Spring has Sprung!

 Well not so much here... we just has sn*w the other day lol

I rely heavily on my public library.

I reserve books about every other week.

This was waiting for me on the last day of my spring break!

We added this to our calendar time.

This is a tri-fold board. I have literally no wall space to use.

The letter of the day sign, the letter find underneath, the Hh and road h,

Each day we get a letter in our mailbox.

The kids get to open the letters.

Detailed post coming ASAP!!

I used smelly markers to make our rainbow.

Children will sort letters and foam shapes according to color.

Build the number*

Number count*

lay out the cards and add that many chain links at the bottom

The children will find and trace the letter in that color.

There is a missing sheet.*

Playdough cards

Color puzzles

I made a color copy of the puzzle below- it is a little tricky!

*Grab printables here $$

Kicking off Sports Unit

Some of my books arrived- 

I reserve up to 50 books from my

local library for each theme.

Apparently I made too many centers again lol

I put the extra bins on the floor so

the children can see into them :)

I only teach in the morning. 

My room is used the rest of the day, 

so I can't leave them around the classroom.

I think these are all from Pocket of Preschool. 

Basketball Numbers

Match the basketball numerals, to the ten frames, to the fingers

Baseball: letter mitts, letter bats and baseball sound pictures.

Football counting

pick a card in the goal post

write it on the score board

put football erasers on the football

Find it on the bottom

Patterning with mini erasers.

Hockey Pucks

in their name or not

holes/ no holes

capital/lowercase

Race to 10

Golf tracing lines

yes those are make-up sponges!

pom pom letters

I added Wiki Sticks

Tennis Ball measuring

Name pennants

Bowling Subtraction

(I didn't have the pins folded yet)

Pick a number bowling pin and knock down that many pins.

I may make X's so they know 

how many to put down.

This Shape Catch game

I have three different colored game pieces.

Kids pick a card and put it on that shape.

Pick a soccer ball letter

write that letter

make that letter with pom-poms.

I have fun special papers too in the writing center.

I will snap a photo of our writing center when it's all sent up.

To start each unit, I always use a letter.

It tells what the unit is about.

I hold up word cards that go with the unit.

Those word cards go into the writing center.

The letter goes in the binder of letters,

so the kids can read after snack :)

Read more about those letters here.

Beginning a new unit

Beginning each of my units, we begin with a letter addressed to the class. The kids get to open the sealed envelope. Then I put them in a binder and the kids can read them anytime. I have one letter for each unit I teach.

The letters introduce the new theme and key vocabulary words. As I read the letter, I hold up the word cards.  Those word cards go into my writing area.

Shortly after that, we look at the new books for the theme. These are only some of the books we have in our classroom.  I have another

When I taught higher grades, where they could read, I would have them share a page of their favorite new book with the class. Now my students are 4 and 5 year olds, so we find our favorite page and they show the picture on that page to the class. My goal is to see that they see different books that they might not pick up and look at.


By having them share their favorite books, I am trying to have them start the conversation about books. Yes, they love to read the books that I read too, but a recommendation from a friend, is so amazing!



So far I have letters for:

• All About Me

• School/alpha

• Fall

• Monsters

• Transportation

• Thanksgiving

• Nutrition- covers each food groups

• gingerbread

• Christmas non-religious

• snow/polar/winter

• space

• weather/GH

• friendship/love

• teeth

• Seuss

• Leprechaun

• Vet/pet- intros different pets

• Rain Forest  layers and animals

• Community Helpers- intros different ones

• Spring

• Insects- intros different insects

• Zoo- intros different animals

• Ocean- intros different animals

• Dinos- intros different 

• Apples