth day ball outdoors on a bright and sunny day and played a game called, "Around the World!"

Extending our pirate story with a few props for dramatic play and story telling...

We love making fingerprint bugs and flowers and now we have a new fingerprint pad to help the process run more smoothly!

Making and playing with the most unusual yet fun plant: the Venus Fly Trap in preschool!

Along with new growth comes an invitation to spend our morning hunting for different colors of nature and creating our own drip-drop nature paintings.

Come and see these five tips shared for taking preschool journals outside.

Exploring our first and last names with a paper name puzzle in preschool!

Exploring bubbles in a bottle gave us a unique way to explore many new scientific and engineering terms in our preschool classroom.

This week, we brought out the levels and have been exploring balance in preschool.

I spent some time jotting down tips from my own experience in exploring journals in the preschool classroom.

Exploring the wonderful resource provided by Scholastic and how we use "Our Big World with Clifford" in our preschool classroom.

Explore Earth day anytime throughout the year with these Earth day discovery bottles!

In our continued celebration of Earth day, the children explored the process of pinning the things we care for to a rather unique DIY globe!