To see the rest of the Color & Change posts, please go here. Our art studio teacher worked with the children to create a canvas for the music center in our infant program. This project started our color and change exploration in the art studio to teach color mixing. Our project was inspired by this…
We always promote independence with our children. It gives them a lot of confidence and greatly helps with classroom management. During center time the children are able to eat morning snack independently. We have independent snack to reduce transitions, to allow the children to decide if they are hungry or not, and so they can…
This is my first time participating in Scholastic Reading Club and I love it! It is so easy to do and we earned a lot of free materials for our classroom. Once you sign up as a teacher you email your families letting them know their child’s class is apart of the reading club. Then…
Our second project of the school year is all about color and changes in the seasons and nature. We explore colors/color mixing, the fall season, farms, pumpkins, leaves, weather, and much more. Right before this project we went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. We used our experience there to plan our center activities. Our…
Our second project of the school year is all about color and changes in the seasons and nature. We explore colors/color mixing, the fall season, farms, pumpkins, leaves, weather, and much more. Right before this project we went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. We used our experience there to plan our center activities. In…
Our second project of the school year is all about color and changes in the seasons and nature. We explore colors/color mixing, the fall season, farms, pumpkins, leaves, weather, and much more. Right before this project we went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. We used our experience there to plan our center activities. In…
Our second project of the school year is all about color and changes in the seasons and nature. We explore colors/color mixing, the fall season, farms, pumpkins, leaves, weather, and much more. Right before this project we went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. We used our experience there to plan our center activities. In…
Each week we have a cooking project with our students that goes along with our letter of the week. For the week of “Aa” we had apple taste testing as our cooking project. Our apples were Honey Crisp, Golden Delicious, and Granny Smith. After all of the children tasted their apples, we met at the…
Every year we have a back to school night for the parents of our two year old children and the preschool children. Parents are given details on our daily schedule, how our program works, our curriculum, portfolios, and other important information. This is also an opportunity for them to ask questions and speak with teachers…
Our first project of the school year was learning about our friends and family. In the language center the teacher provided photographs of the children playing together. The teacher dictated their story about the photograph. They compiled a book all about their friends. When the friends book was completed, they created a family book using…
Our first project of the school year was learning about our friends and family. In the art studio the children learned how to draw a self portrait. They were introduced to self portraits by creating a shadow box. The art studio teacher gave each child their photograph and a transparency. Using a black sharpie, the…
Our first project of the school year was learning about our friends and family. In the social center we created a post office so they could mail their friends & family letters and packages. The top of our loft became a building area for the post office. I put a variety of boxes, blocks, wooden…
Our first project of the school year was learning about our friends and family. In the math & science center the children explored this project in many creative ways. There was a “daddy’s workshop” where they learned how to hammer golf tees into boxes: The sensory table turned into a baby bathing station. The children carefully…
At the end of August our school is closed for two days for teacher in-service. Part of in-service is setting up our classrooms for the new school year. This is how it looked as we began packing, unpacking, cleaning, moving, and organizing all the materials and furniture! By the end of Friday our classrooms looked…
It’s been a long time since I have updated this blog! When I started this blog I was an art teacher at my preschool. This past summer I became a director. For a few months I was a director and an art teacher. Then we hired my new art teacher and now I am teaching…
Preschool at Meadow Creek 