Are you going through any changes next year? Is anyone else leaving kindergarten for other jobs or grades? Too bad. Kindergarten rocks! It is the best grade ever. Just saying...
I am trying to finish up my report cards this weekend and I thought you might like seeing the assessment packet I created to come up with grades on a section of ELA.This seems fairly painless. As I c...
Collaborative Drawing Is Fun to DoI had my students pair up and create the characters and the various settings for The 3 Pigs. It was so interesting to walk around and listen to the various conversat...
I think every kindergarten teacher should do at least 3 fairy tales during the year with their students. Why? First, the kids absolutely adore hearing the various versions and you can easily compare ...
Okay so maybe I learned a lesson when it comes to creating a graph based on the whims of 5 year olds. Who knew what symbols they would want. This might seem a bit random but my students liked doing i...
I do not have all of these files at home but I will give all of these away as freebies since many people have asked for them. The book aligns to the bubble map and is really about the qualities of a ...
This is my favorite American symbol. I love talking about the qualities you need to become president of the United States. The children are fascinated by Obama and his family. They loved he...
When you come into my room duck and take cover. We have bald eagles everywhere. We have eagles made from our hand prints as well as drawings of eagles taught through guided lessons. We have hear...
This would be adorable as the front of a Mothers Day card too instead of a childs hand print. Hummm. Anyhow this clip art is from DJInkers and I am happy to give you a copy if thi...
My students have really enjoyed learning about our national bird. This is the map we made together and practiced reading. From this we have built sentences in a pocket chart. The final step is to use...
We have been learning about our national bird and my students are fascinated with the bald eagle. This was just a simple labeling activity to build their background of knowledge and from he...
Here is the packet so many of you asked me for. It has 45 pages of math and literacy work to supplement your Spring Theme. My kids loved all of it and I finally had a chance to put it together for Te...
I have my students practice reading the map filled with their words. Then we build it in a pocket chart which provides them with important practice with the language of the map. You can put all your ...
We do a huge unit on the symbols of our country and our students love learning about the American flag,the bald eagle, the president, etc. Here is a very simple tree map on the American flag. I love ...
I have been missing from Blogland this week because I applied for a district position and went through a series of tests and interviews. It was such a difficult week for me and now I am men...
Young children love riddles and this is a format that you should try if youve never used it.They also need to learn how to ask and answer questions.Often ELLs struggle with this skill so it needs to ...
Why is subtraction such a struggle in kindergarten. We act out stories over the year and try to provide lots of valid experiences with this but even so, I get some outrageous answers. I would not dar...
Kindergarten students love graphing and it is great to put them in teams to do this activity. I have them collect the data first, talk to their partner to check for accuracy, and then fill in their c...
How cute is this dictionary of words? I think my students will love having these to help them with their writing. I can just slide them into page protectors and make a few sets for them to share. The...
I wanted to post this again as a freebie for teachers who love this book as much as I do. Please check it out if you dont know this one. You will not be sorry. My kids liked this activity and had fun...
My kids LOVE these little folded books and I am giving them this little one on Monday. It is very simple and I am hoping they can fill it in with very little effort. It can even serve as a quick and ...
Have you read the book Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens? It is adorable and the best example of  ;inferential thinking at a kindergarten level that I know of. However, I needed to build...
I busted out these new centers today thinking that the kids needed to be eased back into the routine of school. Maybe I was the one that needed to take it slowly. They loved the containers and the ac...
How stinking cute is this Pete? Makda slammed this out for me and it made my day! I have never seen anyone as talented as this lady! I love lots of other clip art but when it comes to Pete Im loving ...
I decided to get to the restaurant a bit early and was greeted by these two gorgeous party planners. They just make me smile and I really love them. Hadar is on the left and yup, that is Kristin. The...
So you guessed it... another meet up with my BFFs from Blogland. Do not feel jealous. I will tell you all about it after Saturday. We are meeting ten minutes from my house and I am so jazz...
Who likes scrambled eggs? Well inside of these containers are scrambled letters. Students put them together on these mini mats to make words. Yes, I put a line under letters that they tend to rotate ...
I just finished this little mini center for addition, went to post it on Tpt and found out that the site is sick and needs some rest. It sounds like my problem. So if you want these for tomorro...
I am working on activities to go in these adorable containers but they are not holiday based. I cannot do that at the school I work at. These are just cute mini sized activities that can be held in t...
What do you use your leftover plastic eggs for once Easter is over? These can hold all kinds of interesting things and it just requires using some serious creativity. For a long time I was able ...
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