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 …
I was pretty excited to reach 2600 followers this week! I can’t believe how much my page has grown in less than a year, and I love sharing ideas with teachers from all over the world. It’s such a great way to showcase all the amazing things that are happening in our classrooms, and to …
I will be going back to work on Monday after a long and relaxing break. I am excited to hear what our students got up to with their families, and we have lots of exciting centers and activities planned for when they get back. Here is a look back at a few centers we had …
Reinforce letter recognition and spelling with engaging and hands-on alphabet activities. Literacy centers you can use with your students to build alphabet knowledge. One of the most important skills to teach in kindergarten is letter recognition and formation. I use alphabet activities in my play-based classroom for literacy centers to build on my students’ skills. …
I feel like the time is flying by, and this week seemed to be over in no time! We had a lot of fun with our math and literacy centers, and we did lots of different art activities. Here is a snapshot of what happened in our classroom. Can you make a bat? This provocation …
We are heading to the farm next week, and our students are really excited about getting a chance to pick their own pumpkins! In preparation, we have been learning about the pumpkin life cycle and we had some really fun hands-on activities using pumpkins in our classroom: Pumpkin Geoboard: Pumpkin geoboards are a great fine …
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 …
St-Patrick’s Day falls during March break this year, so we have been doing some ealrly St-Patty’s day activities. One of them is to make some green sparkly play dough for this great invitation to play. I used this glitter to get the play dough really shining, and some green food colouring to get it the …
