sensory bin: how I use my sensory bin in my kindergarten classroom. I share play-based learning activities that are fun and engaging to use in your classroom. I actively use my sensory bin in the classroom. It is changed out weekly and I use it to reinforce various skills: math and literacy concepts, fine motor, …
Spring is finally here and I am so excited for the warmer weather! What are your favorite spring activities to do with your students? Let me know in the comments! Make sure you keep an eye on my blog to see what we will be doing. Here is a look at some of the activities …
Our students have had a hard time with vowels lately, so we wanted to work on identifying vowels, and reinforcing their sounds. I created this new craft with this in mind, and our students loved making their own Vowel Flower! This pack comes with 5 different templates that you can choose from. I chose the one …
st-patrick’s day activities: find st-patrick’s day activities to try with your kindergarten students. Reinforce math and literacy skills with hands-on and fun centers. I love celebrating Saint-Patrick’s Day with our students. It is so colorful and you can do so many fun things with them. I use these fun holidays to practice essential skills my …
These past couple of weeks we have been learning about community helpers, and our students have loved everything to do with construction workers. We have based a lot of our centers around this theme, and they have all been a hit! Here is a look at what we have been doing: If I Became the …
This has been a busy few weeks in kindergarten! We had our electives day (students pick from a variety of activities, and our whole school goes on a field trip at the same time), 100th day of school, and Valentine’s Day! So many great things happening, but it was tiring. Here are some activities we …
A fun and engaging sight word activity to reinforce spelling and reading sight words. A great hands-on literacy center that is perfect for your morning word, morning tubs, small group work. To teach sight words to our kindergarten students, I try to use as many ways as possible to get them practicing. We trace, write, …
This past week was a hard one- we had 2 snow storms, freezing rain, extremely cold weather (-40 degrees Celsius), but we never had a snow day. It was tough to get through the school day when it starts with an extremely stressful drive. I’m glad it’s over, but winter is not even close to …
This week I tried something new on my Instagram with two posts that had images of all of our centers that we had set up. The first post I showcased all of the literacy centers we had set up for our morning, later in the week I showed all our math centers for the afternoon. …
I am always looking for ways to have our students practice sounding out and writing words. It is such a jump from learning letter sounds, to applying that knowledge when writing new words. CVC words are a great place to start since they are simple and it is easy to hear each sound. To get …
