PreKinders

Link: http://www.prekinders.com

Karen Cox created the PreKinders website in 1999. She has 14 years of experience teaching preschool and a bachelor's degree in early childhood education. Cox has studied a variety of education approaches and believes in hands-on, play-based learning, thus she promoted this on her website.

This website contains a wealth of activities and ideas to implement in a preschool classroom. They are organized by both subject (art, science, etc.) as well as theme. The activities offered are hands-on, creative, and unique.

The printables section of the website includes valuable resources for literacy, music, math, science, visual discrimination, and classroom management. I found the classroom management printables to be the most useful, especially the assessment form which list age appropriate skills for preschoolers. The teacher makes a check mark if he or she has observed the child demonstrate this behavior.


The technology page of the PreKinder website is a fantastic resource. It contains all the information a teacher needs to successfully use technology to enhance his or her classroom from pinterest, to ipads, to ebooks and online calendars. I particularly like the list of teachers to follow on pinterest. Browsing through these teachers pages I have found many great ideas.

Cox also touches on classroom management and organization while including real examples and photos from her classroom.

This website may be the most comprehensive and useful website I have encountered. It does not have any downfalls but present information in a useful and easily navigable manner.