My Take a Look Back blog posts are a way of sharing some of the content I have on Instagram from the past week. I pick 4 posts that I want to highlight and take a closer look at, and write a blog post about them. A new year has started and I see so …
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Math Books for the Beginning of the School Year
Kindergarten Books to Read: A list of math books for the beginning of the school year to add to your classroom library. Great books to reinforce number sense and sorting skills. This post contains affiliate links. At the beginning of the school year, I cover simple math concepts like number sense and sorting. Having math …
Alphabet Books for Kindergarten
Kindergarten books to read: A list of alphabet books for the beginning of the school year to add to your classroom library. Great books to reinforce phonics and letter recognition. This post contains affiliate links.At the beginning of the school year, I love to have a variety of alphabet kindergarten books available to our kindergarten …
Organizing my Teaching, Professional and Personal life
Teacher Organization: How do I keep my life organized? Keep reading to find out my tips and tricks for organizing my personal, professional and teaching life!
Reading Logs Made Easy!
I am so excited about these new Reading Log Challenges I have added to my home reading program. I have done a home reading program every year with my students. We send home a book weekly for families to read with their child. When they send it back, they get a new one. It is …
Coding in Kindergarten – Why, What, When & How
Kindergarten Coding: Learn tips and tricks to teach your kindergarten students valuable coding skills. You will find out why, what, when and how to teach your class how to code. One of my most favourite topics to teach kindergarten students is coding! In this blog post, I am going to do a run down of …
Space Math and Literacy Activities for Kindergarten with a FREEBIE
space activities: math and literacy spaced-themed centers for kindergarten. Have fun with these activities while learning about stars and planets. Our students started showing an interest in space, so we decided to start an inquiry in our classroom. We planned activities, and centers based around space and we did them over 2 weeks. During this …
Take a Look Back #73- pompom addition, ABC Countdown, roll & rhyme, and more!
We have been trying hard to make sure our literacy and math centers are still engaging as we approach the end of the school year. Here are a few activities that our students have found engaging over the past week. Roll and Add Our students practiced their adding skills with this math provocation. They rolled …
Get Your Kindergarten Students Writing
Kindergarten Writing: read about tips and tricks to get your kindergarten students writing. With hands-on ideas and a freebie to get your writing center started, you will have your students writing in no time! I’ve had this question a few times: How do you get your students to write? I am going to try …
Take a Look Back #72- Earth Day loose parts, Number line subtraction, STEM name coding FREEBIE, and more!
This past week we worked on subtraction using a number line, and finished up our Earth Day activities. We also challenged our students with a coding STEM activity that uses binary code (keep reading for a free printable). Our students practiced writing CVC words with different centers. Keep reading to see what we have been …