During pre-planning, I made a bold move. I got rid of my teacher's desk from my classroom. Why? Well, I never sat in it. It was the catch all. Then I had to clean it/find stuff/try to act like it was functional. So, I sent it away. (My custodian swore I would be asking for it back.) I loved gaining all that space in my classroom for the 8 hours my students were in the room versus the 1 hour … [Read more...]
Center Saturday on Sunday
Here is a quick glimpse at the centers we completed this week. Math- Pot of Gold Math using double sided chip and old kettles. Writing- vowels at the end of a word practice. Reading- using my freebie eraser graphs. Phonics- long and short A sounds. Unit- US Symbol sort and Push and Pull sort. I am almost done with a fun new game to share. Don't forget to grab my FREEBIE Game What … [Read more...]
Grateful
Ever think know your pastor/ mother/ friend knows exactly what you need to hear... then tells it to you just before you need to hear it. I was at church yesterday and the message was being GRATEFUL instead of griping. I love my job... and I need to show how grateful I am for it. Sometimes being grateful means saying how grateful I am. I am grateful for all those cute, sweet, kind faces that … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Idea
This is a FUN idea to learn about nouns and adjectives in a FUN way. Take a themed sentence and write it on a sentence strip. Cut it apart. Add a few die cut shapes. Since I picked a March themed sentence, I chose to die cut circles for gold coins. I added the coin pieces in front of the nouns. I have my students add "sparkles" to make the nouns shine! We go noun by noun. We give each word … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
I love centers in Kindergarten and I love to share the ideas we do at centers. I use my centers to review skills and to play through the idea to learn. I am also able to assess skill mastery in centers since the students are competing tasks based on Performance Standards. Math- reviewing and measuring weight Writing numbers- we use this about once a month to review writing numbers … [Read more...]
