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Interested in becoming a teacher?
The pages listed in the first few categories below will help you develop the skills necessary to become a successful educator. Experience is gained through trial and error, so keep a sense of humor and enjoy the adventure!
Teaching How Tos....
Teaching skills to develop:
1. How to teach skills
2. A sense of humor and setting boundaries skills
3. Writing and communicating skills
4. Organization skills
5. Problem solving skills
6. Appreciating parents as volunteer skills
Early finishers - what to do with the kids who finish their work fast
Thinking about getting an outdoor education degree?
Pros and cons of getting an online degree
The Art of Teaching...
Challenging Children with Everyday Things Ebook - weekly activities for teaching science and math
Teaching Kindergarten Page 1, Curiosity, kids, and books for beginning teachers
Teaching Ks Page 2, Always use concrete materials to teach little kids and more...
Teaching Ks Page 3, Thematic units make learning interesting and more...
Teaching Ks Page 4, Be flexible and understanding with young children and more...
6 steps to more positive classroom behavior
Homeschool Help....
Homeschooling Ks - Outside activities and more
List of early childhood skills to teach
Everyday activities - books that help teach with everyday things
Curriculum - 5 things to consider before purchasing
Be an expert! - how to teach advice
Supporting Parents...
Classroom readiness - survival skills for kindergarten students
Support parents - suggestions for parents to help their children at home
Summer learning - suggestions for parents to encourage children to review academic skills and have fun at the same time
Tutoring - Tutoring and online consulting information Tutoring FAQ
Teach Math Successfully...
How to teach math:
Teaching kindergarten and preschool math, how kids learn math
Kindergarten and preschool math - What skills do I teach?
Teaching math vocabulary:
Vocabulary - how and what vocabulary to teach
Math vocabulary activities - games, puzzes, art...
Teaching math with manipulatives:
Teaching with math manipulatives- helping students get it...
Ten steps to teaching with math manipulatives - an example...
Best math manipulatives - choose products that teach more than one math concept
Specific areas of the math curriculum:
FRACTIONS
How to introduce fractions and why...
Fraction games using math manipulatives...
Fraction pizza type toys...
GEOMETRY AND SPATIAL SENSE
GEOMETRY - What geometry and spatial skills should I teach? Geometry activities
ATTRIBUTE BLOCKS -Teach logical thinking, geometry and spacial sense
SORTING - Develop classification skills with kindergarten sorting games
CLASSIFICATION - teach classification vocabulary an skills with games
SYMMETRY -teach symmetry with games
SYMMETRY -teach symmetry with art
GEOMETRY GAMES - simple games that reinforce geometry concepts
PATTERN
Pattern 1- what pattern skills do students need to learn? Teaching tips
Pattern 2- ideas and games to recognize, create, copy and extend patterns
Pattern page three - help children know what you mean when you say "pattern"
NUMBER SENSE
Number Activities - how to provide experiences that build number sense
Learning Numbers - more activities to help children learn numbers
Number Games - how to improve children's number sense with easy games
Number Skills - what number skills do children need to know?
GRAPHING AND DATA ENTRY
Graphing 1 - what do I teach? how do kids collect data and organize it?
Graphing 2 - what do we graph? sample graphing lesson
Bar Graphs for early learners
Check out the SCIENCE section for more graphing and data collection ideas
MEASUREMENT
Teaching measurement - measurement skills and ideas to teach them
MONEY
Teach about money skills and activities
Teach about money with games
Teach about money with fundraising projects
CONNECT MATH AND LITERATURE
Math and literature connections - how books increase mathematical thinking
Ten Apples Up On Top! - open-ended math activity with a Dr. Suess book...
10 Little Rubber Ducks - ideas to promote math with an Eric Carle story
1, 2, 3 to the Zoo - practice counting, making number sets, ordinal numbers
One Hundred Hungry Ants - practice counting larger numbers and comparing single file to sets of 10s
Fish Eyes - practice counting and basic addition
Minnie's Diner - a wonderful book for teaching doublesMath and Literature connections from our readers...
Also see theme pages
10 Black Dots
Where's Spot?
Today is Monday
Share your favorite book that connects math to literature
Math index - index of math pages only
Reading / Literacy Skills...
