I can't remember when I started using locks and keys in my classroom. I just know that my kindergarten friends had an obsession with them that I needed to acknowledge and use that obsession to my advantage. They have since become a favorite instructional tool that provides … [Read more...]
Keeping It Simple With Tumbling Blocks
When you're planning station activities, whether its Math or ELA focused, keeping it simple can be the difference between your students finding success (and you keeping your sanity) and absolute chaos. Tumbling Blocks (or Jenga if you prefer) is a simple game that offers so much … [Read more...]
Sight Word Questions Answered and a Parent Freebie!
One of the reasons I love attending SDE's National Conference each year is because I always come home with a ton of questions from teachers about things I never think to blog about. Things that are just second nature to me . . . that I might just take for granted because it's … [Read more...]
Morning Work Fun for the Summer Sun
Summer is just around the corner, and I am happy send my little ones off with some summer fun themed Morning Work Stations these last few weeks of school. In case you still have some weeks left like I do, or if you're just looking for summer fun, you can check out all the … [Read more...]
Editable Color By Sight Word Mystery Pictures and a FREEBIE
It never fails to amaze me just how much my kinders LOVE to color. The simple question, "can we color this when we're done?' It always warms my heart, because it tells me, no matter how hard we work at reading and writing and math or no matter how much they enjoy all things … [Read more...]
Let Your Kinder Garden Bloom With May Morning Work
Traditionally, April showers bring May flowers, right? Well, April snow showers this last weekend brought me an extra snow day and a day to finish up May Morning Work Stations. Yuck to the snow, but yeah for a day to prep morning work. I know that spring will come . . . … [Read more...]
Editable Color By Sight Word Freebie
One of the most frustrating things in teaching for me in the past has always been the inability to make teaching materials fit MY students needs. I mean I totally get that huge companies can't possibly make a product to fit the needs of every teacher . . . they're more … [Read more...]
A New Way To Use No Fuss No Muss I Spy Printables
I have used I-Spy activities in my class to engage students and differentiate instruction for several years. Give a kid a magnifying glass, and you have a happy student. So when your students are engaged and happy and working at a readiness level right for them, it will give … [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...]
Setting Up For A Successful Year Of Daily 5 In Kindergarten
The beginning of the kindergarten year is such a blur. About halfway through it, you try to look back and figure out exactly how it all started. It gets difficult to remember the hard work and organization that it took to get your from there to where you are now, but by … [Read more...]
A Year Of Easy Sensory Table Fillers
Teachers are always contacting me and asking how to make activities more engaging and fun. Sensory tables are an easy way to accomplish differentiating by interest and learning profile. You can use all different kinds of colorful fillers with different textures … [Read more...]
17 Ways To Build Fine Motor Activities Into Your Curriculum
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...]
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