I know a lot of you are getting ready to head back to the classroom. Are you excited to get to know those little honeys you’ll be sharing a room with for the next year? Did you know that one of the easiest ways to differentiate for your class is by interest, and one of the … [Read more...]
Get ’em Moving With Nonsense Word Fluency Fun From A Differentiated Kindergarten
One of the primary components of differentiated instruction is the need for constant and continual progress monitoring and assessment. Without knowing where our students are 'at,' we can not possible know how to instruction them. It's a cycle. But let's face it, progress … [Read more...]
Differentiate By Engaging!-Differentiated Kindergarten’s Bright Idea
Today I'm teaming up with a slew of other great bloggers to bring you a bunch of fabulous Bright Ideas. For me, I'm always thinking about differentiating. It's always there in the front of my mind. Somedays I think I do it better than other days, but everyday it's what I'm … [Read more...]
Differentiated Kindergarten Is Taking the Segmenting Plunge
What happens when you have 5 days of inside recess and then get two new students in 48 hours who have segmenting challenges? You break out the plungers that’s what! My students were super squirrelly last week when a couple of new students arrived and although we segment in TONS … [Read more...]
Special Freebie Delivery From Santa…one activity differentiated for everyone.
I received a letter from a reader this week that told me she was so intimidated by the thought of differentiating that it has completely paralyzed her from doing anything to get started. I get so bummed when I hear that, because I just know how great students respond when they … [Read more...]
Differentiating Word Family Study
This marks my class' sixth week of word family study, and I absolutely love the routines we have establish for participating in word family activities and the success my kinders are feeling in recognizing and reading these important words that will make reading so much easier in … [Read more...]
The KEY to making math stations fun!
Here is something I have learned about kindergarteners and kids in general . . . engaging them often means using real life objects in new and interesting ways. So when it was time to think about community helpers and math stations, I wanted something that was hands on and would … [Read more...]
Yatta!!!! Differentiated Number Fluency Fun
Yatta!!! (pronounced yacht-tah) I know what you’re thinking. “Marsha, what are talking about?” Well, here it is. I wanted a name for my new game, and I went to my experts . . . my boys! So here’s a little background information that you probably didn’t know about … [Read more...]
Using Color To Help You Tier Differentiated Activities.
Before I talk to you a bit about how I tier my activities by color. I always think it's important to preface things with a little review. Some of you have seen some of this so you can just skip over this first part. I never know who is going to stumble upon my differentiated … [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...]
