Getting ready for the new school year???

Get into your classroom as soon as you can!

The week you get before school starts is NOT enough. Start setting up your room two weeks before you are required to report to work. That way you can work on it leisurely and not feel rushed or overwhelmed with staff development meetings.


Supplies

What do you need? What could you do without? It's hard to make decisions when you've no idea of where to start. The best place to start is with the school secretary. He/she will know what materials your school already has available. You definitely want to take advantage of those materials as much as possible, otherwise you'll be spending half of your salary on decorations for your walls!


Ask about the following:

die cut machine? (for letters, shapes, etc)

laminating machine? (who can use it?)

border?

substitute folder?

calendar?

planning book?

 Planning for the first day

There are several different ways you can seat students when they first arrive in your class.

Allow students to choose their own seatPro: Doesn't require prior planning on the part of the teacher.
Con: Students will most likely sit next to friends which can cause early talking/disruption problems.

Alphabetize students
Pro: Will help you remember student names.
Con: There will be much chaos and confusion in the classroom while you "re-seat" students once they've entered the room.

Use a random seating arrangement.Pro: This is a great way for the teacher to meet each and every student as they enter the room.
Con: It does take a little while to write student names into a seating chart.

Tips for Seating Chart

Make up a "master" seating chart that shows either desk or table seating arrangements in the room. Make several copies of this sheet so that you don't have to redraw it each time you make changes.

The Early Literacy Connection: Patterns & Change

Children’s books and every day activities allow you to teach your students in pre-school  about early math concepts along with building her early language and literacy development.

READ

Build your student’s love of books by encouraging her to join you in saying a repeated text or pattern

found in the illustrations of a book.

Try these activities:

Blogger

I'm sure that in your life, you are involved in many kinds of technology. I’ll bet most of  are all great bloggers! You can use technology to your advantage in your classroom by creating your own blog and getting your children blogging with the help of their parents. For those of you who don’t blog, a blog is a Web publishing tool that allows you to self-publish commentary in a journal format, while adding artwork and links to other blogs or websites.

Sharing Ideas...

Turkey Craft

Eat Right,Be Bright! Creative work

Bulletin Board For Weather Names

4 Seasons Bulletin Board

Monthly Birthdays Bulletin Board

Painting  Idea

My Plate Colors

Dear followers ,

Our Chairperson in HU:Dr. Basma Faour,

       This fall 13-14 semester I’ve been taking the course of  Instr. Media & Technology  EDU 232, and I would like to share with you  my  experience in this course and especially  that Dr. Basma Faour , Chairperson of Social and Behavioral Sciences faculty in Haigazian University is teaching it.

 This course has provided me the following useful knowledge:

First, I learned how to integrate media and technology through the ASSURE model in my lesson plans more effectively and attractively. I learned when and how to include media and for what purpose. Second, I learned how to create my own media like worksheets, charts and even blogs. Third, I became more familiar with media i.e. I understand that media does not only mean Internet and social networks like Facebook for example. Fourth, I learned about the

Important teaching and learning  issues in Preschools Today:

·       Support and develop children’s innate capacity for learning.

·       Deliver a full range of health, social, economic, and academic services to children and families.

·       Find solutions to pressing social problems.

·       Promote early literacy and math.

·       Prepare children to read.

·       Social and interpersonal skills

·       Self-help and intrapersonal skills

·       Approaches to learning

·       Learning to learn

·       Academics

·       Language and literacy

·       Character education

·       Music and the arts

·       Wellness and healthy living

·       Independence

Children of the Net Generation

     Children today are technologically oriented. They are the net generation,and their growth, development, and learning are intimately tied to large doses of television,videos,electronic games,and computers in the home and shopping centers. Today, more and more students have laptop and handheld computers that easily carry back and forth between home and school. Technology is growing part of the world of young children.It has a great deal to offer, and there is much that young children can learn via technology in all domains-cognitive, social, emotional, and linguistic. Software is designed for children as young as nine months; it’s often referred as lapware because children are held in their parents’ laps to use it, and it is intended to be used by parents and children together.

     You will find many software programs for the very young such as the Reader Rabbit Playtime.it is a game that allows children to explore colors, shapes ,songs, animals….Moreover, as a future teacher ,I think I should integrate technology in my program. Integrating technology into educational curriculum provides students with additional tools to enhance their learning .I think technology in the classroom can help students become capable users, information seekers, problem solvers and decision makers. But the question is how to integrate technology into your instructional activities? Here are some examples:

1-In kindergarten, students can use multimedia software to create a slide show that demonstrates their knowledge of any subject. The students may choose pictures from a gallery to match the sound that the teacher assigns and then creates a slide show either as a group or individual project. Children save the slide show as a podcast to post to the teacher’s website.

2-Second grade students can use a digital video camera to record their participation in a science class. The children can also save the video to classroom computers for later review.

3- I can make use of the interactive SMART board which is one of the most valuable teaching and learning tools in the early childhood classroom.

4-Using iPods in the classroom can   help students to increase fluency with English language learners…

5-Student Response Systems , also known as Classroom Performance Systems, and clickers are an ideal way to get students actively involved in their learning!

     At last, preparing students to participate in the digital world is an important educational goal. Finding ways to achieve this goal is the challenge of all educators. Children  , teachers, and schools all over the country are in different stages of using technology to facilitate and support teaching and learning.

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Read To Succeed

Developing a love of the written word can begin in early childhood years. ECE students who are read to are much more likely to read earlier, understand concepts better, and be faster learners than babies who do not have the chance to experience books.

Choosing a variety of well written, colorful, and entertaining stories from some of the best children’s books ever will help develop a love of reading and a love of learning in your students .

Here are 10 best children’s books:

The Giving Tree: By Shel Silverstein

Goodnight Moon:  By Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd,

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: By Judy and Ron Barrett

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Eric Carle

Pat the Bunny:By Dorothy Kunhardt

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?: By Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle.

Once Upon a Potty: By Alona Frankel

The Red Book: By David Wiesner,

The Runaway Bunny: By Margaret Wise Brown

Amazing Grace: By  Mary Hoffman

http://childrensbooksguide.com/