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Early Childhood Educator
Monday, September 6th, 2010
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"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."
~ Robert Bresson
1. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR
PREK CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT RULES:
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Need a few tips to get your classroom management down to a science? Okay, maybe not always a science, but perhaps more finely tuned.... Try these tips and strategies.
PREK SUBSTITUTE FOLDER:
It's all here, in a clear and easy format. All you have to do is fill in your own requirements and you're ready for any sub, with your folder close at hand.
ALPHABET ASSESSMENT:
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A printable student response sheet is included at the 2nd link above to review alphabet assessment with your kindergarten classes. Directions and a teaching assessment chart are downloadable at the 1st link.
ALPHABET POSTERS:
Wow! This poster is really colorful and charming, and will certainly help your students to recognize the letters of the alphabet. Print it out and assemble it for your classroom, in four parts.
LARGE ALPHABET CARDS:
Generate your own color flashcards with this utility, with both upper and lower case letters, as well as pictures to go with the sounds.
CHECKERBOARD LETTER TILES:
Just in case you missed them, here are our popular and printable checkerboard letter tiles. Use them for various alphabet games, for alphabet centers in your classroom, and for the Fishing for Letters activity in today's Resource Pack, below. Print onto card stock for best results.
2. LEARNING FOCUS
FISHING FOR LETTERS:
Here's a learning game your students are going to be lining up to play. First, however, have them help to create the game props, by painting ice cream buckets (or similar containers - yogurt, cottage cheese, etc. all work well) in appealing colors. Use your CHECKERBOARD LETTER TILES (above, today's Resource Pack) for your letters for this game; simply attach small strips of magnet tape to the back. Print them out onto card stock for best results.
LETTER CHARADES:
Verbs and nouns make great candidates for these letter charades. You may wish to make the cards with your students, or keep them instead as a surprise. Pictures of the action or word are on one side of the cards, with the corresponding beginning letters on the opposite side.
ACCORDION CATERPILLARS:
Here is a great idea for teaching your PreK students alphabet recognition. They can work in teams or individually to construct their own caterpillars, using them to spell out their names at the beginning of the school year. Try having a word of the month (or week if you have the time), so that they can look forward to constructing even more of these adorable word caterpillars.
MAMA AND ME ALPHABET GAME:
Print out the cards for this alphabet learning game, where mommy animals need to be matched up with their baby animals, all corresponding to upper and lower case letters on the cards.
LEARNING YOUR LETTERS:
How about erasing your letters - with water! Or try a Pin the Tail on the Donkey - alphabet version. Sing some Name Songs, make an alphabet album, and more - lots of creative ideas here to keep your PreK students busy learning their alphabet!
PLAYDOUGH LETTER MATS:
Download these wonderful cards to use in your early education classroom, where students will model letters with their rolled out playdough, and shape them as shown in the templates on the cards. Objects beginning with each alphabet letter are included on the cards as well.
WONDERFUL ALPHABET COLORING PAGES:
We love these letter coloring pages - so original and creative! Each letter is decorated in a unique way with a repeated object that represents the matching sound. My favorites here: Q, V, Z, M, K.... Okay, I like them all! You can post mini versions on your bulletin board, and students will anticipate (and probably ask for) the letters they can't wait to get to - a great recognition activity in itself!
AIRPLANE ALPHABET CARDS:
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Fly the friendly skies with these printable alphabet cards. Three to a page, you'll find both upper and lower case letters in the airplane's windows, which you can use in your literacy centers, to practice calling out letters, or to adorn your wall borders. (If you want them in color, just let us know - we'll get them to you!)
3. PRE-K EXPLORATIONS
CRAWFORD WASHES HIS HANDS:
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Watch the 5 minute video online, where Crawford the Cat, along to music and audio, learns to wash his hands before eating. Download a printable coloring page to reinforce the concepts at the 2nd link above.
MY CLEAN HANDS:
More Crawford the Cat fun... Students can read along, or Crawford can read for them in this audio and visual online reading presentation.
FIVE LITTLE MONSTERS WENT TO SCHOOL:
Download and print out the mini book to color, read, and share during your beginning weeks at school, and find out what happens to monsters when they go to school - and what happens to school rules!
SORTING GAMES:
Sorting games and activities will help promote solid critical thinking skills for further development in math. Try comparison and sorting words, and using buttons, coins, tangrams, keys... whatever you have handy.
4. PRE-K ART
ALPHABET ART:
Play with your alphabet! Why not? Especially when you can make alphabet pretzels, popcorn letters, yarn letters, glitter letters, pasta letters.... You get the idea; these art lessons are fun!
ART FOR EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET:
Why not paint and stuff an apple when you're studying the letter "A"? Or how about rolling paint with corn cobs for the letter "C", maybe in November for a harvest or Thanksgiving theme? Make a big "B" template, and glue on inexpensive buttons - find loads more ideas here to explore the alphabet with some creative art activities!
MORE LETTER ART:
I would want to do alphabet activities all year round if letter learning was this much fun! Your students will be top of the class for getting their letter recognition down if they try even half of these art projects with letters. I particularly like the Contact Paper letters, alphabet stamps, and glue letters! (So can I sit in on your class when you're doing these? :)
FREE TEACHING RESOURCE BOOKS!*
Take advantage of our FALL PROMO with a FREE downloadable resource book for each renewal or new membership. We're really pleased with our selection this year and we think you're going to love them - it will be hard to choose just one! Go on, take a peek!
*Free books with a purchased or renewed membership during our fall membership drive.
5. ONLINE ACTIVITIES
ALPHABET GOOP:
As students "stir" the alphabet goop, two letters rise up and attach themselves to cards, followed by pictures that the students have to match to the correct letter, clicking and dragging them into the appropriate boxes.
MIX AND MATCH:
Students will click on numbers to change the different body parts in this mix and match game, where they can make some pretty crazy characters!
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