Literacy corner preschool

Literacy corner by teacher jaja

Want to set up a successful alphabet literacy center in your preschool classroom? Learn how to make learning the ABCs fun for your kids...

Forced relaxation. It’s summer vacation! Summer is a time to rest, relax and rejuvenate. For me summertime means spending time at home with my daughter and husband. I love reading books, swimming in the pool and crafting. This summer is a little different. I’m recovering from foot surgery so I’m experiencing what I call “forced relaxation.” I’m in a cast and have to keep my foot up so my normal summer activities are limited. I’m not complaining but you can only sit around for so long before…

Ever heard of year-long literacy centers? As a classroom teacher, they absolutely transformed my literacy center time! Literacy centers were an absolute requirement during our guided reading block when I taught K/1. So, I jumped right in, prepping cute literacy centers that were sure to please any administrator. {15-20 different cute ones a week to be ... Read More about Year-Long Literacy Centers {with Free Choice}

New ‘help yourself’ writing display to encourage the children to write for a purpose in free flow! They are especially loving writing princess party invitations to post in their friends special boxes 📝🎀 #reception #eyfs #eyfsteacher #eyfsclassroom #primaryteaching #eyfswriting

Sensory Writing Tray for the Writing Center! A great hands on way for preschool and kindergarten to work on their letters. Great sensory activity to work on the alphabet!

Handwriting has never been easy to teach to kindergartners, but it is in the Common Core Standards that they learn how to print letters correctly. Each year I have tried through the traditional ways of working on fine motor skills the first half and then formal handwriting sheets the second half of the year. It never worked so this year I tried something new... An inquiry about lines! I asked the kids what kind of lines they knew of. At first they drew straight lines, but then started to…

The preschool writing center is an important area of the classroom for exploring writing tools while also working on fine motor and literacy skills.

Reading is perhaps one of the most important skills for a child to learn. During the school year, teachers guide and encourage their students to read, and they open them up to the magical worlds that only reading can lead to. So it’s important to continue to flex those skills, and keep kids open to …