Lovely Preschool Teachers Podcast

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Are you a busy preschool teacher who loves gaining new ideas, perspectives and inspiration for your classroom? The Lovely Preschool Teachers Podcast is here to help you up your confidence in educating early learners in a quick, actionable way! As an early educator who is still in the classroom, Ashley Rives will share the ins and outs of how she runs her classroom in a play-based, child-centered way. Each week, expect a new episode focused on actionable strategies to level up your abilities and confidence as a preschool teacher. Ashley Rives is an early educator with over 17 years of experience and a strong passion to help teachers implement child-centered learning in preschool classrooms all over the world. You can follow her on Instagram @lovelycommotion or learn more at the Lovely Commotion Preschool Resources website: www.lovelycommotion.com.

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Analyzing Preschool Assessment Data

May 08 2024 11 mins

I’ve done a lot of required assessments in my day. And when I think back, I can confirm that I didn’t actually use the results from the assessments. I just got the assessment done and called it a day.But, the purpose of assessing is to check progress and if there is a discrepancy, to use that data to create lessons and learning opportunities to help teach that missing skill.Tun

Our New Assessment Approach in Preschool

May 01 2024 10 mins

We all know the importance of preschool assessment – it helps us understand our little learners and tailor our teaching to their needs. But traditional assessment periods can sometimes feel overwhelming. Testing all of the skills multiple times per year is exhausting and unnecessary! What if you were only focusing on specific skills to assess for each testing period? You'd be doi

Keep Circle Time Lively

Apr 24 2024 14 mins

Circle time is a great way to review skills and grow class community! However, what do you do when circle time feels like more of a hassle than it's worth? Is it hard to keep the students engaged? Is your circle time becoming boring? In this episode I will help you bring joy into your circle time!Topics Discussed:Why circle time might need a refreshWays to keep circle time livelyRe

Quick & Easy Circle Time Games

Apr 17 2024 14 mins

Raise your hand if you struggle to ‘fit it all in’.Relying on small group time to fit in all the things that preschoolers need to know just wasn’t cutting it.The problem is… since small group time often occurs during free play, there are many distractions. Not only do some children not want to leave their play to come to the small group table, teachers are often needed for

Keeping Our Year Simple

Apr 10 2024 15 mins

As Play-Based Preschool Teachers, we often find ourselves juggling multiple responsibilities and trying to create engaging and play-filled experiences for our little learners. However, while trying to provide the best education possible, we can end up getting overwhelmed and stretched too thin. Topics Discussed:Reconsidering classroom partiesSimplifying student giftsRethinking seas

Why We Need to Stop Telling Preschoolers to Share

Apr 03 2024 21 mins

Sharing. It's a common topic amongst those who teach young children. Why are preschoolers expected to share? What impacts might forcing young children to share have? What should we do instead. This episode covers it all!Topics Discussed:The reasons preschoolers are told to shareThe negative impact it can haveWhat we should teach insteadHow to help children solve "sharing issues"Con

Teaching Peer to Peer Communication

Mar 27 2024 24 mins

Preschool is often the first time that young children are leaving their home environment and trying out a classroom setting. This includes the need for peer-to-peer communication. It can be hard for children who have not had many opportunities to practice these types of interactions before. As educators, it is our job to help them navigate these peer relationships. Topics Discussed

Survey of the Day - Preschool Graphing

Mar 20 2024 11 mins

Question of the Day, Daily Question, Preschool Graphing and Survey of the Day has long been a staple in early childhood classrooms… for good reason.With children being quite ego-centric (a nice way of saying, they think it’s all about them), students learn new things more easily when they are at the center of it.So, when we ask each child a question, gather everyone in the clas

How to Use Environmental Print in the Preschool Classroom

Mar 13 2024 17 mins

As preschool teachers we are constantly looking for ways to incorporate literacy in our classrooms to support our young learners. One powerful tool that surrounds us every day is environmental print. This type of print refers to print that children see around them in their day to day lives, such as signs, logos, labels and symbols. Environmental print can play an important ro

9 Pre-K Math Games We Love

Mar 06 2024 28 mins

Looking for some cool math games for pre-k?I am a game-loving teacher who brings games into learning whenever I can. And math lends itself well to game play, because most of the time my pre-kers don’t even know they are learning! What’s even better… my students are practicing turn-taking and how to win and lose gracefully. Name me a worksheet that can do that!?Topi