March 2010

Creating a stick puppet stage for your preschool classroom

March 5, 2010

A week or so ago, I blogged about the use of puppets in the preschool classroom. At that time, I showed you a very plain puppet stage – all white with no bells and whistles. Now I want to illustrate the potential use of a display board once you get it all fixed up! I [...]

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More inspiration in early childhood education

March 4, 2010

I am always inspired by what others do and share with me. A few weeks ago, I posted this little quilted mailbox system that I use in the classroom which led to Danny Chiu, a kindergarten teacher from Jarkarta, Indonesia,  to create one for his students at Regency Kindergarten. This is my mailbox… Below is the [...]

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Inspiration in early childhood education

March 2, 2010

CERIA Preschool at Palembang south Sumatra Indonesia Rhama’s class is from Palembang south Sumatra Indonesia. Rhama often checks into the Teach Preschool site on Facebook and finds activities to do with her students. Most of these activities are not my ideas, rather ideas from my fellow bloggers. On occasion Rhama will share photos of her [...]

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Name graphs for young children

March 1, 2010

Help preschoolers learn to recognize their names with these graphing activities. The activity you choose to use will depend on the age and readiness of your students. When participating in any type of graphing activity, always make sure your students are involved in the process and once the graph is completed, ask the children questions [...]

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