Thank you...I do my best! I really do love teaching and I love the kids so much too. I feel very fortunateto get to do my job each day. Thanks for the nice comment.
Honestly, it's the only way to get the kids to feel safe and secure at school with their teachers. We have crying the first week...then rarely ever after that.
Hahahahaha! I've been there! My oldest cried EVERY day for a whole year! I hated it! She did it for me though...loved me so much and needed to punish me for leaving her...LOL! It's the worst!
What do you suggest for center time if you are a full day PreK program? Would you have free choice centers 2x per day? For both literacy and math time.
I have thought about this a lot actually. I think I would add some science-based centers. Kind of a discovery area or table that would be open only during the second half of the day. And I would probably offer more independent quiet activities for after lunch when kids are naturally just more tired and their capacity for focus is a bit diminished. I think I would do both math and literacy activities in the morning. Science, crafts, gross and fine motor in the afternoon if I had an aide all day. It is difficult. I don't know that kids that age can handle a super-structured all day program. some can...but some will really struggle.
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This was so helpful. Thank you!
I wish all teachers would be like you!!!
Thank you...that is about the nicest compliment I have ever received!
You seem to be a kind and compassionate teacher.
Thank you...I do my best! I really do love teaching and I love the kids so much too. I feel very fortunateto get to do my job each day. Thanks for the nice comment.
I'm a parent, and listening to your strategies helped me calm my anxieties. Thanks
I'm so glad! It is completely normal. If you are at a good preschool, chances are that your child is fine after you are out of sight.
I wish all the teacher take your approach.
Honestly, it's the only way to get the kids to feel safe and secure at school with their teachers. We have crying the first week...then rarely ever after that.
All these videos are for the child. I need one for me the parent. Lol
Hahahahaha! I've been there! My oldest cried EVERY day for a whole year! I hated it! She did it for me though...loved me so much and needed to punish me for leaving her...LOL! It's the worst!
SAME HERE!! 😢
What do you suggest for center time if you are a full day PreK program? Would you have free choice centers 2x per day? For both literacy and math time.
I have thought about this a lot actually. I think I would add some science-based centers. Kind of a discovery area or table that would be open only during the second half of the day. And I would probably offer more independent quiet activities for after lunch when kids are naturally just more tired and their capacity for focus is a bit diminished. I think I would do both math and literacy activities in the morning. Science, crafts, gross and fine motor in the afternoon if I had an aide all day. It is difficult. I don't know that kids that age can handle a super-structured all day program. some can...but some will really struggle.