The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

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...

Hello Everyone,      It is giveaway time again, this month's prize goes to Christi Squires. She has won my Bug-Jar-Math Unit from TpT. She will enjoy 39 pages of bug themed counting activities including 1-10 bug jars for counting and one to one coorespondence, worksheets, sorting mats and more. Thank you all for being followers! Next months giveaway is: Frog-Fun-Math-Centers  (I changed it to a larger and more recent unit!) Frog fun math centers contains nine printable centers and practice worksheets for your pre-k to 1st grade students. Included centers teach and review: time, number words to 50, patterns, addition, subtraction, greater than, less than and equal to,non-satndard measurement and more. You can view some of my students work from this unit here on my blog under the posts: Tips for teaching number word recognition Clothespin color matching, counting and addition center Why teach non-standard measurement? Teaching time and clock concepts in Pr...

I have found that teaching time in Pre-k can be a challenge but with the right appraoch children can learn to tell time. Standing in the way are the enourmous number of digital clocks that children see. So here is where I start: 1. The Clocks: I print each child a full sheet sized clock on cardstock and laminated. I code the hands by color with the hour hand being red and the minute hand being blue. I attach these with brads, hour hand on top. I make sure my clock hands are easily distinguished from each other in size so that children can manipulate them easily. 2. Initial Introduction: I start with time to the hour, i use a play clock to show them and also tell them the real time on our classroom clock. When I catch the clock close to a certain hour I try to get the children to look at the classroom clock and tell me what time it is. Generally they pick up time to the hour easily, it becomes more challenging as you break the hour up into minutes. 3. Experimenting C...

Studying the Pond Habitat and all about Frogs is one of my favorite units of the year. We are lucky enough to have a pond close enough to walk to and take our students on the Friday our unit is over. I cannot wait to go! In the meantime here are a few ideas you can plan in your classroom to help children understand ponds, frogs, ducks, fish and all of the wildlife that relies on the pond as their habitat. 1. Create a pond center (with water or waterless whatever your school allows) You can do this 2 ways, either in a small bucket on a table or in a small kiddy pool. If you choose to include water you will need to make sure you find items for the pond that are made of materials that can get wet without getting ruined (ex. rubber duckies instead of stuffed ducks). Start by lining your chosen bucket with sand, add water if you so choose, make sure the sand is deep enough to hold up the flowers and pond plants you want the children to decorate the pond with. Gather the following supplies...

Here is a free set of Read the Room cards which teach the color words. This free file also includes a recording sheet. These are from my new Pond & Frog Math Centers Unit on TpT and Teachers Notebook. Click the link below to download this freebie from TpT or the link to the right to go to my TpT store. I would love to know what you think of this, please leave feeback and comments. Enjoy, Christine Pond-Frog-Color-Word-Read-the-Room-Freebie

Hello All, I have just posted my latest unit to TpT titled Pond & Frog Math Centers! In this unit there are 9 centers, ready to print and use. Addition, Subtraction, Time to the hour, Greater than, Less than and Equal to, Number Word matching to 50 and much more! This unit is $7.00, there are so many uses for the pages in this unit. The possibilities are endless!  Click this link to see the full description, preview file and to purchase. Frog-Fun-Math This is for my Pond Theme Unit next week. I will also be creating a bulletin board pond to help learn about all of the different animals that live in the pond. I will also be making vocabulary cards for these animals as a read the room center. I plan on using some of the worksheets from this unit to assess the children's understanding of addition and subtraction, time and color words. I will use the large clocks for group instruction and the pattern mats for small group math time. Enjoy! Christine