The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

Congratulations Ashley Clark for winning the Organization for Differentiation giveaway. I hope you enjoy the drawer tower! Keep following this blog series for more great giveaways and classroom tips!Watch for the next blog post on Sunday!!!!

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...

O.K. everyone I hope I am not the only one out there whose children fight constantly over summer break! My 10 year old and my 5 year old are like oil and vinegar this year. I may have to draw a line down the center of my house that neither of them can cross! But enough complaining, what do you do to keep your kiddos busy during the summer when spendin money is a no, no? So far we have been swimming, playing outside, legos, reading time, library, neighborhood park, arts & crafts and random other activities that are already getting old. Our favorite playdate people are vacationing etc. I would love to hear some ideas from my followers! I hope you are enjoying your summer break!

It used to be that schools catered to the way typical girls learned, sitting quietly, listening and "still" learning. Well, we know these days that this type of learning sets boys up for failure. While some girls can still handle the old school way of learning I am seeing more and more girls that are unable to learn this way, now setting them up to fail as well. So what do we do? We as teachers have all had training on the three musts of learning: auditory, visual and kinesthetic. We are supposed to put each of these into every lesson, but how easy is it to make sure every lesson has all three? And how often are our kinesthetic aspects just moving around manipulatives on the table? We need to realize that children, even up into the higher elementary and middle school ages need to move to learn. We are so used to sitting children at desks for long periods of time and then wonder why we have such behavior problems? This year my 4th grader was part of a rotation system like thos...