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I'm Jackie your go-to girl for early childhood ideas and inspiration. My passion is to inspire you with play based activities, themed centers, and supports that nurture and challenge little learners. And to help you find ways to embed character (aka social skills) throughout your day. I want to do the work for you so you can stop missing your life. My goal is for your to spend less time brainstorming, less time creating. And more time teaching, more time creating a difference in the lives of your students, and more time for your family.
I love you and your wonderful videos. I started teaching preschool last year after teaching other grades for 10plus years in my own classroom as well as doing a lot of substitute teaching. Never preschool.
This is a lot like Heggerty! Thank you for creating this! I am a family child care provider and couldn’t afford to purchase the Heggerty curriculum. This is a wonderful resource in place of that!
Can you explain the social emotional shoe game again? I am not sure I understand. One shoe is under a blanket. They pick out that shoe then ask if it is certain child’s shoe. But can they just see the kids shoe?
Oh my goodness.... how cool would the MOM and DAD ones be if you planned ahead and did the first picture the first week of school, the middle letter around Christmas time and the last letter the week before the event so that they have pictures of how their child has grown through the pre-k year!
I've been a 1st grade teacher for the past 14 years and now I am moving to preschool in the fall. I've been watching your videos to get some ideas of how to set up my classroom. I have a question about the students' names. You have the name cards with the pictures for the students to use to help spell their names. On one side you have it in all capitals and on the other side you have it with capital and lowercase letters. Why both? I understand that kids typically learn the capital letters first. However, why not have them correctly write their name from the start? Their picture is on the card, so even if they don't recognize the letters, they would see the picture and know that it is their name. I notice that at the beginning of first grade every year, I have about 5 or so students that still randomly put capitals in their names and I spend the first month or two of school having them correct it until they get it right. Is it not developmentally appropriate for preschool to have them write it correctly with capitals and lowercase?
We do a theme of the week during the regular school year to correspond with the letter of the week. But Summer is one theme, and we use it for 8 weeks.
I absolutely love your videos, your ideas and even more, that you share all this for free. I wish that companies that brag about having an excellent program, actually would let the teachers freely be creative and do the things and activities like the ones you share. It makes me so sad, coming back after a long time to this field, that i cant be free to be creative to teach the kiddos. ...
Styrofoam that you’ve pulled out of a box that appliances come in works great for golf tee activity. If it’s a big piece, it’s good for cooperative group activity instead it being only 1-1 .
For college, I had to create a zoo animal lesson plan for kindergarteners, and I was really struggling. Thank you for sharing your ideas and helping me figure out the best route to take!
