Lovin' the Kindergarten Chaos in the Classroom
Another excellent activity for a Dental Health Unit. You can incorporate CVC word practice into your dental health unit easily with this printable set. User Suggestion: Cut the picture cards out and laminate. These can be reused. Dental Teeth Themed CVC picture cards and recording sheets would be perfectly used in: Work StationSensory Bin or Table Included In This Printable… Read More
Are you planning a Dental Health unit? This is a fun, interactive literacy activity that would be perfect to include for your literacy center during Dental Health Week. How It Works: Students can read a poem, hunt for the missing words, and fill them in. This is the perfect way to include balanced literacy, writing and poetry into your dental… Read More
Using Jenga in the Classroom A few years ago, I saw another teacher use colored Jenga blocks in a whole-group activity. The students were doing a math activity and each color represented a step in the process. This class was an higher grade level, so it got me to thinking about how I could adapt this for my kindergarten class!… Read More
I will admit, spiders and bats, along with other creepy crawlers and fliers, creep me out just a bit. Maybe a lot a bit! Funny thing, though, I still enjoy using these creatures as a theme in my classroom before Halloween. Students seem to LOVE spider and bat activities in Kindergarten. Spider & Bat Activities Spider and Bat activities are… Read More
Rhyming is an essential skill for students to learn but it can still be super purposeful and fun to teach! There are great songs, books and of course activities and games that can help you teach the idea of rhyming to your students! What is Rhyming? Rhyming is defined as “(a word/syllable/ or line) having or ending with an identical… Read More
Teaching alphabet letters and sounds is one of the foundations of literacy and early education. Students need to have a solid understanding of what a letter is, the sound(s) it makes and how each letter operates to make a readable word. As a current kindergarten teacher, I have had lots of teachers message me and ask whether I teach letters… Read More
As an early childhood teacher, I know that exposing my students to books and reading is imperative to building their literacy foundation! It is so very important for little learners to not only look at books but to HEAR books being read and to follow along with the illustrations and storyline. Each week when I am lesson planning, I am… Read More
Hello friends and happy teaching! I have shared about Using Environmental Print in the Classroom on my Instagram account multiple times, but each time I share an activity or picture, I end up receiving so many inquiries and questions about it. I decided to go ahead and share about environmental print here, along with a ton of free printable cards… Read More
Happy Wednesday friends! If you missed last week’s review of chapter 2, click here and check it out! You can also check out the Live video playback on FB here. Today is all about Guided Reading for the Emergent Reader – Levels A-C – Chapter 3 of The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading. (A little late to the Summer Book… Read More
Kindergarten Literacy Standards – RL.K.1 Hello and welcome to my new series, Intentionally Teaching with Purpose and Fun! I created this series for current and future Kindergarten teachers who want to understand, comprehend and teach the curriculum and standards in an engaging, purposeful and fun way! This series is set up to focus on one specific standard at a time…. Read More
