Teaching Preschool Need Supplies

First, go to the FREE web site called Letter Of The Week. www.letteroftheweek.com. It's a fantastic site that will lay out all of your lesson plans and can tweak it any way you'd like!

I would suggest pencils, washable crayons, washable markers, scissors, construction paper, computer paper for printables, glue sticks. Any other craft items you will need just buy as you need them. No reason to pile up on supplies that you may not need. You will need tape or tacks to hang up her daily work with letters/numbers/shapes/colors. I used a big bulletin board for my triplets. You have just one child so no need for something so huge. In the beginning I just taped their daily page on the wall.

If you have any questions on how to get started with the LOTW program, drop me a line at ____@____.com.

K. B
mom to 5 including triplets

Glue sticks, chalk and easel chalkboard, paper, safety scissors, paper, crayons, washable markers and paper. Did I mention paper? LOL

I agree with all the other answers and FELT is a MUST HAVE! We do lots of "flannel/felt board stories" at our house. It really allows them to express themselves! ;)

This is the list I went by:

Crayons, colored pencils, colored chalk, sidewalk chalk, construction paper, drawing paper, tempera paint, paint brushes of varied sizes, charcoal pencils, glue and glue sticks, pipe cleaners, craft sticks, yarn, safety scissors, brown paper lunch bags, and tissue paper.

I was able to get colored pencils, chalk, construction, drawing, and tissue paper, as well as glue and glue sticks at 99 Cents Only Store and Dollar Tree.

I never buy any other finger paint other than Crayola brand washable, because I have had bad results ( stained kiddo hands) with other brands, AND I always use one pump of soft soap in each dollop of finger paint ( eases in clean up and stretches the paint!)
We go through a lot of glue, both the white liquid/Elmers kind and glue sticks)
Stock up when they have back to school sales...as in buy by the case! Because no ther time of the year can you get such good sale prices.
White paper, colored construction paper and if you can afford it buy the finger paint paper ( it has a glossy surface and is thicker stock)
Paint brushes
water colors
Crayons
washable markers
Also, we get a lot of goodies from the dollar store...googly eyes, pom poms and even colored pipe cleaners
plain old cheap paper plates are great for art projects and also double as palates for finger paint
**you don't have to go out and buy paint smocks, but they are nice, I use a bigger shirt a lot of times...
yarn is great in different colors for different art projects
Good luck! It is so much fun= )

Dry erase board with washable dry erase markers. They are also awesome for the car. We used Handwriting without tears with this and loved it. Glue sticks are fantastic but sometimes you will need liquid white glue(dot-dot-not-a-lot....lol), poster board is always cheap this time of year and will let you make your own charts, weather center, color charts, word charts, etc. popsicle sticks, paper lunch sacks, paper plates, fabric scraps.

Sounds like many people have given you enough material suggestions to stock your cupboard.

Also, have materials on hand for counting activities. I had teddy bear counters for my preschoolers, but they loved using a bowl of mixed nuts far more. Also, Letter beads are great. You can have your daughter string them up to make a 'name necklace' for herself. (This teaches letters as separate symbols as well as combined to make the name.)

I also like notecards for inspiring interest in language. With my preschoolers, I took dictation for the message of the card. This is a concrete way to make letters and words relevant and to spark interest.

I'll just add two books for you, teachermama: MaryAnn Kohl's "Preschool Art" and her book "MathArt" she coauthored with Cindy Gainer. These books are must-haves and can be borrowed. Very very helpful. I picked these up a lot when doing lesson plans.

Also, there's MamaJen's blog (http://mama-jenn.blogspot.com/). She has an amazing wealth of teaching tools available. I was very impressed. Warning: you will see a lot of cool ed toys. I just peeked and am now in lust with the Guidecraft fraction puzzles. sigh. I'm not even teaching right now and still I drool over this stuff.