Teaching Tips
Here you will find my best teaching tips. Things they don’t teach in college, like how to have a successful open house, or how to conduct professional parent conferences. Take your time here, it’s a goldmine of info that will help you teach better, save time, and live more!
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Nap Time Tips for Preschool Teachers
How to create a successful nap time routine in your preschool classroom. Tips to help make nap time run smoothly and help kids sleep!
Morning Work Tubs for Preschool
Morning work tubs, aka morning bins or trays, are small containers that hold fun activities for children to do as they arrive each morning.
Preschool Circle Time Questions
Answers to common questions for a successful circle time for preschoolers, Pre-K, or kindergarten.
30+ Activities for Social-Emotional Learning in Preschool
Let’s dive into what SEL in the preschool or Pre-K classroom looks like and explore some fun, playful, and meaningful social emotional learning activities that will help your students thrive!
Easing Separation Anxiety on the First Day of Preschool
How to handle separation anxiety on the first day of school in preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten.
Back-to-School Open House Ideas for Pre-K and Preschool
How to host a successful and memorable back-to-school open house event for Pre-K and Preschool classrooms. Forms, signs, and more!
Visual Picture Schedule Cards for Pre-K and Preschool
Using a picture schedule in a pocket chart helps create a consistent daily routine in early childhood classrooms. But it’s not just classroom decor, teachers should actually use it as an important tool daily in their classrooms. What is a Visual Picture Schedule? You can put a daily schedule on […]
Center Time Management for Preschool and Pre-K
Before we start discussing center time, first let’s define what it is. Centers are clearly defined areas of the classroom grouped by topic, such as blocks, dramatic play, art etc. Center time is a part of your daily schedule, it’s a time when your students visit the centers in your […]
How to Get Kids to Clean-Up
Clean up tips for teachers of preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. How to get your kids to clean-up after center time in the classroom.
Using Time Out in Preschool
Time out in the classroom, is it good or bad? Tips for helping your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten kids manage heir own emotions.
How to Get Kids to Line Up
Line up tips for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Tips to help you teach your kids how to line up quickly and easily, every time!
Intro to Play-Based Learning: What is it, why is it important, how to do it
What is play-based learning for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classrooms; early childhood education though play; play based learning philosophy.
How to Help Toddlers Wash Their Hands to Prevent Illness
Routine and tips for helping preschoolers wash hands regularly to prevent coronavirus and other illness; for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, toddler classes.
Preschool Morning Meeting Ideas
Are you looking for preschool morning meeting ideas? What is a morning meeting? What does it look like in a preschool or pre-k classroom? How do you get started with a morning meeting? Here you’ll find the answers to all these questions and more!
Why Play Is Important in Preschool and Early Childhood
In a preschool classroom, playing is learning; the importance of play in the preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classroom; play-based learning.
Play-Based Curriculum Materials for Preschoolers
Discover materials and resources for your play-based curriculum; play resources for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classrooms.
Teacher Planner for Preschool Free Printable
Free printable rainbow dot teacher planner for early childhood. Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten teachers can stay organized with this freebie!
Preschool Classroom Setup: Creating an Environment for Play-Based Learning
Components of classroom setup that are key to play-based learning; learning environment for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten; setting up pre-k classroom.
How to Use Pocket Charts in the Classroom
How to use pocket charts in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Pocket chart ideas and activities for sign-in, daily schedule, centers + more!
Preschool Classroom Management
Are you looking for preschool classroom management tips or ideas to make your teacher life easier? You’re not alone! I get hundreds of questions about classroom management from preschool teachers around the world each year. One of the biggest challenges all preschool teachers face year in and year out is […]
