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You can ask that the class give each other an addition fact, name the main characters of a story you have just read, or tell the ways to make nouns plural that end in the consonant Y. The ideas are limitless. The songs are lively and hip. We dance while others are cleaning up centers, getting ready to go to the cafeteria, or to the library.

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Tall Tales I enter my class laughing hopelessly and then ask my students to guess what might have triggered my laughter. They take guesses and in doing so, each one supplies a line to form a complete story. This happens once every week. We bind this storybook, complete with the author's name and hobbies, and present it at the annual parent-teacher meeting.

When the students see it for the first time, they are extremely excited. Problem-Solving My class has a problem corner where my kids and I sit together to discuss student problems.

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I do not participate; I simply encourage the students to share. After listening to all of the problems, one problem is chosen and a discussion begins. I keep noting the minutes of the meeting and log the suggestions for that problem put forth by various students. At the end of the year, the class can actually see how much they have helped their friends. My class and I play a game in which we discuss what a trophy is.

I encourage students to think creatively by asking them what they would look like if they were trophies from various events. Continue playing the game until all the children have washed hands and had a turn. I Spy with my little eye, someone wearing a shirt that has Mario on it. Place the card in a Ziploc baggie. After mid-morning snack, my preschoolers walk through the hallway,then sit on the carpet for circle time. To help in the transition from A to B, I throw a rope from the snack to the beginning of our classroom appr. I then tell the kids we're walking on the bridge over hot lava or a swamp filled with alligators.

They really go along with balancing and getting to the otherside without falling off the bridge. The carpet is the "safe" zone. I purchased small tongs for clean up time. Instead of telling the kids to clean up I just turn off the lights and put out the basket of tongs. Once they each get a pair of tongs, we start singing our favorite songs while they use them to pick up the toys and put them away. This is great for fine motor and the children don't even realize they are cleaning and not playing!

When we have a few extra minutes, after the kids get all the blocks cleaned up I will dump it out and we do it again, naming the color of the blocks as they drop them in the bucket! Circle Time Transition Fun! Thank you to Barb from Gilbert, AZ for this activity! For transitions or children struggling to sit still, I use positional words and have the children stand up to act them out.

Say "Shake your hands above you.

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Shake your hands behind you Shake your hands under you that is their favorite. Sometimes I have the children jump up and down and count to a certain number. This helps to get the wiggles out while still learning important words as well as practice counting.

They love it and always laugh when we put our hands under us! Take a look at your daily schedule. Do you plan for your transitions?

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If not, consider re-writing your schedule to include them. You will then be planning for the changes that will happen anyway and this will provide some great opportunities for extended learning in mini time spots!

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Putting it in writing is more realistic--and makes it real! Doing so will save you a lot of time, frustration and wondering why, for example, you only have 10 minutes to play outside most days! Think about how much time your transitions take and then adjust your preschool schedule to reflect them. Need help planning your daily schedule? Click here to read my article on how to plan your preschool schedule. It includes downloadable worksheets to help you plan a realistic schedule that will actually work for you! Once you know when your have transitions each day, add them to your lesson planning sheets so you can plan activities for them where possible.

Some do not need to be planned for. Clean up, for example, requires nothing more than perhaps a 5 minute warning that clean up time is coming, an announcement that it is clean up time and perhaps a classroom clean up song! However, washing hands before snack may require some planning! What do children do while they are waiting for an open sink to wash their hands?

What do children do after they have washed their hands and are waiting for their friends to wash their hands? Hand washing can take between minutes of your day. Plan for that time! It's a great time to perhaps have a song can where you have index cards with the names of the children's favorite songs. Pull one out and sing!

Hand washing lends for idle time while the children wait there are only so many sinks available!