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Thank you so much. I have always wanted to go apply as a preschool teacher or kindergarten but my problem and fear is lesson plan. And not familiar with writing lesson plans have kept me away from applying for positions.

How do you get your book?

What about green and red choices????

Interested to get more information of the requirements for a preschool in florida.

Thank you for this educational episode. Keep up the good work.

Would you recommend writing journals for 4-5 yr old children in a special education program?

Thanks for the video! Hope you're feeling well. You look great!

This is great! I am a parent of two little learners, K and 2nd grade, and I appreciate this so much. ❤

Thank you!

excellent information

Facts. Children cannot know something if you did not teach them or if they are not ready to know.

Thank you! great ideas

This is what I'm trying to do starting a day care so i can stay home with my kid

Thank you. I have been teaching for 25 years and it is helpful to always add to your tool box.

I love your idea with preschool where they make their own border that's awesome

I am new in the field. I am a preK assistant. There are a few students that are challenging when it comes to following directions and actually listen. However my lead will yell at them and they pay attention and will listen. The lead is trying to not continue this behavior. So any suggestions to get my students to listen.

I will look at your program next year...thank you

I needed this. Thank you. I'm a new parent and looking to start next Wednesday at home with my child. We are using the Twinkl curriculum

This was so very helpful! Thank you so much 😃

the school my nieces go to has a parent orientation that only the parents attend for prek (and its mandatory you lose ur kids spot if you dont go and since my area has a wait list of about 50 kids every year cause theres only 66 prek spots in the entire county) and also a meet the teacher night thats for the entire school which our school is from prek through 8th grade the kids will go there an entire decade i know sounds wild

How can we help if it happens everyday? Even after school has been happening for a while!

You have such great tips. I love your videos. Im so glad your feeling better i missed this!!❤❤

I've never done a closure because we dismiss from the cafeteria but I always say a good bye to my littles when they leave. 😊 Your short lesson here was awesome 👍 🎉

I love all the loose parts implementation!! I have several books on how to set up the environment but it’s first time I see someone implementing it! ❤ it! Love all of the ideas

Great advice- thanks!

I admire your capacity to adapt and survive, and become successful, while training in pleasant classroom atmosphere, such small children!

But like most of people who have intellectual disability or autism and adhd have terrible handwriting and i was diagnosed with all 3

Love the philosophy and ideas in Already Ready!!

Wonderful! I love all of your videos and I always learn so much from you👏🏼❤️😍. What are your thoughts on 4-year-olds having to sign in or write their names in a journal every day when they arrive in the classroom?

Kindergarten Teacher here! I completely agree with everything you have shared about fine motor and writing development. When students come to kindergarten, I really want them to know how to follow directions and listen. I want them to have experience with holding writing tools like crayons. In many states, being able to form letters legibly isn't a standard until kindergarten. The students in my kindergarten class still need and do activities like playdough, legos, blocks, puzzles, beads, and more to work on fine motor development, which will promote handwriting. In a recent training I went to, I learned that handwriting continues to develop all the way through 9th grade. Children need that fine motor practice through play in order to lay a strong foundation for handwriting.

Hello, Vanessa--so good to see you! Your presentation was such an organized and effective description of your three important points. So grateful for your experience and advocacy for young children's best experiences.

Thank you! I always enjoy your trainings and the Soar to Success Summit. Your last one on Executive Functioning Skills was so impactful. I still talk about it and use what I learned. It's so good to see you again. ❤

I have to agree and disagree. I don't use fine motor journals for printing practice. We make pictures with stickers, glue shapes that we've punched out with seasonal punchers, use dot markers and make pictures or connect the dots, practice cutting paper scraps and glue the pieces down, sometimes we will have their name or first letter of their name and they might dot it with paint dotters, use stickers to follow the line, or use manipulatives to follow the line. I feel like these types of activities are developmentally appropriate but they are just "housed" or "collected" in one place. Almost like a portfolio. I feel like my classroom is very developmentally appropriate with numerous authentic writing and fine motor opportunities and this is just one more way to incorporate fine motor into our day.

I always love your reconfirming of why I do what I do in my in home preschool program. Thank you for your examples of what children really need and, for that matter, want, at that time in regards to fine motor development! . ❤

Thank you your wise words about fine motor journals! I teach 3 year olds. My class is going from 3 days a week to 4 days a week this year. With the extra time I was considering fine motor journals. I realize the children’s time would be more valuable to experience with fine motor activities. Vanessa, I always treasure your words of wisdom!

Are you using AI? It’s distracting.

I loke your atitude!

Can I ask why you are using a filter?

Thank you for your amazing work!❤

I will be teaching a late two's/early three's classroom. Is it appropriate to have a morning message? If so, what would it look like for this particular age group?

You are completely " spot on " with early childhood development ! Thank you ! Thank you ! Thank you! Love all of your information !

Thanks for this, I completely agree with you. I’m a new teacher in a school that follows state standards for 3K students and I was try to keep up to the standards while respecting kids’ levels. I was conflicted by what another teacher said around May because one of my students (3 years old) was using controlled scribbles and didn’t know all of the letters in her name yet (she had a long name, 8 letters) and they said by this time of year she should have had more growth by knowing all the letters in her name and come close to forming mock like letters. And I was confused, thinking, ‘But she’s 3, and was 2 a few months ago?’ It made me feel like I was making my students fall because because of my inexperience and I didn’t say much but I felt that what my student was at was appropriate. I’m doing my best to balance student differentiation with the state standards. It feels like what is expected of younger students are changing.

Can you do ideas on what to put on a sensory table that’s mess-free?

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Dollar tree sells the trays this year (and they come with lids)! Great video thank you ❤

I like using wooden blocks. I put the shape of the block on the shelf for a label so the children can match it to put it the correct place. It teaches shapes of what shape to put away first on the shelf.

Hi I have been looking - did you discuss somewhere about not doing the weather daily during Circle Time?

Love the advice!

Thank you!! So helpful!

I can't believe people don't use flannel boards more! I admit, I'm old school. teaching for 30 years now, but they are so great! My twenty-something assistants told me that in their ECE class, the teacher asked the class how many were using flannel boards in their classrooms and they were the only ones who said they were. No one uses them! I make lots and lots of them myself. They look homemade, but I'm good with that. My main problem is the lack of good flannel board stories for sale online. I have a few. 5 little frogs, The three bears, the 3 little kittens but most are just items, like shapes, or bodies and clothes or food. Very few real stories available. I've made felts for the count down rhymes, like 5 little ducks, turtles, elephants, fish. But also I have BINGO, I was walking down the road, The hungry caterpillar, Brown bear, Brown Bear, Harry the dirty dog, Abiyoyo, Caps for Sale, Goldilocks and more.