Lesson planning for preschool teachers can sometimes feel overwhelming. There are many factors to keep in mind — essential skills that need to be included, time allotted for tasks, time spent on planning itself and sometimes even cost of materials or necessary items for a specific lesson plan. Lesson planning
A sensory kit can provide hours of fun for children. We put together a few themed sensory kits to give you some ideas to put together sensory activity kits for your children or students. This post will also give information about our sensory kits * for our school families who have
Setting up a rainforest theme in the classroom is an exciting way to get your preschoolers engaged in learning. Not only will they have fun exploring their rainforest surroundings, but they’ll also be able to learn more about this unique ecosystem and gain important knowledge about rainforests, animals, plants and
Fall theme activities for preschool aren’t that difficult to find, but sometimes you want to do something different. That’s where we come in. In the preschool/kindergarten world, fall is apples, pumpkin patches and Halloween. We have some fall and Halloween activities to keep your students active and engaged for as
Yes, it’s true — a fact about bugs is that my preschoolers and kindergarteners love to learn about them every single year. As I have mentioned before, Bugs/Insects are one of my favorite Yogalore lesson plans to teach. I think it’s because the children are always so enthusiastic about the
If you’re doing a lesson plan on ocean life or the ocean zones, this demonstration is easy, doesn’t take a lot of stuff to create and I think the visual is very helpful for little ones. This activity can also accomplish two things — you can teach children about the
With the Chinese New Year celebration coming up soon, what better way to celebrate than with Chinese New Year Activity with yoga pose cards and spinner game?!?!?!?! Sometimes its hard to come back to school after the holiday break. We get it. Shaking things up a bit with some yoga/movement
Making playdough bugs and spiders reminded me of that game “Cootie” I played as a kid — you had to roll dice to get specific parts of the bug and of course the winner was the person who got their bug together first. This activity simply involves playdough, some crafty
Die cut machines seem like they’re nice to have, but not really necessary (especially in your home). I’ve always wanted a die cut machine, but knew they were kind of pricey — at least the die cuts were. I didn’t think the machine itself was that expensive for a one-time
Zora’s Zucchini by Katherine Pryor is a fantastic book for any gardening lesson plan.* I could go on about this book forever. It has several life lessons within the story that are great teaching moments. It’s the beginning of summer and Zora is already bored! Looking for something to do,