September is coming!

Before we know it, kiddies will be back for school and we will get well into routines, ready for learning! I have gathered some resources for the September theme that I hope will be of help in your planning.

September Theme:

I Build: I Create

There are several brainstormed topics that have lots to build on, oops!, sorry for the pun! Here are some Internet resources for:

CONSTRUCTION

Preschool Construction Activities

More Preschool Construction Activities and Resources

Construction Clip Art ( right click and copy image or save image as )

                  

 

Hopefully this will give you a good start! There are some fun and different activities so you can change things up. Let me know what else you could use and I'll add to your resources!

P.S. Don't forget to talk about construction safety! Safety signs, colors, rules, etc.!

Getting Ready

I am so excited about the workshop this evening. I really miss empowering teachers and children and forgot what a rush it is for me to get ready to share some super things with my colleagues! It made me think back to long ago times in my teaching career.

I had an amazing partner in my media center who could anticipate almost every idea and move! 

I got older but I didn't stop smiling!!!

Learning about language and reading involves all kinds of activities.

Can you tell why I love reading with others?

I know I will have a tired but willing group this evening. Teaching is one of the most tiring and demanding professions ever. My wish is to share and inspire and most of all, to empower!!! 

Great Teachers

Very often, great teachers are also great readers. They somehow go hand in hand. And great teachers inspire more great readers. From the very beginning of our existence we pull in information around us with sight and sound, drinking in details about our world. And then we add language. Speaking a language, writing it, reading it, using math symbols to represent it... these are all ways of sharing our world with each other in an abstract, yet predictable way. And achieving the abstract is a fabulous feat of the human mind any way you look at it.

This blog is for the great teachers at Goddard School. They are dedicated to the best environment, the best teaching, the best learning and the finest joy imaginable for children. My goal is to provide ideas, information, techniques, literature lists, and support for these great teachers!