My kindergarten incentive kit has been such a hit, I went ahead and created one for my Pre-K friends . We all know as teachers that the standards drive our instruction, but getting our students excited to master these skills is half the battle. Some kiddos don’t come to school rea

Chart detailing monthly themes including holidays, seasons, and social skills. Helpful to plan activities for the entire school year. Appropriate for multiple age levels.

Get ideas for teaching your preschooler from this list of preschool themes.

This week we focused on community helpers in Tot School. We could literally do this theme for a month because there are so many different jobs and places that we could use for inspiration. But this was our first time really talking about the community and jobs, so I kept our learning to a […]

Although we did talk about ovals a little bit, we took a little break from shapes this week and had some Easter themed fun. Here is what we had planned: And here is what we actually did: Here are the 5 books that we used as our focus each day. Ten Easter Eggs by Vijaya […]

We are getting ready for summer here with our ocean theme which is always one of our favorites! Just 2 more weeks of preschool with my little ones before we take a break for the summer! Here were our plans for our ocean theme: And here are the details for each activity: Ocean Vocabulary: Our […]

Although we did talk about ovals a little bit, we took a little break from shapes this week and had some Easter themed fun. Here is what we had planned: And here is what we actually did: Here are the 5 books that we used as our focus each day. Ten Easter Eggs by Vijaya […]

This week was all about cows, pigs, horses, and barns with our Preschool Farm theme. We love taking a trip to a local farm every spring here in Wisconsin, so this unit was the perfect tie in to expand our learning afterwards. Here were our plans for our farm theme: And here are […]

The goal of an “All About Me” theme is usually to help classmates get to know each other better, but when your only student is your own child, that puts a bit of a different spin on things. For our All About Me theme we focused on emotions, family, and learning more about ourselves. Here […]

If you are looking for Easter activities for kids, you have come to the right place. Madelynn loved this week full of eggs, bunnies, baskets, and treats! Here were our plans for our Easter theme: And here are the details for each activity: Easter Color Vocabulary: Our first book this week was Happy […]

We are loving our spring themes this year. Our frog theme was a fun way to learn about animals and life cycles. Check out this week full of all kinds of frog themed learning and fun! Here were our plans for our Frogs theme: And here are the details for each activity: Frog […]

Our community theme is one of my favorites because there are so many fun things we can do. I could probably spend a month on this theme exploring lots of jobs, places and community helpers. Here were our plans for our community theme: And here are the details for each activity: Making Inferences: Madelynn loves […]

Fairy tales are a perfect springboard for little ones imaginations. We just returned from a family trip to Disney so there could not be a more perfect time to explore queens, kings, princesses, witches, dragons and more with this theme! There was just way too much fun to pack into one week so we split […]

Teaching about anything creepy and crawly really isn’t my forte. Truth be told I kind of freak when I see any critters running around (let’s not even get into my fear of mice!). But I do my best to suck it up and teach about things like bats and spiders every year and we had […]

Happy New Year everyone! We enjoyed a little break for the holidays but Madelynn has been asking for school every day since Christmas so we are jumping right back into our preschool routine. It has been below zero almost every day this week too so I am glad I had some fun winter themed activities […]