Reading and Literacy
Hands on literacy activities
Listening and speaking
Phonemic awareness
Writing skills
Responding to literature
Christmas bulletin board story map
Guide to great picture books and criteria for choosing
More excellent picture books
Classic storybook videos
Beginner book sets
Book Awards
Tips for using mini-books
Outside activities that encourage reading and writing
Check the "Theme" section for more literacy ideas
Math and literature section
Drawing class books
Inspiring Litttle Scientists...
TEACHING SCIENCE
Teaching science - How tos and skills lists
Kindergarten science topics - Life, Physical, and Earth and Space Science
Creating a science center
Integrating science into your daily curriculum
Earth Science materials and equipment
Physical Science materials and equipment
Life Science materials and equipment
Make teaching science easy - how to organize for weekly experiments
SCIENCE FAIRS AND KINDERGARTEN
Kindergarten science fair tips
Science Fair ideas
ENVIRONMENTAL/ GREEN SCIENCE
Environmental science
Recycling for kids - Part 1
Recycling for kids - Part 2
Environmental education activities skills list
Year long environmental activity ideas
Free science worksheets
Green kids, not screen kids! and Earth Day
Leaf rubbing planet Earth - art activity
Pressed plants - art activity
What is Earth Day about? Teaching the concepts to young children.
Get an outdoor ed. degree
2 nature science experiments
Outside literacy activities
Tidepool Theme (see below in themes section)
MORE SCIENCE
Apple theme science
Light and Color - theme science & math activities
Winter theme science and math activities
Pumpkin theme science and math
Science magazines for kids
Science books for children
Also check out Holiday and Theme sections for more science activities...
Social Studies...
TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES
Kindergarten social studies - how to teach it and what skills do children need to learn?
Kindergarten social studies topics - what topics should I teach?
What resources are available? Recommended kindergarten and preschool social studies products
MAPS
Kindergarten Maps -Introduce a unit on kindergarten maps by reading Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins.
CONNECT SOCIAL STUDIES AND LITERATURE
The Gunniwolf by Wilhelmina Harper - connect to social studies concepts, ideas for literature comparison charts and story maps
Wolf Island by Celia Godkin- Teach young learners about the environment and the delicate balance of the food chain.
Hands onThemes...
TIPS FOR TEACHING THEMES
Teaching themes
Suggestions for yearly themes
More tips for teaching themes
APPLE THEME
Apple science
Apple theme math
Apple literature and art
Math and literature connections with Ten Apples Up On Top!
More apple book activities, apple classroom products
MAKING FRIENDS ONE DAY AT A TIME THEME
Helping kids - 6 tips to help children make friends
Student book 1 - Making friends one day at a time activities part 1
Student book 2 - Making friends one day at a time activities part 2
More ideas - Friendship math, language arts and art ideas
Parent tips - Helping parents prepare kids for school socially
LIGHT AND COLOR THEME
1. Light & color theme outline
2. Light science - light sources, materials to gather, lights in the sky,
3. More light science activities for kids - Make a collage to show that some things reflect light, light color vocabulary, light and color concepts, make a peep box
4. Light & color books
AUTUMN PUMPKIN or HALLOWEEN THEME
Pumpkins - math & science activities
Halloween Bulletin Board - ideas to display more theme work, two pumpkin booklets
Art and math Pattern for Jack O Lantern pumpkin rubbings, math graph and tally sheets
FREE Halloween pumpkin worksheets -
SPRING THEME
Kids Spring crafts -Chicks hatching and Curious George
Spring Crafts for kids - Straw blowing flowers, color mixing and snowdrop stencils
Spring Science -Teach students to observe as they create spring art and make a spring recording booklet
Spring tulips - Three finger tulip art Spring bulletin board -easy Spring flowers
Spring counting bulletin board -make renewing the bulletin board a whole class activity
WINTER THEME
Winter Theme Science and Math Activities -many math and science ideas for the winter season
Winter Theme Art and Literacy Activities
More Winter Theme Literacy Ideas
TIDEPOOL THEME
Tidepools Introduction - what do I teach?
What lives in a Tidal Pool? How do the organisms eat? Teaching tips
How do tide pools form?
Tidepool Field Trips
Tidepool Books
Starfish art and literature
Tidepool Modeling Clay Craft
Art...
