Listening and Speaking Standard Free E-Course

Do you bite your lip and start to sweat...

When you hear your administrator bring up the Common Core State Standards?

It goes something like this, "how are you meeting the needs of your children and implementing the Common Core State Standards at the same time?"

This is followed by a big "GULP!" from you.

So if you don't want to break into a sweat,

watch my first and free video E-Course on how I am ensuring that my children will walk away at the end of the year with speaking and listening skills they need to succeed.

Before watching the video make sure to download and print the note sheets and handouts.

Listening and Speaking E-Course from Learning & Teaching w/ Preschool on Vimeo.

Leave a comment below and let us all know what you are doing in your classroom to promote Listening and Speaking skills with your little ones.

I hope you will join me for my second E-Course on Meeting Your Standards and Have Fun Doing it!  On Vocabulary.

Grab your free general open-ended questions poster here.  

Resources

If you would like to purchase the whole learning center set go to Teachers Pay Teachers or Teachers Notebook and start next year off on the right foot.

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California Preschool Learning Foundations Vol. 1

California Preschool Curriculum Framework Vol. 1

Common Core State Standards

Dramatic Play Mexican Restaurant

Why we need to create different types of dramatic play for our little ones

Dramatic play gives our little ones a safe place to act out the things that they see the adults in their lives doing every day. It gives them an opportunity to experiment and see how things work. 

Dramatic play helps children develop

Problem Solving Skills

Knowledge on how the real world works

Language Skills

Cooperation and Sharing with Others

Imagination

Creative Thinking

Our Mexican Restaurant

Our restaurant sits just outside of our home living center.

To go orders

Looking at menu and finding money to pay.

If you look in the back of the picture you will see the stove area and worktable to prepare the orders.

Food is served.

The day before the restaurant was up and running we asked the children thing that we would need for the restaurant.  The first thing they said was money.  So off they went to the writing area to make their own money.  

 Here is some of the money they made. 

You can find the printable for this dramatic play on Pre-K Pages

Make Your Own Play Food

We like to change up our dramatic play often, but sometimes it is hard to find the right material for the job.

The solution to the problem

Make your own play food by using Crayola mold magic. The ideas then become endless and your little ones will be given an opportunity to explore and learn all different types of occupations.

Here is what we did.

 We are in the process of creating a Mexican Restaurant, but could not find a variety of food.

What we used

 White model magic this way we could paint each piece to look like the real food.

 After each piece air dried we then used water colors to paint.

 If the play food had small parts like the salsa in top we then covered it with Elmer's white school glue.

 Create play and have fun!

The Grouchy Ladybug

A fun way to get the little ones writing like a pro.

 Start off the activity by reading the book The Grouchy Ladybug.  After the story have a shared writing experience.

 If you were a ladybug what would you fly bye?

If you were a ladybug what would you say?

After the group reading and group discussion have your children draw and write about the grouchy ladybug at small group.

 Creative Art Project

Get your little ones writing and creating with this free Grouchy Ladybug packet.

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