Valentine’s Day Activities: Find Valentine’s Day activity ideas to try with your kindergarten students. Hands-on centers, printables and FREEBIEs to make your day fun and engaging. I love celebrating fun and special days with my kindergarten students. These Valentine’s Day activities have been a hit with my students, and they reinforce some important skills. Here …
Fine motor activities: Work on fine motor skills with these fun and engaging cookie cutter activities. Find ideas for different materials that can be used in your kindergarten classroom. Have you heard me talk enough about fine motor skills? Fine motor activities were a focus of a previous blog post (that you can find here) …
Get tips and ideas for your kindergarten classroom. I will answer all your questions, and showcase what I have done with my students.
Need some ideas for Christmas? Here are some different kindergarten Christmas activity ideas that you can try out over the next few weeks: Create some Christmas transient art using some shape cutouts and loose parts. Our students loved making patterns, and decorating the different items. This is a fun STEM challenge that uses Lego. Jingle …
This is the ninth blog post in a series about Counting Principles. These principles are helpful when developing children’s number sense. It’s not enough for them to learn to count by rote, they have to develop a strong foundation of numbers and counting. Unitizing is the ninth principle that I am taking a deep dive …
A review of Counting Principles for kindergarten number sense. Free movement-is-magnitude counting cards for your students to use to practice this skill.
This is the seventh blog post in a series about Counting Principles. These principles are helpful when developing children’s number sense. It’s not enough for them to learn to count by rote, they have to develop a strong foundation of numbers and counting. Abstraction is the seventh principle that I am taking a deep dive …
This is the sixth blog post in a series about Counting Principles. These principles are helpful when developing children’s number sense. It’s not enough for them to learn to count by rote, they have to develop a strong foundation of numbers and counting. Order Irrelevance is the sixth principle that I am taking a deep …
This is the fifth blog post in a series about Counting Principles. These principles are helpful when developing children’s number sense. It’s not enough for them to learn to count by rote, they have to develop a strong foundation of numbers and counting. Conservation is the fifth principle that I am taking a deep dive …
This is the fourth blog post in a series about Counting Principles. These principles are helpful when developing children’s number sense. It’s not enough for them to learn to count by rote, they have to develop a strong foundation of numbers and counting. Cardinality is the fourth principle that I am taking a deep dive …
