A second occupation we focused on during Community Helpers Week was firefighters.  I think it’s safe to say most little boys think firefighters/firetrucks are the coolest, so my kids especially loved these activities! First up, we read Clifford the Firehouse Dog and worked on answering WH questions! With my artic kids, we played my Tic Tac Trucks game.  We used… Read More

This week in preschool is Community Helpers Week. I love this week because there is SO much great vocabulary to be learned between all the community helpers and their tools of the trade! One of the community helpers/occupations we’ve talked about is dentists, which ties in perfectly with February being Dental Health Month, too!  We read a cute Dora story… Read More

Hi, my name is Kari and I’m an Olympics junkie. Since I’m a junkie, I decided I had to incorporate the Winter Olympics into therapy somehow! In small groups today in one of my prek classrooms, we did a fun and super easy Olympic rings craftivity involving some basic vocabulary. All you need for this activity are some paper plates,… Read More

“If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” is my favorite Laura Numeroff book, and I love when Laura Numeroff week rolls around in preschool! It has great illustrations to work on basic vocabulary and WH questions with my students as we read, and is engaging enough so that my kids love reading it more than once throughout the week, as… Read More

“Is it wine-thirty yet?” was one of the things I heard early this morning from a coworker.  I think while most of us are excited to see the kids again and hear all about their break, the transition back after 1.5-2 weeks off, especially after a busy holiday season, can be a little rough and often times, a bit hectic… Read More

Whew! It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a blog post.. That last week of school before break was crazy, and Christmas break FLEW by! To get back into the swing of writing, I thought I’d share my 2013 with you.  Saw this on Jenna’s blog over at Speech Room News and thought it was fun, so here goes!… Read More