Using a variety of materials that are engaging to different students is what will keep your math and literacy activities exciting and meaningful for your students. Watercolors paints are a valuable learning tool that can make move learning from mundane to … [Read more...]
You’ll Love This Assessment Freebie
You can love assessing and so can your students. I promise! Not only am I going to tell you how, but I have some freebies and amazing offers that are going to make it oh so easy for you to get started. Plus . . . you could win big . . . I mean like REALLY BIG. One of the … [Read more...]
8 Tips To Help Support a Kinesthetic Classroom
8 Tips to Help Support a Kinesthetic Classroom? Don't be mistaken! This is not a 'flexible seating' post. Flexible seating is part of the puzzle piece, but throwing a bunch of wobble seats and bean bags in a classroom, does not solve the problem by itself. What's the problem? … [Read more...]
Free Brag Tags For Ball Words
Several weeks ago, before all kinds of craziness broke out at the McGuire house, I had asked my Ball Word friends if they could have some supplemental resources to go with the Ball Word system, what would they be. I received so many great ideas, but one that I really wanted to … [Read more...]
Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites! Chapters 1 and 2 Bookstudy
I’m jumping on the Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites book study train this week a couple of days late, but I’m still delighted to be taking the time to re-energize and re-affirm my feelings and philosophies about teaching that start to get a bit hazy around this time of the … [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...]
Keep Them In Line and Sitting Pretty With A Giveaway From Sit Spots
I had a MAJOR problem when I got into my classroom this summer. You see, my classroom is very small, and with 25 kids, there isn’t a way to have one long line when lining up to go to specials or the end or the day or whenever. You know? So, I always had to have two lines at … [Read more...]
Differentiated Kindergarten’s Classroom Helpers
Do you have classroom helpers? Or is it more of a pain than a help? A reader recently asked me about using ‘helpers’ in my classroom and if I would share how I set this up with my kinders. I have to admit, I don't always do classrooms helpers because some classes just … [Read more...]
The Next Step Chapter One: Welcome to Our Book Study Adventure
And so it begins…another summer book study! Chapter 1 of The Next Step. Today's host is Crystal from the one and only Kreative In Kinder and Tammy from Live, Love Laugh Everday in Kindergarten. Make sure you check out their posts. The reason I’m so excited … [Read more...]
Introducing Stations To Insure Independent Learning
I've had a ton of questions emailed to me lately regarding how I introduce activities for my Math and Daily 5 (my Daily 6) Stations so that students are working independently. When you have nine math stations going at one time, it's impossible to be everywhere so independence is … [Read more...]
