Extend the love for reading all throughout the preschool classroom with these amazing literacy based ideas from Teach Preschool!

I always say, one can never have too many children’s books. With every children’s book there is always a way to expand the book into all parts of the early childhood classroom experience. Explore Teach Preschool and find out ways you can promote literacy and language throughout the early learning environment!

Little peas all around the classroom | Virtual Book Club for Kids

Exploring peas all around the classroom and the wonderful book “Little Pea” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal!

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Exploring the life cycle of a pumpkin

Exploring the life cycle of a pumpkin and planting our own pumpkin seeds in the window!

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Pumpkin head discovery bottles

Making and exploring pumpkins with our very own DIY pumpkin heads!

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Graphing leaves in preschool

Exploring the basics of graphing in preschool with the leaves of fall!

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Touch and Feel Scarecrows

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We played a simple game to take a look at the textures of our scarecrows a little more closely in preschool!

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All you need is a box

We spent quite a bit of time exploring different ways you can use a box in our classroom.  Of course, if you haven’t read the book “Not a Box” by Antoinette Portis then you might not understand that any box you may have around is really not a box… “Not a Box” by Antoinette Portis [...]

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A story in a box

Telling the story and then inviting my entire class to join me to retell this wonderful story in a box together!

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Beautiful acorn paintings in preschool

The surprise of beautiful paintings were part of the fun in this acorn painting process!

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Nuts about acorns in preschool | Lois Ehlert

Counting, estimating, and exploring acorns along with the wonderful children’s book “Nuts to You” by Lois Ehlert!

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Shapes on the flannel board graph | Virtual Book Club | Lois Ehlert

Exploring shapes and colors with the book “Color Zoo” by Lois Ehlert and a flannel board graphing experience in preschool!

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Ants in the salt tray plus more

Exploring ants in circletime then working on prewriting skills as we explore ants in the salt tray!

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Sticky table friendship apples

Exploring friendship with the help of little mouse and his apple!

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The perfect square in preschool

Exploring the perfect square and the process of tearing, gluing, creating, and writing our names in preschool.

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I can day in preschool : circletime

Exploring “I Can Day” during our first week of preschool gave us the opportunity to discover many of the things we can do in preschool!

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Reading Chrysanthemum and exploring our own perfect names

Explore the wonderful book “Chrysanthemum” by Kevin Henkes then find out that you have the perfect name too through these fun and simple activities!

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The color of birds and painting with color cubes

The Painting Cube is a great way to turn the painting process into a game as well as draw attention to each color used in the painting process.

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