🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop
- ⚡ Executive Function — Planning, sequencing steps, holding rules in mind while acting, and stopping a prepotent response all build executive function — the cluster of cognitive skills most strongly predictive of long-term academic and life success.
- 🤔 Critical Thinking — Being asked "why do you think that?" and forming and defending an answer develops the analytical reasoning children need for reading comprehension, mathematics, and evidence-based argumentation.
- ✏️ Pre-Writing Development — Drawing, tracing, and early mark-making develop the fine motor control and visual-motor integration that handwriting requires — making every drawing activity a contribution to writing readiness.
- 📖 Story Structure Understanding — Understanding that stories have a beginning, problem, solution, and ending develops narrative comprehension — the mental schema children use to make sense of increasingly complex texts throughout their school years.
Teachers have the best job in the world, and preschool teachers have an especially fun job. They have so much influence on the lives of their young students. Preschoolers seem to grow and develop before your very eyes. The best teachers have a passion for their jobs and can share their excitement with their preschoolers. These resources will support you as you try to be the best teacher that you can.
The Mailbox Magazine - Preschool Edition
The Mailbox Magazine is a fantastic resource for preschool teachers. It comes out 6 times a year and provides wonderful open-ended activities for preschoolers. Each issues comes with a membership to the Mailbox Magazine website where you can find printable patterns, calendars, newsletter templates and much more. A pop-out file folder game related to one of the themes comes ready to use in each issue. This magazine provides more resources than most curriculum books and I would highly recommend it for all preschool teachers or homeschooling preschool parents.
Featured Articles for Preschool Teachers
Creating Preschool Lesson Plans
Well thought out lesson plans can contribute to a calmer and more educationally stimulating atmosphere in the preschool classroom. Preschool teachers can practice child-led lesson planning to make the preschool classroom more exciting for each individual preschooler.
Make Each Day at Preschool Special
Preschoolers love to celebrate special occasions. Holidays and birthdays provide a wonderful opportunity to have an extra special day but as a preschool teacher you can find many ways to celebrate each day on a smaller scale.
Adding Natural Light to the Preschool Classroom
Adding natural light to the preschool classroom can help preschoolers to learn more effectively and improve their mood. There are many simple ways that preschool teachers can improve the quality of the preschool classroom, inside and out.
More Preschool Articles for Preschool Teachers
Ask the Preschool Teacher - Pam Koons
Create a Welcoming Preschool Classroom
Teacher Reward Kit - Preschool Teacher Product Review
Marketing a Home Based Preschool
Free Oral Health Kit for your Preschool Classroom
Preschool Circle Time Routines
Pets in the Preschool Classroom
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Preschool Bug Activities - How to Build a Worm Farm
After seeing your preschooler express an interest in worms (ie: play with worms), you may be wondering if there are any fun science projects you can do with your preschooler about worms. And yes, there are! You and your preschooler can build a worm farm. With this fun science project, your preschooler can see exactly what worms do to dirt and why they are such an important part of any garden.
Preschool Germ Activity - Teaching your Preschooler about Germs
Are you trying to teach your preschooler the importance of hand-washing? Are they not understanding about germs and how germs can easily move from their hands to other objects? With this fun and easy preschool germ activity, your preschooler will learn how easy it is for germs to transfer from their hands to everything they touch. They'll learn the importance of hand-washing while you teach them to cough and sneeze into their sleeves, shoulders or elbows.
High-quality educational apps and programs (PBS Kids, Khan Academy Kids, Starfall) used in limited, adult-co-viewed sessions can supplement preschool learning. However, interactive human experiences (conversation, shared book reading, hands-on experimentation, social play) remain far superior as primary learning modes. Screen-based learning is most effective when it is: co-viewed with an adult, limited to 30–60 minutes per day, followed by extension activities in the real world (after a nature app, go outside), and consistently educational rather than commercial.
