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Our circle area is where the children gather to listen to stories and
participate in large group activities daily.
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The yellow chair is where I sit for
whole group teaching activities.
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can see the rules chart (made at
Vista Print),
our daily picture schedule, our leader of the day information, and our
literacy and math center rotation chart.
- The white board to the right holds
our calendar math curriculum components; calendar, days of the week
train, number line, number bear, and counting hands to 100 quilt.
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The
schedule in the narrow blue pocket
chart is a MUST for all early childhood classrooms, it helps smooth
transitions by giving your students a visual reminder of what is
happening or is going to happen in class.
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The bags hanging above the white board are
Birthday Bags
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The Royal
Reading and Writing Easel holds our morning message chart, big books,
and much more.
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Classroom Rules:

It is important to have visuals to go
with your rules in an early childhood classroom as a reminder.
I made this rules chart using
Vista Print. It
is posted on the wall in our circle area so we can refer to it often.
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Calendar Math:

Days of the Week Train
There are many wonderful days of the week songs
out there.
The one I use in the
beginning of the year is to the tune of
"Oh, My Darling"
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There are seven days,
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There are seven days,
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There are seven days in a week,
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Sunday, Monday,
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Tuesday, Wednesday,
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Thursday, Friday,
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Saturday!
I like to use Dr.
Jean's "Days of the Week" song from Sing to Learn starting about mid-way
through the year.
The days of the week train is located under the
calendar and comes from our Everyday in Pre-K Counts math kit, by
Great Source. Each day of the
week is a different color, it is very colorful and looks like the train
from Donald Crews' Fright Train.
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Birthday Bags:

Each bag is labeled with a different
month and a die-cut shape. Each student's name and
birth date is printed on a colorful tongue depressor, then the sticks
are placed in the appropriate bags. At the beginning of each
month we take a bag down to see what birthdays are coming soon, then
we place the birthday stick in the calendar pocket chart on the
appropriate day so we won't forget the important birthdays. |
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Picture
Schedule:
Our daily activities are
displayed sequentially in a pocket chart and a clip is moved down
at the beginning of every transition to indicate
what we are doing. This schedule was made using Microsoft
clipart printed on cardstock.
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Teaching Easel:
I couldn't live
without my teaching easel! I use it to conduct the morning
message, read big books, hold pointers, I write on it like a
whiteboard, it holds my magnetic timer, it has hooks for hanging
charts on the back, and it has 4 large tubs underneath where I store
the books I am going to read aloud each day and all sorts of other
teaching tools I need to have at my fingertips.
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