more turkey hiding with a disguise

More turkeys in disguise but this time with the children writing about it.

Difference between praise and encouragment

Students need to be encouraged more than praised.  We need to be aware of what we tell the kids of and make sure to encourage and not so much praise and it is for a reason.

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Making edible shapes

Students really enjoyed making different shapes from pretzels and marshmallows.

They got very creative and made many different shapes.  It was a great experience for them and they enjoyed it very much.

Graffiti writing

Student get into a group of four. They then choose a side and write about what is in the middle. In this sample, it is math and they need to draw or write something to do with that number.

Top, middle, bottom

This activity as done for positional words, top, middle and bottom.  The students got into partners and then made eyes, nose and mouth.  When they were done they put it together and it was a funny face.

Dr Suess Thing 1 and 2

 I saw this activity at Lakeshore today.  They just got blue construction paper to be the hair and a sentence strip to adjust it to the child's head.  The children then decorated it how they wanted to with marker, foam stickers, and other things.

Journals in Prek

This is a great idea for all you teachers that purchase your own items for the classroom.  This teacher cut the notebooks that she uses for journal in half, this is such a money saving space saving idea.  Awesome!

Texas Flag

What a cool way to incorporate Texas history.  The children cut little blue and red paper and pasted it on a flag form.  They are learning Texas information and they are also using their fine motor skills.

qtip skeleton

This is an idea I saw in a teacher's classroom.  The students got qtips and made their own skeleton when studying bones.  This was their creation and it worked out really well.  Great Idea!!!

Portfolios

This is an awesome way to keep the students work and also display it at the same time.  I saw this idea in lots of head start classroom and also in a district prek class.  They staple a tag board sheet on the bulletin board with a flexible 2 hole  fastener prongs.  Then you can just keep adding work securely.  It is such great idea!!

Counting words in a sentence

 I saw this great activity at a PreK classroom.  The teacher was telling the students sentences and they had to move the counters up for each word.  The children were engaged and used manipulatives to learn the phonological awareness activity of sentence segmenting

Shape of things

I saw this great activity in  a Prek classroom.  Students listened to the book called The Shape of Things and then they made their own pictures with shapes.  Awesome!!

fighting germs

A great bulletin board that shows the students a great way for fighting germs

Reindeer Ornaments

With a light bulb and some acrylic paint, you can do this cute reindeer too. So easy and super cute.

awesome ornaments

I saw this activity in a classroom and thought I would share.  You get an ornament and put the child's hand print with white acrylic paint.  Then with acrylic pens make the fingers into snowmen.  It is super cute

wreath tree

I say this in one of the teacher's class and I had to share.  It is a take home project where the parent and child work together to make a wreath with any materials they want.  Then the teacher formed them into a tree shape on the wall I really loved that idea.

the 5 senses

I really loved this idea so I had to share.  The 5 senses are depicted on this craft the children made.  The hands are cut out of sand paper so they can feel.  The ears are made of little bells, the mouth is licorice and the nose and eyes are depicted also.

you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man

Have fun this winter with the gingerbread man story.  Have some cut outs for the little ones, you can have the older ones cut their own out and decorate it with lots of fun things.  I found this in one classroom and since I love the classic story, I had to take a picture.

You could use this or any other story and find a song to make it fun.

lions, lions, lions,

This lion is made out of paper plate, yarn and construction paper.  The children in this teacher's class had so much fun adding the yarn, googly eyes and the mouth part.  They also loved the story that the teacher read. Of course you could use it with any lion story cause it is so much fun to make.

Stickers and Math

 This is a need idea since students loooove stickers.  You can use their love of stickers with  math activities.  I took these pictures in one of the schools and had to take pictures cause I thought it was really neat