Setting up an invitation for learning is a way that educators can engage students in learning and inquiry. It is planned with materials and questions that will prompt students to investigate and explore. Provocations are the perfect opportunity for educators to document and extend the learning that their students are doing. Setting up an invitation …
Get tips and ideas for your kindergarten classroom. I will answer all your questions, and showcase what I have done with my students.
While being on summer break, I am posting pictures from our classroom from this past year. It’s been nice to look back on some of the activities we did, and to start thinking of new ideas for next year! My Piggy Bank This activity was so fun to do with the money stamps (from Scholar’s …
Back to School: Get your math and literacy centers ready for Back to School. Ideas for activities that will take you through the whole year.
This past week was our Welcome to Kindergarten night. We invite students that will be starting school in September to come into our kindergarten classrooms. We have centers set-up and they can explore the different classrooms. We were assigned loose parts this year and we incorporated a mix of math, literacy and art into our …
Symmetry Activity: Kindergarten line of symmetry activity ideas with hands-on and engaging centers. Find inspiration to practice symmetry with your students. Over the past two weeks we have been investigating lines of symmetry in my classroom. My students and I looked at where we saw them in nature (bugs, butterflies, leaves), where we saw lines …
Our classroom was transformed into a flower shop a few weeks ago. Our students were having so much fun setting up their store, making signs, writing lists, making money to use in the store, so we extended our leaning outside of the dramatic play center and brought it into other areas of the classroom. This …
I am continuing on my Instagram journey, and I have managed to keep uploading a picture a day. I try to keep it a mix of classroom pics, products from my Teachers pay Teachers store and some ‘real life’ pictures. Here are a few things that I was up to this week: We have a …
The students in our class were showing an interest a couple of weeks ago in the weather and the clouds that they saw outside. So we decided to start a unit on clouds and see how interested they were in looking at different kinds of weather. Apparently not very interested because we have decided to …
Reinforce literacy skills with these fun, hands-on activities. Students will practice letter recognition and letter formations while using this fun manipulative. I was really excited when I saw these 30 sided Alphabet Dice. I was trying to think of different ways to use these dice in our literacy centers and use them in fun, interactive …
