So I’ve just finished up my second year of my revised, made-to-fit-for-me version of Daily 5, and, honestly, it just gets better and better. I feel like I’ve made it my own, and my kinder friends have found great success with it. So when the Freebie girls threw around the idea of doing a second ‘The Daily 5’ book study on the new 2ndEdition, I knew that I wanted in. I needed to know what ‘the sisters’ had in store for us now. So if you're interested too, just make sure you stop by ... VIEW POST
The Daily 5 Second Edition Book Study: Chapters 1 and 2
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 remembering the parts that went well and the parts that didn't, you can always improve each year. So I'm trying, desperately to make sure I document these first days of math stations and now Daily 5 Stations so I can adjust ... VIEW POST
Daily 5 2nd Edition Chapters 5 and 6 or “Make it your own and make it work!
Before I start this chapter review, I need to preface it with the fact that Daily 5 has been successful in my classroom mainly because I have been able to adapt it to my kindergarten students and their needs and behaviors. You can’t be afraid to do the same. Just because something doesn’t work, don’t ditch the whole philosophy! It's just like what we know about differentiated instruction . . . Assess, instruction, adjust! Each year that you do it, you will find ... VIEW POST
A Differentiated Kindergarten’s Daily Schedule
By far one the most common requests I get on my kindergarten blog is for my daily schedule. This has always been a bit of a strange request for me, because no two of my days of the week are exactly the same so I can’t really imagine how it could help someone else to see it. But when I polled my Facebookusers about their daily schedule, I got such a wide range of answers I can now kind of see how looking at a few different examples would be helpful, especially for those teachers moving to a ... VIEW POST
Daily 5: 2nd Edition-Daily 3 Math – My Differentiated Kinder Spin on it!
I need to start out this chapter first and foremost by saying that most of the time I was reading it, I felt like I was nodding in agreement, because it is basically very similar to how I structure my own math stations with a few adjustments. In a similar fashion that Daily 5 teaches our students to be independently engaged in literacy activities so they can practice important skills, Daily 3 Math does the same for math. The focus of Daily 3 Math is not to teach specific ... VIEW POST
Daily 5 2nd Edition Chapters 3 and 4. Let’s Do This!
Ok, so we are ready to get into the thick of things with Chapter 3 and 4 this week. I hope everyone has their book by now and is ready. But if not, the beauty of Daily 5 2ndEdition is that it is a VERY easy read and you can catch up quickly even if you don’t have your book yet. If you need a book, click on the link below and it will take you to Amazon’s link. Chapter 3 gets us started with the the '10 Steps To Teaching and Learning Independence.' It's one of ... VIEW POST
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