TEACHING ART
Elementary art education tips
Best art supplies for kids
Kids Art Books
Art Ed books
Art Ed magazines
Free lessons
How to teach Art History
Teach with Art History Books
Teach Art with Picture Books
DRAWING
Basic step-by-step
Step by step circles
Squares, rectangles, and triangles, zigzags
Preschool and Kindergarten Drawing Tips - how to produce more recognizable art for theme work
Drawing class books
MODELING WITH CLAY PRODUCTS
Basic forms to teach and play products
Types of Modeling Products and books
How to Model Clay Tidepool Animals (goes with Tidepool theme above:
Starfish & Anemone
Crab & Chiton
Limpet & Barnacle
Holidays A to Z...
Christmas:
Christmas crafts for kids -free tracers and craft ideas to go with them
8 tips for a great Christmas season -includes craft bags, tracers and more
Christmas literature based bulletin board-create a Christmas bulletin board based on "Petunia"s Christmas" by Roger Duvoisin
Christmas math based bulletin board -create a festive bulletin board and teach math at the same time
Earth Day:
Ideas to celebrate Earth Day
More Ideas
Earth Day Art- Planet Earth
More Earth Day art - study endangered species and create art
Easter:
Easter craft- Hatching chicks and Spring kites
Easter literature crafts- Responding to literature with Easter rabbits
Easter Science - integrate crafts and science and cut down your preparation time
Halloween:
Pumpkin theme... Teach science and math with pumpkins
Science, math - Make a pumpkin book to record all pumpkin science and math observations and also a "Parts of a Pumpkin Plant" booklet. Kindergarten-lesson plan bonus - 2 free Halloween worksheets.
Pumpkin mini book - Make this simple preschool or kindergarten Halloween minibook to practice the letter Pp (or J for jack-o-lantern or H for Halloween).
Art & Math - Download these Halloween math pages to give students practice matching similar shapes. Introduce the concept and vocabulary of symmetry to kids as they match and glue the pumpkins together.
More Art & Math! - Pumpkin math art, graphs, and tallies!
Halloween Bulletin Board and free tracer - Instead of creating a bulletin board with 20 identical pieces of artwork, find out how to use 3 or 4 different theme activities (being sure to include one item from each student in the class).
Mother's Day:
Mother's Day Gifts - gifts to make and classroom activities
Mother's Day books - books to read to help students appreciate their mothers
Thanksgiving:
Preschool and Kindergarten Thanksgiving craft - potato turkeys and Thanksgiving poems
More Thanksgiving crafts -use holiday art to teach math
Giving Thanks - making Thanksgiving pie booklets to help children learn to express gratefulness
Valentines Day:
Valentine's Ideas
Valentines Day Party- Craft and party ideas
Valentine writing - make ABC puzzles and create, Love is..., frame sentences Valentine's dove craft - Easy Valentine craft that can be displayed as mobile
Teach Valentine's Art 1 - teach students about color, shape and overlapping
Valentine's Art lesson 2 - line and shape
Valentine's Art lesson 3 - tissue paper and glue pictures
Cooking - Valentine milkshakes and heart toast pizza
Secret message - Make a secret message card, rooster art ValentineVeterans Day & Remembrance Day:
Veterans Day - bookmarks, links and twirler craft
Remembrance Day- bookmarks to color, links and math counting activity
Creative Bulletin Boards...
Bulletin boards - as a teaching tool...
Bulletin boards - to help communicate...
Bulletin boards - more bulletin board tips...
Seasonal bulletin boards
Spring bulletin board -see holiday section above
Halloween bulletin board suggestions - see holiday section above
Christmas literature based bulletin board-see holiday section above
Christmas math based bulletin board -see holiday section above
Odds and Ends...
KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION
Kindergarten graduation Ideas
Kids gift ideas -Safe, educational gifts
Puzzles as gifts - to develop vocabulary, memory and spatial perception
Summer Learning -handout for parents
Materials for a Hands On Classroom...
Earth Science materials and equipment
Physical Science materials and equipment
Life Science materials and equipment
Science magazines for kids
Social studies play items
Circle time divider rugs
Hopscotch carpets
Road and street type rugs
Interlocking foam mats
Geography map carpets
Great magazines for kids
Early childhood picture books
More excellent picture books
Preschool and kindergarten software
Great board games for kids
Kindergarten online activities and games
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