The start of preschool is just about here! Whether you send your child to preschool or teach preschool at home, it is a special day. To help make our day extra special, I came up with 4 fun ways to celebrate the first day. 1. Make ABC pancakes This is so fun! Surprise your preschooler in the morning with pancakes in the shape of alphabet letters! To make ours, I used pancake mix and used a tablespoon to write the letters on the griddle. It did not take long to cook, so make sure you flip … [Read more...]
Preschool Graduation Songs
Are you looking for preschool graduation songs? You're in the right place! It's the end of the school year, which means preschool graduation is upon us. If you are a teacher or homeschool parent looking for some sweet songs to sing with your students, then I have something that you will love. I came up with five songs that are sung to familiar tunes and I created a free printable for you. You can print the songs out and sing them together with your class! Children love music, so singing … [Read more...]
The Preschool Journey – Updated Version & Sale!
I'm so excited to share that my preschool curriculum just received a major facelift and it's ready to share with you! I wrote The Preschool Journey 3 years ago and since then, I've been having people beg me to make this into a hard copy version. I'm thrilled to announce that it's finally available in a print version! It makes my heart so happy to know that hundreds of you bought The Preschool Journey in the ebook format and that it has helped prepare your child for kindergarten. It is … [Read more...]
Preschool Math 101
Math is so fun to teach to preschoolers! It's also an easy subject to teach because there are a lot of daily activities to incorporate math. Preschoolers don't need worksheets for math. Instead, they should learn through play and hands-on activities. Today I'm going to share about the basics of teaching preschool math. This post contains affiliate links. See my disclosure for details. Here are the math concepts and skills that should be covered in preschool: Sorts by color, shape, … [Read more...]
Differentiating Home Preschool
If you teach preschool at home, you may wonder how to make home preschool different over years. Some of us start doing preschool activities at home around age 2 and continue until a child is 5 (or even 6!). Today, I'm sharing how to differentiate the years of preschool. With my background in education, this is what I feel kids need to know before heading into Kindergarten. Preschool is a really fun time in a child's life. My biggest advice is to make learning FUN during this time! Find … [Read more...]
Ten Apples Up On Top Counting Activity
Last week, Wes and I started doing preschool at home. The letter we started learning about is 'A' and we are doing lots of activities with apples. One of my favorite apple books is Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss. I was inspired to do this activity after reading this idea from Buggy and Buddy. We put our own twist on the activity and it was a lot of fun! In this book, there is a lot of counting. The characters in the story are adding apples to the top of their head throughout the story. … [Read more...]
ABC Knock Down {Guest Post}
Happy Friday!! I'm so excited to have Jodie from Growing Book by Book here today! She has an awesome blog all about literacy activities for kids! She is so creative and shares lots of reading activities to do with kids. Thanks Jodie for being here today! My name is Jodie from Growing Book by Book and I'm excited to be guest posting today on Teaching Mama. My 2 and 3 year-old love all things to do with cars and trucks. I'm always on the look out for ways to incorporate literacy … [Read more...]
Our Preschool Plans for 2014
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Happy Wednesday! Hope you are having a good week. We're still adjusting to life with a newborn and two active boys. It's going well and I'm trying to soak up all these sweet moments with baby (and at the same time being sleep deprived!) I can't believe it's already August 13th...and schools around here start this week! Since school is on the minds of parents, today I am sharing our plans for preschool this year. (This post contains … [Read more...]
J is for Jungle — Letter J Printables
Todays free printable packet is on the letter J! Letter J was a little tricky to come up with, but I decided to go with jungle animals. In this printable packet, there’s practice on the following skills: identifying letter j tracing patterns shapes Here are a few sample pages: To download your printable packet click here —> J is for Jungle And to download more printable alphabet packets, please visit this page. If you want more hands-on activities for … [Read more...]
U is for Umbrellas — Letter U Printables
Today's printable packet is all about the letter U. There are several umbrella activities for the letter U in my ebook, so I decided to make this packet on U is for Umbrellas. In this printable packet, there’s practice on the following skills: identifying letter u tracing patterns cutting colors finding differences sorting by size coloring Here are a few sample pages: To download your printable packet click here —> U is for Umbrellas And to … [Read more...]