The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

Hello All, I just wanted to share with you some great activities our department did this past week for Nocturnal animals and hibernation. We had so much fun exploring how animals live at night. We spent an entire day with no lights on, the kids brought small flashlights and one Mom donated finger flashlights (which are totally awesome, this was the first time I had ever seen them!). My class spent time discovering new animals that are nocturnal that we didn't already know about, like scorpions! My favorite part of the week though was our letter and number hunts. I hung the #'s 1-20 in my classroom and gave each child a clipboard with a recording sheet on it. They were instructed to roam the room with their flashlights and find each number. Once they found a number they were to color in the box that had the same number. We did the same with letters in my collegues room. The class had so much fun with this! I was surprised at how it kept their attention. They found all 26 letter...

I just created this great little Thanksgiving book while sitting home sick with pnemonia (sp?) Feeling a bit better today so making use of my rest time. This book is free on TpT,the link is to the right of this column. During my Thanksgiving unit I like to let the children act out the harvest feast. We make Pilgrim hats and Indian vests. Our school allows us to take a parade around the school showing off our period wear.  We of course sing 1 little, 2 little, 3 little Indians. We create a cornucopia, each student brings in a piece of friut or vegetable to fill then we take a picture of it with the kids for the parents. There are so many things you can do to make Thanksgiving fun for the students, I also like to show a picture of traditional Thanksgiving food and give each child a paper plate, It is amazing what they draw with just some crayons. You can cover your tables in brown butcher paper and let the children set the table with their drawn plate, have them outline plasticw...