Fun and Easy Ways to Teach Important Skills During the Clothes Study for Preschool
As a new preschool teacher, I wanted to find fun and easy ways to teach important math, literacy and fine motor skills as we were going through the Clothes Study for Preschool. I found that my students needed help specifically with sorting, vocabulary, pre-writing and fine motor skills and pattern awareness.
What Are The Benefits of Word Sorts ?
When I taught second grade, word sorts were my favorite way of giving my students a hands on, multi-sensory way to practice letter recognition, spelling patterns and word families. Now, I am teaching Kindergarten and I am using them again. In moving schools, I lost my “big book of word sorts” , so now I […]
Kindergarten Is A Zoo !
I have had so much fun decorating my classroom as a zoo and changing our dramatic play area each week that we study a new habitat. My students loved fishing, bird watching, and milking a cow on the farm. Here are some pictures so you can “see” what we have been up to !!