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 …
To teach sight words to our kindergarten students, we try to use as many ways as possible to get them practicing. We trace, write, build, make, and anything else we can think of! Those little hands have to keep busy, and they learn best when they have hands-on centers that they can interact with. I …
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 …
I have had such a great winter break- I got some much needed rest, and I am ready to take on the rest of the school year! I am excited to see our students again, and we have so many great centers and activities planned to do with them. Here is a look back at …
We are one day away from winter break, and I didn’t think I was going to make it for a moment. I’m am looking forward to having two weeks off to relax and hit the reset button. Here are few activities from our past week in kindergarten: Penguin Art We did a winter art rotation …
