Ladies and Gentlemen . . . please start your segmenting! That's right I said segmenting. Need a little something to get your kiddos' engines revving for segmenting practice? Well Learning Resources has these fun paddles, Sound Box Answer Boards, that are just the key to keeping them engaged. This is a fun spin on Elkinin boxes that your kinder (My girls loved it JUST as much as the boys . . . trust me!) are going to flip over. Who knew segmenting could be so much fun? Each ... VIEW POST
Sound Box Giveway from Learning Resources
Differentiated Polar Nonsense Word Work
Differentiating doesn’t always mean tiering. . . Remember that we differentiate in response to learning profiles, interest AND readiness. But once in a while, when the planets all align, you can differentiate in response to all three. I’m going to show you an example. Over the last couple of days and over the next week, my class will be focusing on polar animals. We’ll do experiments, write and even do a couple of crafts that focus on the study of both the Arctic and Antarctic. ... VIEW POST
Olympic -Sized Winter Sports Word Work
This Olympic - sized Winter Sports Word Work set is guarenteed to get your students excited for learning. Perfect for any winter, these winter sports themed activities are especially engaging during an Olympic celebration year but just as fun for those years when there is an Olympic break. So here's a peak at some of the Word Work activities that I've whipped up. There are 18 Activities all together so there is just no way I could get a picture of all of them. But I thought that I would ... VIEW POST
I Can Do It Myself-Segmenting Differentiated Kindergarten Style
“I can do it myself.” These are the words that every teacher dreams of hearing. How do we make centers and stations work? By providing students the tools that have them saying, “I can do it myself.” Much of the success in making centers and stations independent comes from solid management, routines and expectations. But having independent and self-correcting stations doesn’t hurt when you’re trying to keep 20+ kindersactively engaged. This week in my class we have been hitting ... VIEW POST
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 the coming months. They are recognizing chunks and referring to the word family wall regularly, and I can really see how confident they have become. Needless to say, we love word family work. I've had quite a ... VIEW POST
DO OVER!!! Sometimes ya just have to do it.
I am here to openly admit that I am a work in progress. I admit that as a mom, a teacher, a blogger and a friend that I often have to say "whoa . . . I totally need a do over." This time it was when I started pulling out my stuff from last year that I used for spider study during the spooky month of October. I pulled out my then 'Spooky Spiders Galore' and knew that it was due. It's not that I wasn't happy with the activities that were there...My kinders loved them last year. But there ... VIEW POST