The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

  Write the room literacy centers in kindergarten (aka. read the room) has become one of my favorite literacy for kindergarten activities! I love to see kindergarten students work through movement activities in the classroom! Write the rooms are fun, engaging and easy to differentiate reading exercises for kindergarten that all children can be successful with. I use write the room activities in every subject to encourage language development and literacy skills. I often have it planned more than once a week! Kindergarten write the room is so much more than just hanging pictures around the classroom and having the kids write down words. I think it is a great way to level the playing field by providing different ways to record the answers, kinesthetic learning opportunities and collaborative work. Kinders often do not recognize the differences when they are busy moving around the room. This way everyone gets a chance to work on their current learning level without feeling self consci...

Debbie Diller and other succesful educators have said that children can distinguish between objects when they have a frame to seperate them. This would be why word walls, number walls and many educational posters frame there content so that children can concentrate on one space and not get everything all jumbled together. This is especially important when learning how to decode words and counting. One to one correspondence practice where a child places one object in one section of an egg carton is the same idea. This year I have been working diligently with my pre-kers on using 10 frames. I am seeing this tool used more and more often to help with counting, one to one correspondence, identifying amounts and grouping. There are endless possiblilities for using these in the classroom. This week after practicing with the ten frames from my Hibernation Unit we completed the following worksheet. You can see that the child who colored in red understood the concept pretty well but the child ...

Well school has officially begun here in Texas and it is wonderful to get my family back on schedule and my new little class of cuties into routine. This year I am girl heavy with 9 girls and 5 boys. They are a wonderful group of 4 year olds and I can't wait to get to know them better. I have one student yet to meet who should arrive in the morning but otherwise my group is energetic, full of life and typical four year olds with a love of learning and for the Lord. The families I am working with have done an excellent job with these little guys. So far we have practiced our procedures, learned how to properly play in centers, used our crayons, markers and pencils with success and had fun getting to know each other. Tommorrow each of my kiddos will get their chance to add their name to my new word wall that is why I am revealing it to you today! Since my classroom is also a Sunday school room I have some restrictions on what I am allowed to do, this being said I have gotten somewhat...

Teachers Notebook has sponsored a bundle of items worth over $1,400.00 to help the community of Moore, OK after the devestating tornadoes that ruined their town just days ago. Among the wreckage were 2 elementary schools where courageous teachers risked their lives to save the children. 100% of the proceeds from this packet are going to the Moore Community. I have donated my Read the Room Mega Bundle. Click the picture to make a donation starting at $20.00 to get this bundle and help the people of Moore OK.

Hello All, I am so excited to share three of my most popular items with you at a 40% discount on Teachers Notebook tomorrow, Saturday 4/20. Read the room mega pack:27 sets with recording sheets Where do animals live? 11 habitat units Butterfly life cycle with anchor chart, craftivity, teacher book, minibook and more You can find each of these items in the daily deals box on the homepage of Teachers Notebook or visit my shop www.teachersnotebook.com/shop/cropingchristine Enjoy your weekend! Christine

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