New center designs

Some after pictures of my newly designed centers!!!

                                                           Soon to be my word wall for writing center

                                                       Reading Center!  Soooo happy with it! 

Will add more soon

Getting Ready for Valentines Day

I have found SO many cute ideas for Valentines Day-decided I would post them here to share with my friends and so I would remember them all (since I am just the slightest bit ADD).


Super Cute Valentine holders (Different from the same old shoeboxes)-or just cute decorations.


I have many children that love copying words-any words....we have started working in writing journals-where the children have some sort of a prompt.  We have done this at group time and for the most part the children really get into it.  I usually write a word that has to do with what we are writing/drawing about and the children copy it onto their paper.  I am working on focusing where we start writing (top left corner, writing left to right) and showing them that it is very important that we put the letters in the correct order for it to spell the word we are wanting to write.  Then I have them draw a picture about the prompt.  After they are finished I either dictate their drawing or help some of the more advanced children sound out some of the words they are wanting to use.  Super excited to post this for our Valentines writing journals (may only put a few, not all since we are PreK).  I will also put the words in writing center for the children to have access to during center time.
Valentine Words


Also LOVE this idea-Valentine number match!

Getting Organized

Looking around my classroom I have decided that I am ready for this craziness to get organized and cute!  I swear pinterest is the greatest thing I have ever come across....I can steal ideas from all kinds of teachers and they are glad to give them to me!  .  Looking around my class I realized that a) it is not very aesthetically pleasing (forgive my spelling please) b) there is no "method" to my madness c) I desperately want to have a super cute classroom that every child wants to be in and every teacher wants to copy!  I quickly realized that I have always had a "crafty" sole, I just needed a little direction.  I always see things and buy them thinking-that would be so cute to use, but then get too scared that I will mess them up by painting them or changing them so I do nothing and simply put them in the closet.  Well thank you to all the "DIY" pins I have now had the courage to "Do It Myself"!!!!   Yay!  To start out I decided to work on my Reading Center.  I am almost done and will post pictures soon!  The children have already been drawn towards the pretty new reading center!  I am also going to start matching my "bins" to each other and to the colors of each center.  You don't really think about how the little things like mismatched bins can change a look of a classroom until you see pictures of classes with things that match.

Here Goes Nothing

Here goes nothing...I have decided to finally join the "Blog World".  Decided I wanted to have somewhere to put things that I am doing in my PreK classroom and add things that I want to do as well!  I hope you you all enjoy:)

Here is one thing I just made for my class thanks to a pin from pinterest that my children absolutely love!  This has to do with our Winter theme.