resources

Here are a list of resources that I have found helpful, interesting, and inspiring along the way...

Teach Preschool
Here is a link to Teach Preschool, a site that is run by a veteran preschool teacher with tons of ideas, visuals, books, songs, pretty much everything you would need to consider in a preschool classroom!

Literacy Beginnings
This book, Literacy Beginnings by Fountas & Pinnell, is a great resource that contains many routines, examples, and best practices when it comes to literacy in pre-kindergarten.  It is a handbook/curriculum of its own!

What Teachers Make
What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali is a book that advocates for teachers.  Based off the insulting question "What do you make?" one night at dinner, Taylor Mali responded not only by writing this tribute to teachers everywhere in praise of how they make students create, analyze, think, and wonder (among many other things), he also responded through poetry: check out this awesome youtube video of Taylor's poetry reading.  Get pumped up and inspired!  Be proud to teach :).