Hey, I'm not some kind of differentiating wizard. Starting out the school year is tough. Kindergarten always seems to hold interesting challenges because of our vast age ranges ( 4 year olds to almost 7 year olds in some cases), experience or lack of experience in school, readiness levels, learning profiles and intelligences. Throw in some challenging behaviors, different languages, and learning difficulties and you have a recipe for a classroom CRYING for differentiated ... VIEW POST
Baby Steps To Differentiating . . .and a freebie.
YATTA Phonics Skills Bundle – In Color and Black/White (Growing Bundle)
Save 30% off these items when you buy as this YATTA PHONICS BUNDLE! These engaging games will address: Letter recognition Initial letter sounds CVC words Consonant Blends Digraphs Long vowel sounds Controlled R Diphthongs If you'd like to see a video of YATTA in action, check out THIS BLOG POST. In this Yatta Phonics Skills Bundle, you will get 8 Yatta Fluency Games. Check out the individual packets below to see all the contents of this bundle. ... VIEW POST
File Size: 219 MB
Digraph Word Recognition and Fluency Yatta – In Color and Black and White
Save 30% off this item when you buy as the PHONICS BUNDLE! This activity will help your students with Digraph word recognition and fluency and is available to print in color or SAVE INK and print in Black and White. Play it once and it easily becomes one of your students’ favorite, independent stations. If you'd like to see a video of YATTA in action, check out THIS BLOG POST. This activity will help your students with blending and fluency of simple digraph words. Play it once with your ... VIEW POST
File Size: 7 MB
Treats for Our Sweets
Who's that trick or treating at my front door? My favorite sweetest Freebielicious Followers? Love you guys! Of course I have a treat for you. I hope it's something you find as useful as I do.I'm always looking for ways to appeal to my kinesthetic learners. . . those little honeys who need to move and can't place their bottom on a seat if it were ducked taped there. Yep, those are the kids I'm looking to appeal to and why I use necklace-type letter placards when ... VIEW POST
Back To School EDITABLE Mystery Sentences and Questions Write the Room
Editable Write The Room Mystery Sentences and Questions Visit my blog post Editable Sight Word Write the Room Fun and More to see details about how this and other write the room packets are used in my classroom. This packet includes some words/sentences that I have added, but if you don't like mine, you can totally create your own with this EDITABLE version. This activity is differentiated to appeal to your kinesthetic learners and is tiered to meet the readiness of your students. There ... VIEW POST
File Size: 8 MB
Building independence and saving my sanity.
I knew that when I saw a class list of 26 little kinders, it was going to be everything I had to keep things under control. In order to keep things sane, I would have to keep my centers and stations small and in order to keep them small I would have to have more stations and centers. But with one of me and my allotted aide time, how on earth could I make it happen? I had to try and give my kinders the opportunity to be independent and take control of their own learning. I ... VIEW POST
