This year, my school district implemented Project-Based Learning (PBL) as everyone’s professional development project for the year. If you’re not familiar with Project Based Learning, it’s a teaching approach that’s very student-driven rather than teacher-driven, and students explore a real world problem/challenge/question of their choosing while exploring possible solutions through various methods– research, collaboration, etc… An excerpt from Edutopia explains… Read More
Green Eggs & Ham craftivity
Last week during our jungle/wild animal theme, I attempted a hippopotamus craft that ended up being a Pinterest fail– thankfully, a new craftivity I have planned for Dr. Seuss week turned out much more successful! 🙂 I love, love, love the book, Green Eggs And Ham. I’ve done craftivities for Cat In The Hat and One Fish, Two Fish, but… Read More
Co-Teaching Tuesday: Pete the Cat in the PreK rooms!
I’m a day late with it, but here is the latest Co-Teaching Tuesday post! For small groups in the preschool rooms during Pete week, I did a coloring activity that focused on vocabulary. I used these coloring pages that I made from last year, where I printed a picture of Pete the Cat and wrote “I love my {color} shoes”… Read More
Movin’ Monday: Movin’ & ‘Groovin’ with Pete the Cat!
Oh Pete.. who doesn’t love Pete the Cat and his carefree, no stress, “it’s all good” attitude? We love Pete here in preschool! One of my goals this year is to do more activities where my kids are up and moving around while working on their speech/language goals, instead of sitting at a table. A lot of my little ones… Read More
