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Teaching Kindergarten: 6 Ways To Promote Great Writing
It’s an amazing blessing to have a front row seat to the transformation that takes place in a kindergarten student’s communication skills. Some come to the classroom with very few words in their spoken vocabularies and leave for first grade … Continue reading
Sincerely, Your Little One’s Teacher
It’s getting closer and closer. The back-to-school ads have started appearing. The school supply lists have exploded in the front of Walmart. The backpacks have gone on sale. Your friends are squeezing in one last quick trip to the beach … Continue reading
100 Books A Month
Would it be possible to read 100 books in a whole month? Can you read too many books to a class? As December was approaching, I was thinking about my reading instruction, especially in the area of comprehension. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged comprehension, First Grade, kindergarten, Looping, reading, teaching
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Teaching Kindergarten: Let Them Talk
When I first started teaching, I was afraid to let my kids talk too much. Or too loud. Or too long. Or too “funny.” I was afraid that other teachers would think I didn’t have control over my classroom if … Continue reading
Teaching Kindergarten…I’m Through With Time Out And Pulling Cards
Or moving pins, or giving conduct checks, sad faces, stars, whatever you want to call it. I’m through with it, and I have ten years of reasons to share with all of you cringing teachers right now! I know what … Continue reading
A Year in Kindergarten
It is August. I look around my classroom. The floors are clean and shiny, the crayons are perfectly in order, every toy and game piece and manipulative is in its place. The chairs are pushed in, the computers are working, … Continue reading
Teachers Say The Craziest Things
You know, kids say crazy stuff. They do crazy stuff. And those of us who spend most of our days around them end up saying and doing crazy things ourselves. When a teacher is “in the moment,” sometimes words come … Continue reading
Kindergarten Students Explain Their Mom’s Best Recipe!
Every year at Mother’s Day, when I’m in my kindergarten year, I have my five and six-year-old students compile a cookbook for their mothers. I love hearing how they explain their mothers’ best recipes! In recent years, my class has decided to … Continue reading
Teaching Kindergarten…Fall Home Living Station
Here are some Fall Home Living ideas that our kindergarten group started last year… Fall has arrived! We are embracing it and celebrating it in kindergarten. Some of my wonderful kindergarten partner teachers and I got the ball rolling for … Continue reading
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Tagged Dramatic Play Centers, kindergarten, Kindergarten teacher, teachers, teaching
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20 Pumpkin Activities for Young Children
Woohoo! This Friday, me and my peeps are going to party like it’s Halloween!!! And by “peeps”, I mean my kindergarten students…and by “party like it’s Halloween”, I mean that we’re going to do some fun pumpkin activities. 🙂 Anyway, … Continue reading
My Story, My Song 