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I'm Marsha

Welcome to Differentiated Kindergarten! I’m a teacher-mom committed to the journey of creating a differentiated classroom for my students. It’s my goal to meet the needs of all my students through fun, engaging and developmentally appropriate activities.

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Customizing Boom Decks By Hiding Cards

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One thing for sure, when I create something, I'm always worried about giving teachers more than enough.' I want you to have choices but there is a fine line between 'a good amount' and 'way too much.' With that in mind, I thought it would be helpful for you to know that you can customize Boom Decks that you purchase for your students by hiding cards that you think are too difficult or too easy for your students. When You Have Too Much Of A Good Thing You're probably thinking, "Too ... VIEW POST

Find out a simple, useful way to customize Boom Decks by hiding specific cards from your students.

Virtual Hands-On Alphabet Mats and Activities

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When I made Hands-on Alphabet Mats for my students a couple of years ago, I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would need a virtual counterpart for students. But then came COVID and everything changed. Now, even though we are currently face-to-face, I know that going virtual is a possibility and one I wanted to be prepared for if it happened. So I decided to create a virtual counterpart using Boom Learning™ Cards. Alphabet Mats Hands-on is the key in kindergarten. Using snap ... VIEW POST

Letter recognition fun doesn't have to be boring. Your kindergarten students will be so engaged in these hands-on alphabet mats. If you're virtual, no problem because there is also a virtual option using Boom Cards that will engage them as well.

Name Practice In Week Two

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When you've survived the first week of face-to-face teaching during a pandemic, you move onto name practice during week two. I'd like to think that my class list is pretty stable now but the reality is, with students being able to move back and forth from virtual to face-to-face, my class list will probably be a moving target for quite a while. So with that in mind, I'm glad I have editable name activities that I can enter, print and go . . . Week Two This week was all about names . . ... VIEW POST

What do you do the second week of school during a pandemic? You start to work on names. Using all the tools that we learned last week, we focused on reinforcing letter names and recognition while building stamina during literacy stations.

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