The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

         Read the room is an excellent center activity! I use read the room almost daily in my classroom for literacy, vocabulary, letter recognition, spelling patterns and much more! I have created a bundle of read the room activities that are differentiated in order to meet the needs of all of your students no matter what level they are on. I am a firm believer in making my classroom an environment where all children are successful and feel confident in their learning. Differentiation is just one way to help those children who may be behind or even ahead to grow and flourish in the classroom. The goal is the same: learning, irregardless of where we start we want children to learn at a pace that does not frustrate and overwhelm.      My Differentiated Read the Room Files contain 3 sets of picture cards. One set has the entire word printed with the picture, the 2nd set only has the target vowel written under the picture and the 3rd set only ...

Hello All,       I know some of you are still in school....hold on you can do it!!!! We are out here in Texas and to celebrate I have started a new series of products AND THE FIRST ONE IS FREE!!!!! I am also giving away my biggest and most popular bundle. "The Ultimate literacy Bundle" is 600+ pages of teacher resources to teach literacy! My new adventure has me creating "Centers for $1.00" These centers focus on a specific concept for the Pre-k, K and 1st classroom. I have listed the first 3 of this series and I have 2 pages full of ideas for more! So grab your freebie and check my store often for many more of these centers to come! Click on this link to go directly to your freebie!!!! Don't forget to scroll down and enter the giveaway! Centers for $1.00- St, Sm, Sw I have listed 2 other centers for $1.00 and added a huge bundle of all of my "go to" resources for literacy instruction. Be sure to check each of them out when you visit my ...

Finally blogger and I are no longer at odds with each other and I can post the photos I have been wanting to show you for the last week! My kiddos and I have been working on many activities from several of my winter units on tpt. I am so proud of their hard work, after all they are only 4! Below are pictures of the work we have done with my Build a Snowman CVC Unit , Winter print and go Unit and my Winter Animals Unit . I am especially proud of how much their handwriting has improved and the ability to work independently is finally kicking in. My new Word of the Day calendar and journal is a huge hit in my classroom. The kiddos are so excited each morning to learn our word of the day and how to use it in a sentence. I hope you will take a minute to check these units out in my store, I know you will enjoy everything they have to offer. While you are there be sure to download my Shape Snowman Freebie and my H ow many snowballs tall are you? Non standard measurement Freebie! Till next ...

It is almost that time of year again when we are reminded to give thanks for all the blessings in our lives. My followers, you, are certainly friends to be thankful for. Thinking about all of my blessings this past weekend at my brothers wedding amongst some of the most gorgeous fall scenery I was inspired to create a little something special for all of you. This center includes uppercase and lowercase full color turkeys for matching and letter recognition with three differentiated recording sheets. One blank to write both letters, one for recording uppercase letters and one for recording lowercase letters. I hope you enjoy using this center and thank you for being you, teachers who inspire children to learn everyday! Turkey ABC Matching Cneter Freebie!

I don't know if you have heard but Teachers Notebook has decided to create bundles of products for a back to school promotion this week. Let me tell you the bundles are awesome, each one is around $20 and includes 15-20 different products. I have gone through all of the pre-K to 2nd bundles and there are some great resources in them. My Frog Fun Unit is featured in Bundle #9. There is so much great stuff in this bundle that I might just have to buy it even though it has my own product, that is how good the deals are! I want to buy all of the bundles but have decided to limit my budget to $60. That will get me three great bundles worth over $400.00. Hop on over as soon as you can to get your bundles.....I will be hard to choose just one! TEACHERS NOOTEBOOK HOMEPAGE And..... to add to all of the back to school fun over there at Teachers notebook I have put my entire store on sale for 20% off and am hosting a giveaway of my Volcano Adventure Word Work Center! The start of this yea...

In my quest to get organized for next year I have devised a system for differrentiation that I believe will work for me and my kiddos. (If you know me this is a huge step, I am a very disorganized ADHD person!) I am calling this series of blog posts "Organization for Differentiation." I hope you can gleam some insight and share some of your experiences along the way. Also, to kick off this series I will be giving away the biggest piece of the puzzle for me, the drawer tower! This is a $50.00 piece and I will have it sent straight from Amazon to the winner! See the pictures and make sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post. So, here is the first step for "Organtization for Differentiation" The Tools: 2 drawer towers, dollar store drawer organizers, target dollar spot book bins and center supplies. This is in the very beginning staes and I will be updating you every step of the way. So to begin I have started by deciding what type of books I want on each c...