The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

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 have finally finished putting together my Jungle Theme Behavior Chart. I am so excited to use this in my classroom this year. Since I cannot get into my classroom for another 2 weeks I decided to hang it from my curtain rod for the pictures. The system works like this: Each child starts everyday on Happy Hippopotamus, this is acceptable behavior for the classroom. The child can then move up or down from there depending on their behavior choices. I have included the list of acceptable/unacceptable behaviors that I intend to give to my families as well as a full explaination of how I intend to use this chart. I give several ways to assemble this chart in the packet using magnets, ribbon and/or laminating. I chose to use page protectors and binder clips for my classroom. I chose the page protectors so that I could store the small reinforcer graphics for rewards inside the chart. I punched both sides of each card inside the page protector with ...

Hello Everyone, I hope you are enjoying your Sunday! This week I am off visiting my Grandmother in Atlanta, Ga! Since I wont' be home making new TpT Units to share with you I thought I would do a Sunday giveaway! The first three people who respond and leave their email address will receive my PDF for free in their inbox. I would appreciate your comments and feedback once you get a chance to take a look at the product. This math unit includes everything you need for centers, calendars, graphs and visuals during a sports themed week! Enjoy! Have a great week! Christine

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

I have this awkward bump out in the back of my classroom that I never know what to do with. Untill recently i was not allowed to leave anything up over the weekend so this spot was always blank. So I decided to create a board that could be built upon week after week with the sight words we are learning. So far these are the ones everyone knows and hopefully next week I will add a fet more. I will also add a Popcorn sight word title to the suedo board in the morning after I cut some letters with my cricut tonight. You can find these sight words and much more in my popcorn Word Work Unit onTpT Popcorn Word Work on TpT