Classroom management is one of the most important things a teacher can master. Here are 2 kindergarten classroom management ideas that work!
Kindergarten music centers can be daunting to try! These centers with a huge success with my students! See how I did it!
A free kindergarten math packet for at home learning.
This PDF has two pages. One handout with examples of 20 different kinds of lines and a blank one for students to create their own kinds of line! I like to provide examples for my students but then prefer to give them a space where they can try their own. This year, I used this worksheet with my Kind...
Halloween Worksheets worksheets with printable patterns can be a fantastic tool for enhancing your childs creativity and learning..
If you haven't yet heard about desk pets, you are missing out! If you are asking, "What is a desk pet?" You've come to the right place!
PRIMARY SCIENCE UNIT 1 - THE HUMAN BODY We are so excited to dig into Unit 1 in our science sequence! We kick off science this year with My Body and My Five Senses . It is the perfect place to start science with our primary kiddos. This year we are going to explore and learn about the
This spring is presenting new challenges for teachers all across the country. Some of us are getting ready to go back to the classroom for the first time this year. Some of us have been in person all year, but we are about to get new virtual kids. Some of you have been in the ... Read More about Classroom Management and Expectations
It is the first week of kindergarten! What do I teach? I get this question all the time! I am so excited to put together this page together for you. I’m sharing our favorite first week of kindergarten read aloud stories and the free coordinating printables I made to go with them. Plus I will s
Is your child ready for Kindergarten? This post will help you decide plus free worksheets focused on kindergarten readiness skills like...
FREE printable activity for toddlers and preschoolers to identify body parts and place pieces where they go. Great anatomy activity that also helps to build vocabulary.
I'm Sharing My Kindergarten Lesson Plans for Week One Of School! Including Freebies: Insta-Portrait and Build Your Name Printable Activities!
A perfect BACK TO SCHOOL activity! Encourage your students to share about their summer vacations by having them fill in this free resource! You may choose to have students draw or write in the spaces, providing differentiated opportunities to those who need it. Makes a sweet bulletin board! #backtoschool #freebie #kwriting #1stgradewriting #writing #literacy #education #kindergarten #1stgrade
Unifix cubes are interlinking cubes that are one of the best math manipulatives you can find. You can use the linking cubes individually for one to one correspondence and counting, or you can interlink the
New Readers Many of my kindergarten students are really beginning to read now. It is amazing to see how their hard work is ...
Have your little ones practice their scissor skills but cutting along the dotted line until they reach the Stop Signs!
SEPTEMBER NO PREP MATH AND LITERACY ACTIVITIES
KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 3 I am so excited to have my new Measurement and Data kindergarten math unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 10
Recently, I have seen some debates on using centers and the Science of Reading. If you have been a teacher for a long time, centers were a HUGE part of Balanced Literacy. Recently, teachers have shifted away from balanced of literacy to research based Science of Reading. You can read my Science of Reading Post ... Read More about Centers and the Science of Reading
FREE personalized name tracing sheet for preschool and kindergarten. Can be edited to include any child's name. Great for kids learning to write their name, as well as kids who need more handwriting practice.
A full review and look at My Father's World Kindergarten homeschool curriculum on this My Father's World Kindergarten homeschool blog!
As French Immersion teachers, we know how valuable it is to sing. It’s a great way to practice pronunciation, vocabulary and get our students excited about learning French. This list has a range of easier to harder songs. I taught some of these to my kindergarten students and also to 2/3s so it
Looking for awesome shapes worksheets for kindergarten and games to use in your classroom? This pack is filled with hands-on activities and no-prep worksheets to help children learn about and use shapes.
Writing in kindergarten has the potential to be so much more than handwriting exercises. The best kept secret to kindergarten writing is writers' workshop.
Make practicing counting, shapes, alphabet letters, what comes next, and more fun with these super cute, FREE Apple Worksheets for Preschoolers!
My First Centers - Literacy Centers for the first month of Kindergarten! As a primary teacher, I was always on the search for activities that could help ease my new students into the routine of academic centers. I needed predictable and familiar activities that were developmentally appropriate, hands-on, and engaging for my kinders in the beginning of the year. My First Centers are exactly what you need to get literacy centers up and running in your classroom. This pack has been created specifically for the first month of kindergarten. Kindergarteners need lots of practice and repetition before they are ready to work in true, rotating academic centers. They need to be able to work semi-independently and that can only happen when they know and understand the task and expectations. This pack will help build up that independence and set them up for success! Each activity in this pack contains multiple opportunities for students to practice skills in the same format. Included you will find ONE FULL MONTH of centers for the beginning of the year, including: 1. PRINT CONCEPTS CENTERS: ---Letters vs Numbers ---Letters vs Words 2. ALPHABET CENTERS: ---Magnetic ABCs: ---Uppercase ---Lowercase ---Upper/Lower Mix 3. PRINTING CENTERS: ---Uppercase Letters ---Lowercase Letters ---Upper/Lower mix 4. WRITING CENTERS: ---Themed Draw & Write (3 versions) 5. FINE MOTOR CENTERS: ---Playdoh or Pom Pom mats (26 versions) 6. MY FIRST SENTENCES CENTER: ---I like... Whole group cards and center work ---I see... Whole group cards and center work ---I can... Whole group cards and center work 7. LIBRARY CENTER: ---Directions for whole group lesson and center 8. EXPLORATION CENTER: ---Directions for whole group lesson and center Also included: * A SCHEDULE for teaching and running these centers the first month of school * CENTER LABELS (3") for a pocket chart or your center bins Please check out the preview to see a sample of all that is included! ----------------------Looking for My First MATH Centers??--------------------------- Find MY FIRST MATH CENTERS here! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you!
This is an emergent reader with simple text for early readers. I use this emergent reader with my kindergarten readers, but it could be used in pre-k to have the students practice identifying sight words and tracking print. It could also be used in first grade for struggling readers. The text in this emergent reader is repetitive and follows the pattern of Eric Carle's Brown Bear, Brown Bear book. It may be a supplement to a study of this book. This emergent reader is about shapes and colors. Each page focuses on a new shape and color. It has 5 basic shapes: square, rectangle, triangle, circle, and star. These books print 2 per page to save on ink and paper. We read these books together and they color them. When my students are finished reading and coloring this emergent reader they put it in their book baskets as another text they can read during Read to Self and Read to Someone during our Daily 5 rotations. *If you would rather purchase my growing set of emergent readers which features ALL of the emergent readers I have created and will create for one LOW price, please click on this link: Kindergarten Emergent Readers Bundle
In this blog post I share with you free name tracing worksheets. There are 7 pages in each file with tracing, reading, coloring, writing name.
Help those kids from getting the “summer slide” with this 100 page packet! Included is 50 pages of math and 50 pages of literacy including reading and comprehension, grammar, writing, and word work. This would also make a great addition for any beginning of the year work for 1st grade too! Click here to download. here …
Alphabet Journal in Kindergarten: Use directed drawings for each letter in the alphabet as a way to teach children their ABC's.
Preschool and Kindergarten positional concepts such as
The last day of kindergarten is a special day!! This cute sign that students can color on or write on is the perfect activity. QUICK ACTIVITY! I love having one of these pages out on students’…
These all about me activities for preschoolers are engaging, hands-on centers to work on essential literacy skills in the classroom!