circletime

The listening game and celebrating National Book Week 2012

Enjoying the wonderful book “The Listening Walk” by Paul Showers and playing a super silly listening game!

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Building block literacy and story telling

Building our own stories through block play in circletime…

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Exploring more or less in a bird nest

Exploring more or less in a bird nest!

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Exploring seeds in the gardening center

Exploring seeds in circle time and in our cardboard box gardening center…

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Exploring Dr. Seuss stripes in preschool…

Counting and creating with our Dr. Seuss stripes in our prek classroom!

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Exploring penguins in preschool

Using our new issue of Scholastic Classroom Magazine to help us explore all about penguins!

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Candy cane math in pre-k

We had fun doing a little candy cane math and designing in pre-k!

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Ring those bells in preschool

Listening with our ears and singing together as we explored bells today in preschool!

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Charting out our Thanksgiving meal in preschool

Charting out our Thanksgiving meal and place settings in circle time!

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Very busy making spider webs in preschool

We were busy little spiders today as we spent our day exploring spiders and weaving our very own spider webs in preschool!

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Exploring capital and lowercase letters with my preschoolers

Exploring upper and lower case letters with my preschoolers…

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In the News: Telling a story right out of the bag in preschool

Using a story telling bag is a terrific way to promote language and literacy skills in preschool!

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Exploring story stones in preschool

Our class LOVES story stones!

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Preschool circle time idea | Grab a spot

  I am so blessed each day by the folks over at  Teach Preschool on Facebook! They are always giving me great ideas and when I hear of something really cool, I like to try it out. A few months ago, we were sharing ideas for sitting in circletime and among the many wonderful ideas, [...]

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Literacy Beginnings: Chapter two: Building a Community of Learners

I am thrilled to be participating in the Book Study Blog Party being hosted by Pre-K Pages. Each participating blogger is taking a turn to read a chapter of the book “Literacy Beginnings” by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas.  You can check out the linky at the bottom of this post to see [...]

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Starting with the activity and ending with the book in preschool

I have almost always started our day with circle time in preschool. I choose a great children’s book along with other conversation sparkers that ultimately branch out into a variety of other content areas like art, math, and so forth… But lately, my three year old nephew, Wy, has been teaching me to rethink my [...]

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