Some of our little ones come to our classes without ever having held a pencil, and suddenly, they are expected to show what they know and practice what we teach with grace and fluidity using a pencil. But those little muscles don't always have it in them to perform … [Read more...]
Making Sense of Math: Real World Connections
Here we go again. It's summer and I always promise myself that this year I WILL NOT obligate myself a book study or linky, but when a topic is so good and meaningful that it makes you want to write about it, I think that you just have to make the time to do it. I mean THIS is … [Read more...]
Game Play, Freebies and Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites Chapter 4
I’m a bit late but back to hook up to the Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites Book Study and Strategy 4 is all about games. I love that research supports what parents and teachers have known for so long. Game play builds cooperative relationships, allows students to … [Read more...]
A Freebie Plus Organizing and Differentiating Independent Self-Correcting Work
You’ve seen my self-correcting cards here before, but I’ve been receiving a ton of questions asking how I organize these cards in my classroom to keep them easily accessible and differentiated with kinder kids in mind. So, with that in mind, I thought I would give everyone … [Read more...]
A New Spin On Morning Work and a Freebie to Get You Organized.
Morning Work! Yuck! Seriously . . . yuck! We feel like we need to have something for our kiddos to do while they file into our room haphazardly in the morning. Most of them are on time, but many are 5, 10 or 15 minutes or more late for class. I hate starting a new lesson … [Read more...]
Deal Me In . . . Again!
Last year, just around Christmas time, I posted about my family's love of card games and how I love using cards for teaching math skills in kindergarten. I was able to suggest some great games that are especially appropriate for younger learners and that have been given the … [Read more...]
Differentiated Kindergarten Winter Math Fun
Winter math activities (Ok, let's be honest, any math stations really . . . )are my favorite, because it just feels so much like game play to me and to my students. I know that many of you worry about accountability with math stations in your classrooms, but I really … [Read more...]
Spinning Up Math Fun and A Freebie for January.
I’ve had so many questions about spinners lately that I’m revisiting the subject and showing you exactly what a typical packet of math spinner activities looks like. I don't know about you, but I want to see pictures of what I'm getting. I want to see what it looks like in … [Read more...]
Organizing and Storing Math Stations for a Quick Change Over
It’s time to change out math stations, and since I get so many questions about how I organize and store my station materials, I thought I would do a quick and dirty post of how I keep it all together for a quick change over. As I begin to breakdown stations, I remove all my … [Read more...]
December’s Visual Math Station Plans and a Cyber Sale-abration
December is upon us and that means it’s time to change over math stations in my kinder classroom. My stations last about 3 weeks. So these stations should take me right up until Christmas. Now while I do have a Math series that I use in my class, as well as Daily … [Read more...]
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