My new Magna-Tiles Growing Bundle is live! 🎉 You've been asking me for more magnetic tile resources forever, so I finally made them. Here's how they work: students look at a challenge card, build the image with their own tiles, then match the real-photo vocabulary card. Build it, name it, own it. 3 levels plus "Can You Draw It?" pages, so it stretches into fine motor, vocab, AND a STEM center. It's a growing bundle with 18 topics total. 6 are ready now (Pets, Trees, Plants, Community Helpers, Dinosaurs, Back to school), and 12 more are coming, including Back to School, Numbers & Letters in July. Here's the deal: it's $18 right now for all 18, a dollar a set, and the price goes up every time I add one. Grab it now, get everything future free. 👇 [→Get the Growing Bundle Here] Can't wait to see your students building and drawing their vocabulary words!

The Curriculum Corner is the foundations course for The Creative Curriculum. Nine lessons, five videos in each one, walking you through exactly how I used The Creative Curriculum in my own classroom from the very beginning to the end of the year. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵: 🍎 Lesson 1: Introduction to The Creative Curriculum 🍎 Lesson 2: The Curriculum Basics 🍎 Lesson 3: Study Foundations 🍎 Lesson 4: From Classroom Setup to Interest Areas 🍎 Lesson 5: Structure Your Daily Schedule 🍎 Lesson 6: Create Your Laser-Focused Teaching Strategy 🍎 Lesson 7: Structured Small Groups 🍎 Lesson 8: GOLD Assessment 🍎 Lesson 9: Peek Into My Classroom 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, because that is where a lot of the heavy lifting lives: 🎁 planner for your first six weeks 🎁 A planner for assessment and using GOLD 🎁 A planner for getting ready for kindergarten 🎁 Four study bundles, aligned to the teaching guides, that I walk you through inside the course: The First Six Weeks, Balls, Trees, and Clothes, all guided editions This one is meant to be taken apart or worked through in order. Start at Lesson 1 if you want the full picture, or go straight to the lesson that matches what you are staring down this week. Assessment season, a study you are about to launch, your daily schedule. Take what you need and leave the rest for later. It will still be here. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘂𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿. Questions about a specific lesson, something you tried that worked, a piece you are stuck on, all of it goes in the comments right here so nothing gets scattered and everyone can learn from each other. So tell me in the comments: which lesson are you starting with, and what is the one thing about The Creative Curriculum you most want to feel confident about? 😊

Welcome to the Teacher Hub! 🍎 I'm so glad you found your way here. This community is built by teachers, for teachers, and it truly gets better with every new voice in the room. So before you do anything else, let's get to know each other! Drop a comment and share: 🚸 Who you teach and their age group 🎯 One goal you're working toward this year, in your classroom or in your life ⚡ Something you love outside of teaching The best part of this Hub is the teachers in it, and that now includes you. 🎉

Hey teachers! 😊 Real talk for a second. The first six weeks of school are the hardest weeks of the whole year. Routines that fall apart, big feelings at drop-off, a schedule that exists only in your head. Every year we say we'll get ahead of it, and every year August eats us alive. So tell me: what's the ONE thing about the beginning of the year that stresses you out most? Drop it in the comments. Your answers are shaping what I build next. 👇🏽 And here's what's happening one level up, because I'd feel bad if you found out later. Inside the Pre-K Prep Club for Teachers ($7 a month), members get: 🎉 300+ done-for-you resources, ready to print and use + monthly drops 🎉 The Jumpstart Challenge for play-based learning 🎉 The Jumpstart Challenge for The Creative Curriculum 🎉 With done-for-you resources and video guides for both challenges 🎉 This August: a LIVE workshop, Your First Six Weeks Playbook, so you walk into the new year with a plan instead of a panic. This workshop is for you no matter what curriculum you use. You'll walk away knowing what developmentally appropriate practice looks like in those first weeks, so you can bring it into YOUR room no matter what your program hands you. We'll use the 2026 Creative Curriculum preschool guide as our example because it's one of the most well-rounded versions out there. Club members are voting on the workshop date right now. Join this month and you get a say in when it happens, a live seat with Q&A, and the replay forever. The resources will always be there. Being in the room while this gets built happens once. 🙌🏽 If August-you deserves a calmer start, come join us here. Already a Club member on our other platform? You're covered. Stay tuned for your invite, appreciate your patience! And even if the Club isn't for you right now, tell me your biggest beginning-of-year struggle below. This community is exactly where those conversations belong. 🤗 Thanks for being a part of it.

Hey teacher friends! 🙌🏽 Yesterday we hit 500 members. I didn't even get a chance to post about it, because by the time I sat down to write this, we're almost at 600. That's how fast this space is growing, and honestly, it's because of the energy YOU bring. And I have to say it: this isn't just teachers anymore. We have teacher assistants, directors, student teachers, instructional coaches, admins. A whole community of early childhood educators who want to do better for themselves and for their students. I love reading your goals. You are so intentional, so motivating, and we all speak the same language here: play, and learning through play. 💛 Before writing this, I opened the Map tab. And I'm not exaggerating, I got choked up. The US and Canada, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand... we are literally all over the world. 🌎🥳 And it hit me: play is the universal language of children. Different countries, different curricula, different classrooms, and every single one of us is here for the same reason. 🫶🏼 Here's the thing you should know about me: I treat this community the same way I treated my classroom. I believe in building classroom community, and that doesn't stop at the classroom door. It's how I run this Hub, and it's how I run the Pre-K Prep Club. If you're in the Club, you already know how I work. 🍎 So thank you. Truly. For showing up, for answering each other's questions, for making this a space where educators feel less alone. Let's celebrate the only way that makes sense: if you have a teacher friend who would benefit from this energy, invite them in. Send them to the Preschool & Pre-K Teacher Hub and tell them to come say hi. Drop a gif below if you're celebrating with me, and tell us where you're joining from. Let's see this map come alive in the comments! 🌎 - Cathy