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...]
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 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...]
Shine Your Little Light On . . .
I am so happy to introduce one of the nicest, sweetest and most generous bloggers I know to you all. She is my classroom, techie go-to person, and her blog name 'Sharing Kindergarten' says it all. She's here today to offer you a sweet Freebie and to tell you all about how she … [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...]
Sparkle Snowmen and A Sale
Confession time . . . I am a longtime stalker and gawker of Deep Space Sparkle’s blog. I think Patty walks on water and must have rainbow colored blood churning through her veins. I am NOT an artsy person, but man she makes me want to be one. And more importantly, when … [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...]
And then there was that one day when Frosty came to school . . .
What do you remember about your early childhood school years? I mean, really? What are the memories from Kindergarten and 1stgrade that really stick with you? Perhaps for some of you it isn’t as far off as it is for me, but the things I remember aren’t the worksheets and the … [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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