Writing

The tools we write with in preschool

September 8, 2011

Use a variety of tools to help children build their writing skills!

Mini-plexiglass easels for the preschool classroom

August 18, 2011

Mini-Plexiglass Easels are a terrific tool for inviting young children to color and write!

Writing the letter of the week

February 11, 2011

Each week, when a new letter is introduced, the teacher invites each child to come up and try to print the letter on the dry erase board. The teacher begins by printing a capital and lower case letter on the board first – she identifies each letter as she is writing them for the children [...]

Messing around with the color brown in preschool

January 15, 2011

As part of our color review week, the children tried out a little brown finger painting but instead of using brown paint, they used chocolate pudding. After mixing up a bowl of chocolate pudding, they dipped their fingers in the pudding and began making brown pudding prints on a piece of paper… To this point [...]

Rainbow tracing in preschool

October 25, 2010

Rainbow tracing is a simple technique for helping children work on their fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, and beginning writing skills. The technique is fairly simple. You give each child at least three different colors of crayons and a shape, number or letter to trace. The children begin by tracing the shape with their finger. [...]

Learning to recognize our names all day long

September 14, 2010

Young children can learn to master their names with a “name-rich” environment.

Getting started on creating a print rich environment in your preschool classroom

August 26, 2010

Simple ideas you can do to create a print rich environment in your preschool classroom.

A simple name writing activity to do with preschoolers

August 24, 2010

Practice this simple name writing activity with your preschooler! In the middle of a room full of play and noise, I happened to notice a group of children gathered around their teacher doing a little name recognition and writing. As each child would get a turn, the teacher would ask if he or she wanted [...]

My name book: A preschool printable

August 19, 2010

Each school year, I like to create a name book for my preschool students to use. I put them together with all kinds of materials but to simplify things for my readers, I created this little name book template. In advance I create a book for each child. The number of letters each child has [...]

My pre-k handwriting book

August 18, 2010

This little handwriting book is simple to put together and keep on hand to help children practice their handwriting skills. The cover of the book is printed on the computer on heavy card stock. Pieces of lined paper are placed in the center of the book and another sheet of heavy card stock is placed [...]

Dry-erase board activities for preschool

August 16, 2010

A dry erase board and dry erase markers lend themselves to some great guided learning activities as well as the opportunity to color and create… Gather your materials… I like these dry erase markers because the eraser is on one end and the marker is at the other end… This is a dry erase sentence [...]

Preschoolers can make their own lines in preschool

July 18, 2010

Let your preschoolers make their own lines to color inside! Start by giving a child a piece of paper and some crayons…. Then invite the child to draw some lines…. And some shapes….. And then invite the child to color inside the shapes! How important are those lines anyway? The process of creating their own [...]

All children are writers: we just need to show them how!

January 25, 2010

A guest post by Melissa Taylor of Imagination Soup! What’s the first word a child learns to write? His or her name! Start with the name – add a picture and you have the makings of a letter to a friend. We know that kids love getting mail. Writing letters gives kids a gratifying purpose [...]

Providing preschoolers with structured and unstructured opportunities to write

November 5, 2009

Both structured and unstructured writing opportunities can benefit preschoolers but it is important to understand the difference and to know what is age appropriate. Unstructured Writing Opportunties Providing a writing center or writing tools on a table that preschoolers are free to explore are examples of unstructured writing opportunities. As very young preschoolers are developing their [...]

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