I purchased a new manipulative for our classroom and I am loving its versatility. We have been using this for math and literacy and students have been so creative with how to use them. The Rings and Sticks set form Hape comes with its own images that students can use as a template, but we …
Students were talking about growing a vegetable garden in our classroom. I brought in seeds and we planted our own little garden that is now sitting in the window waiting to (hopefully) sprout next week. I forgot to take a picture of it, but I will get one next week! For our small world play …
I’ve started a new Instagram account to document my daily teaching life and some of my products from Teachers pay Teachers. I want it to reflect my life as a teacher and some of the ‘behind the scenes’ action of our classroom. If you are interested in getting some new ideas for your own class, …
Our students were very interested in learning about dinosaurs, and so for the past week we have tried to incorporate dinosaurs into our centers to learn as much as we can about them. This is only week 1 of our inquiry centers, so make sure you follow my blog to find out what we do …
When teaching new math concepts, or reinforcing learning that has already happened, kindergarten students learn when they are having fun. I made these two new centers with that in mind, to make sure that our students would not only be learning, but will also be having fun while doing these centers. The first is using …
Can you believe it’s almost time for the 100th day of school? Sometimes the year seems to be dragging on, then all of a sudden we are at 100 days… We have a lot going on in our room over the next week, we are hosting a Healthy Eating Celebration (our class has chosen a …
We have continued to use fun activities to support our kindergartners as they learn new letters. These past few weeks we have focused on the letters Z and Q! We used loose parts (rocks, gems and jewels) to make zigzags! Our students have been loving puzzles lately, so we created our own puzzles! I printed …
My teaching partner had a great idea to start our SKs writing in a weekly journal beginning in the new year. We have some high students this year that are already great writers and we just want to get them practicing even more and teach them how to edit their writing. That’s where these sheets …
At this time in the school year, I find that students start to get bored with centers that we have been using. We have a good rotation of literacy centers that we use regularly and we add seasonal centers to the mix occasionally. At this time of the school year, I find that students begin …
We continued with our letter activities this week and focused on the letter B. We made gingerbread men/ladies bird feeders with bird seed. Students spread honey on to the cutout, then sprinkled bird seed on it. They turned out so cute, and students got to bring home something different to share with their families. B …
