The past two years I have been teaching microschool preschool out of my home with 5-6 students aged 2.5-5. We meet Monday-Thursday from 9am-12pm. During that time we incorporate academic content, foundational skills, practical life skills, social emotional learning, play time, snack, and project based learning. Our daily schedule is a mix of when their brain is most active and ready to learn, the flow throughout our space, when they need movement breaks, and through trial and error, what works best for the students. We started out with a completely different schedule our first week together, but after testing out new combinations, found the schedule that worked best for us!

School supply lists can get long. Pencils, crayons, glue, markers, the list goes on. But what are truly the unsung heroes in the early childhood classroom? Here are my top 10 favorite teaching tools that may or may not be on the traditional school supply list, but are used daily just like those pencils!