I just recently updated my preschool classroom for our Sunday School class in a rainbow theme.  I've loved the bright colors so much that I've added a decor packet with some additional pieces to use with these sweet kiddos.  I love the simplicity and how bright and easy it is to read for primary classrooms!

Here's a closer look at some of the decor sets from this decor bundle.

Every bulletin board looks better with pennants! #teachertruth

This set comes with word wall sized letter cards, the first 100 Fry sight words, plus some of the 200 words, color words, number words to ten, months and days of the week.  And they all come with black on white or white on black cards. (Some of the specialty words come with photos or colors as shown.)

Plus, all of the Fry sight words included are the same sight words used in my first grade digital phonics curriculum!

Still prefer doing an old fashioned calendar over the digital calendar format?  This set has you covered!

In this rainbow set, dates 1-31 are available in white or black so you can build your own patterns each month.  American holiday cards and birthday cards are included with coordinating color letters.

Month cupcakes are available in the same coordinating color the month cards are in and black candles.

Or, if you'd rather have the birthdays all in one spot, use this printable to write in names in each month!  This is a super easy reminder to have right by your desk if you're like me and kid birthday's sneak up on you!

Here's a look at some other pieces included in this calendar packet!





And that's not all!  This Rainbow Decor Bundle includes tons more posters, charts, editable decor basics, labels and much more!  Grab this bundle at a big discount here!


   
It's no secret that I LOOOOVE a good anchor chart.

That's probably why I have an entire Pinterest board called "Anchor Chart Addiction."  It's definitely a legit problem!

Here's a look back at some of my favorite Math anchor charts we've made over the years.

Math Practices Charts

I use the Standards for Math Practices as our goals for each week in math.  You can read about that routine in detail here. When we introduce it we start the anchor chart and then add to the anchor charts throughout the year as we learn more and understand more about that math practice standard.

Here are a few examples from most of our standards for math practice using our old chart printouts! #throwbackpics Find the updated charts here!






Number Sense Charts

In addition to our Standards for Math Practices charts, sometimes we need specific charts to help us understand a bigger number understanding in math!

Our fractions chart from when we discovered how to equally divide shapes. Read more about the activity with this chart here.

When we learned about relationships between numbers and equations, we learned about related facts with this fun jingle that we charted together.  Read about that activity in detail here.

One of my all-time favorite math charts is one of the simplest too!  When my kids discover commutative property during math talks or our math wall time, we chart it.

I'm a big believer in calling a spade a spade.  So, equations that use the commutative property are not "flip flop facts," because that's not what real mathematician's call it.  They call it commutative property.  And so do my first graders! #steppingoffsoapbox

BUT, I love using the flip flop as a visual anchor chart reminder of what the commutative property is!

During our Counting Collections routine (read more here), we chart our expectations for building number sense during this weekly time.

Math Skills Charts

While about 80-90% of my yearly math instruction is spent on building number sense and algebraic thinking, we do spend some time on math skills too!

But since we don't spend much time with them, we need fabulous charts to help these skills stick!  Here are a few of my favorites!

When we work on our data investigations, we use this chart throughout that week to add to our ideas about what data displays need.  Read about that engaging investigation here.

We did a similar investigation on measurement using these digital math talks slides on measurement.

And more measurement with our pumpkin investigation.  Can you tell I like to make anchor charts into shapes! #easytofind

And, of course, our clock investigations and crafts which you can read more about here!
We just finished our healing unit in preschool Sunday School.  And my littles had a BLAST learning about God's healing power!  Here's an overview of this engaging unit.

Healing Exploration Stations

For each bible unit, we have exploration stations for the first 10-15 minutes of our Sunday School class.  Kids can choose which station to go to.  (You can read more about that here.)

Our "hospital" dress up station was a HUGE hit this time and stayed crowded each Sunday!

Healing Bible Stories

After our exploration stations time, we come to our carpet circle and read our Bible story.  I use these readers available in my healing unit to read the story.  I add details during the story too, since this is set up as a "reader."  Then, this story goes in our book nook for the kids to read during stations.



The Bible stories and readers included in this healing unit are: The Blind Man, The Deaf and Mute Man, The Paralyzed Man, Jarius' Daughter and the Bleeding Woman, and Lazarus.

After Bible time, we pray while we are still in our circle.  We used this healing unit to talk about the power of laying our hands on our friends and praying for them! #socute #bestillmyteacherheart

Table Time

After prayer time, we go to our kidney table and color.  I play a song that goes along with our unit and we sing and color!  The song we used for this unit was, "Is Anything Too Hard?"  My little loved this one!

When we colored Lazarus, I even had friends who added green "stinky fume" lines! :)

Healing Games for Preschoolers

After our coloring time, we play a game or do a craft that goes with our lesson.  This doesn't always work out for every single lesson, but for our healing unit, we had a game for almost each week!

When we learned about the blind man, we played Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
 

We we learned about the friends helping the paralyzed man get to Jesus, we used our creativity to find ways to get our "paralzyed" friend to "Jesus" too!

And our favorite...we wrapped our own Lazarus people and told them to "come forth" to be healed.

When we learned about Jarius' and the woman's faith to be healed, we made a healing craft by telling what we had faith that Jesus could heal on us.  **NOTE: we used washi tape for bandaids because my regular size bandaids were too big.  The mini bandaids would work great though!**

Line Up!

At the end of Sunday School, I walk our kids to children's church.  Each week, the line leader gets to choose how we walk (like soldiers, etc...)  But during our healing unit, I choose how we walked based on our lesson.

Any guesses which week this was?

Yep, we were the blind leading the blind! LOL!

So many fun things to do with this unit to engage littles in learning about our foundational healing doctrine!  You can find the lesson plans and materials for this unit here or get 2 years of units here!
I love having activities to do with our Bible stories to help reinforce the story with my preschoolers.  Our parables unit is the perfect example for this.  So here's a quick look at some of the parables we learn about in this unit and the activities we do after our Bible time to reinforce those parables.

The Lost Sheep & Coin

These parables and the parable of the prodigal son are all very similar.  So, we had similar activities for these.



For the lost sheep, I printed off these sheep cards and "hid" them around the room while the kid-shepherds were "sleeping." :)  Then, I "woke up" the shepherds and they went looking for the lost sheep!

When we learned about the Lost Coin the next week, we did the same activity, but I hid 10 pennies that time!

The Farmer Sows His Seed

For this parable, we planted our own seeds!  Note: there is an experiment handout for older kids, but we did not use this for my preschoolers...we just talked about it!

We tested out planting seeds on the road, the rocks, among the thorns and in the good soil--just like the farmer did in Jesus' story!

Then, each of our kiddos planted their own seeds in dirt....{thanks to overwatering they didn't quite survive, but...:(}

We also had a seed sort during our exploration stations time to go along with this parable!

The Wiseman and the Foolish Man

This was our final parable for this unit!  During the unit, the kids worked at our block station during exploration time to build strong houses.  But on the day we talked about this parable, I set up stations with different kinds of blocks.  Two boys worked at each station--it was an all boys day!! :)

Their goal was to work together to build the strongest house to hold a hardback Bible on top!  I gave them just 2-3 minutes to *wisely* build their structure.

Then we watched as each team tested the strength of their structures!

You can find ideas and materials for these activities, plus detailed plans for this parable unit here!

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