Author name: Vanessa Levin

Announcing the Pre-K Pages Conference for Early Childhood Educators! July 15th, Plano TX Sign-up now, limited space available! I know many of you are now on summer vacation but it’s never too late to start planning for next year 🙂 The following pages have been updated with new literacy and math ideas as well as […]

I stumbled across this fantastic book recently: No Limits to Literacy for Preschool English Learners by Theresa A. Roberts. I have always been passionate about two things, teaching young children and working with English language learners so this book really jumped out at me. I thought I would share some of the highlights with you

I did it, I finally did it! I added the new writing page to the website this weekend. I took down the old journals page last summer and I’ve been receiving inquiries about when the new page will be up ever since 🙂 So without further ado here is the new Pre-K Pages Writing Page!

RtI stands for Response to Intervention and is a very hot topic in the education field right now. RtI is defined in Federal regulations as part of the recently reauthorized IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tiered approach to help struggling learners. Students’ progress is closely monitored at each

Yes, it.s true, the years spent slinging hash in my youth have helped me tremendously in my career as an educator. Kill .em with kindness: The meaner the customer/parent/colleague the nicer you should be, take the high road and let karma sort them out! Never let them see you sweat: Always act like everything is

Because I have an unbelievable amount of school work and reading to do tonight I decided to procrastinate and join in the Bucket Contest. Colleen from Teaching Heart Mom tagged me in this contest and how could I say “no” to Teaching Heart? The blogs that I like to read that “fill my bucket” are

I finished adding new printables to the following pages: Farm Transportation Easter The printables are located at the bottom of every theme page. I’m currently working on adding new math and literacy ideas to the Insect and Plants/Seeds pages. Please share your activity ideas in the comments section, I would love to hear from you!

I updated the following pages with new literacy and math ideas as well as free printables- the printables are a work in progress so check back again for more later. Transportation Farm Easter

I updated the following topics at Pre-K Pages: B.E.A.R. Books– Organizational binders for daily home-school communication. Word Wall– How to implement and use a word wall effectively in pre-k

I updated the following themes at Pre-K Pages: Fire Safety – new math ideas and free printables Dental Health – new math ideas, literacy ideas, and free printables

No, not Oprah’s Secret, or the Ancient Chinese Secret (for those of you old enough to know what that is), it’s The Secret of how to get young children to listen to you. I used to frequent an early childhood chatboard and this was the #1 question people would ask. During the 10 years I

This is a post I’ve been wanting to write ever since I first read the Shanker Report a few weeks ago. The official name of the report is “Preschool Curriculum and What’s In It for Children and Teachers”. The report is 32 pages long and if you don’t have time to read it in it’s

It seems that there are more of you out there reading my blog than I thought! I was honored to be mentioned on two other blogs this week: Teaching Heart Mom Elbows, Knees, Dreams I have become quite addicted to reading blogs lately. I use Google Reader and I currently subscribe to 31 blogs, which

We had an “Ice Day” today so I worked on updating the Dental Health page. I added new math and literacy ideas as well as a few new ideas under Art/Fun. The page is not complete but I thought it might be useful for those of you who want to get a head start on

I saw these pencils at Walgreens in the Valentine section, 2 for $1, and I immediately thought how they would make perfect “Kiss Your Brain” tools. “Kiss Your Brain” is a popular phrase from Dr. Jean and I used it often with my students. I would pretend to kiss my hand and then my head

After a long and hectic day of running here and there I returned home ready for some hot tea and ER only to have my spirits lifted when I found the following e-mail in my inbox: Hi Mrs.Levin I was in your class in 04-05. If you are wondering who I am I.m Nadya!!!! I

As you can see, the blog has a new look thanks to a very talented friend! I hope you like it 🙂 I updated the Bear page today with all new math and literacy ideas. I also added a new Frosty the Snowman board game to the math section on the Winter page.