The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

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So I need to address a hot topic at the Pre-k level. We all know what bullying looks like in Upper Elementary, Middle and High School but did you ever stop to consider it can begin much sooner? I am fully convinced that the roots and beginnings of bullying starts much sooner than Elementary School. Up until 4 years old children are mimicing appropriate and inappropriate behaviors borrowed from those they see the most; parents, grandparents, other family and family freinds. The child sees a behavior and believes it is appropriate and copies it to gain approval. Kinda like the first time you hear your three year old repeat the curse word you just said because you cut your finger cooking dinner right? Now add the fierce need for independence that comes with becoming a Pre-K aged child. Not only is the child going to be copying behaviors at home but now adding their own personality into their behavior. Anything can contribute to the bullying mentality in a young child, we already mentioned...

Hello All, After such a great giveaway I wanted to express my appreciation for yuo a bit more. I have placed my entire TpT store on sale from now till Sunday. This includes my newest worksheet set, my best selling Where do animals live? Unit and customer favorite Read the Room Mega Pack. Get it while it's hot on sale!

Doreen van cott Bednarski! Congratulations Doreen you have a huge amount of free learning resources coming your way!I want to say a great big thank you to all of those who donated to this giveaway and all of those who took the time to enter. If you didn't win this time don't fret I will host another soon! Christine

Hello Everyone, I am celebrating my biggest milestone on TpT, breaking $5000.00!!!! To celebrate I am giving away a $25.00 gift certificate to my TpT store and a huge bundle of products from some very generous teachers who have donated some of their best products. These teachers are so talented that I hope you take a few minutes to visit each one of them after you have entered the giveaway. Entries will be accepted from now until Wednesday, March 26th at midnight. I will announce the winner on Wednesday afternoon. Also, the bundle of products will keep growing throughout the weekend as more fantastic teachers donate their wonderful products. If you wish to donate a product link it below. 32. Telling time to rhyme:hickory dickory dock a Rafflecopter giveaway Best of luck! Christine

Christina over at Bunting Books and Bainbridge had a great idea to highlight blogs that we love in order to support other teachers and introduce newcomers to some of the best teacher blogs on the internet. I am highlighting Kindergarten Smiles by Caitlin Clabby. Caitlin is not only my cousin but a wonderful teacher whose blog is dedicated to excellence in kindergarten. Caitlin has inspired me to become a TpT seller and blogger myself and her blog posts are amazing. Thank you Caitlin for being such an inspiration to me. Click her button above to stop by and see her sometime soon!

Hello Everyone, This past week a colleques and I attended a wonderful seminar given by Summit Professional Education and taught by Lori Benson Adams, M ED. I have to say this was the single most informative and educational seminar I have ever been too. I typed 7 single spaced pages of notes in the first 2 hours!!!! Besides Mrs. Adams being amazing, the information we gleamed from her expertise will now impact various parts of my classroom and teaching. If you ever have a chance to attend one of her seminars I would highly recommend it! This blog post by no means has all of the information we learned but I feel these 5 tips could make serious beneficial changes for our Right Brained Visual Spacial learners. (1) Always use a picture schedule, all the way through elementary school, even into middle school if necessary for the child. (2) Add pictures with color to every lesson, as school progresses it becomes much more auditory in nature and needs to have a balance for our right brained th...

Thank you to everyone who participated in my Linky Giveaway! Here are the winners: (1)Habitat Unit: Simon Perkin of Oddball Science (2)Shamrock Shenannigans: Heather Nance of Heathers Heart (3)Insect Invasion: Erin Blecki of Creating and teaching Congratulations!!!!

O.K. so we all remember those famous dioramas that we made in elementary school were meant to teach us about animals and where they live. While these are cute projects with a purpose they are best suited for elementary students not pre-k. But with curious minds and a natural love for animals it only makes sense to introduce our kiddos to facts about animals and where they live around the world. For pre-k there are so many great easy ways to incorporate animals into our classrooms. I like to make animal masks for each habitat we are working on as well as read the room cards and recording sheets. The kiddos can record the name of the animal by reading it on the other childs mask. My class also enjoys making animals out of construction paper and gluing some facts that I have typed and printed about the animals. I like to try to decorate my room to mimic the habitat we are working on, I have to say I am a huge stuffed animal collector so I have many of the animals needed in beany baby size...

Hello All, I am so excited to offer you my newest read the room unit for 20% off through Sunday night (3/3). My first unit is a set of 26 different read the room sets with recording sheets, enough read the room for the entire school year and more read the room sets will be added for no extra charge as I grow my stash of read the room. My regular price for this set is $12.00 so get it while you can for $10.00: Read the Room Mega Pack My 2nd set is 50% off!!!! Read the Room A-Z, this offers a picture for each letter of the alphabet and can be differentiated by choosing either the letter recording sheets or the picture recording sheets. You can get this set for $2.50 right now, Monday it will be placed back to $5.00: Read the Room A_Z Please make sure to check out my past posts on read the room with suggestions and other ways to use these cards! Please follow me here on my blog, I have lots more to share! Till next time, Christine

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