Today we are talking about sight words and how we teach them in our classrooms.
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Are you looking for interactive sight words worksheets?
Make the most of your student's sight word practice by providing this great multi-task workbook or worksheets. Students are asked to color the word, trace the word, write the word, find the word, and then create the word as a puzzle. There is even a backside that allows the sight word to be painted.
This packet contains worksheets for 112 sight words. Among these are the 100 most common words, Wonders Reading, and Journeys wordlists.
One of the goals of Phonics and Word Recognition is to help students build a bank of sight words. This packet contains seven activities that will do just that. All activities are strategically linked to the common core standards, highlighting RF.K.3c.
This set of worksheets contain 40 sight words. Your students will cute, glue write, and draw. Great sight word practice! Read common high-frequency words by sight.
These worksheets provide practice with the Wonders Kindergarten sight word list. This high frequency list includes 40 sight words. These sight word worksheets include multi-sensory techniques which involve reading, stamping, and writing. Two styles are included for differentiation opportunities.
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These worksheets provide practice with the "Journey's" kindergarten sight word list, which includes 40 sight words. The workpages include multi-sensory techniques which involve reading, stamping,, and writing. Two styles are included.
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NGSS Science Standards
Mar 31, 2021
NGSS Science Standards
Kindergarten Kiosk
Today we will talk about the Next Generation Science Standards and how you can teach them in your kindergarten class. We will also discuss how to incorporate engineering in kindergarten.
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This Insect thematic unit is strategically linked to academic core standards. It is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Studying insects has never been so much fun.
Literacy Activities:
Fly Away Fly: Letter Identification
Fly Away Words: Sight Word Recognition
Buggy Bug Match: Sight Word (or Alphabet) Match
Bug Rhymes: Matching Rhymes
Ladybug Spots: Recognizing Words in Speech.
Letters Buzzing In My Name: Recognizing/Writing Letters In Names
Strategically Linked to the common core, this best-selling Thematic plant unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading for cross-curricular learning.
The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your classroom or homeschool students begging for more.
Math Center Activities
Flowering Math: Joining Sets
Watermelon War: Comparing Numerals
Garden Party: Demonstrating Subtraction
Counting Seeds: Count out items to match a given number.
Planting Seeds: Making Combinations to 10
Adding Flowers
Garden Takeaway
Plant a Garden Ways to Make 8
Reading Center Activities:
Flower Garden: Reading Sight Word & CVC Word Sentences (or alphabet recognition).
Tip Toe Through the Tulips: Alphabet letter sound fluency (or sight word fluency)
Run Rabbit Run: Alphabet Letter Fluency
In the Garden: Naming Sight Words
Greenhouse Words: Reading Sight Words
Blooming Words: Isolating Phonemes & Writing CVC Words From Dictation
Each activity is clearly written, easy to use, and needs limited preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your students begging for more!
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Tips to Prepare For a Teacher Evaluation
Feb 04, 2021
Evaluations
Kindergarten Kiosk
Today we are joined by Dr. Scott Crane, a.k.a my Dad, who will give us his insights into what your administrator is looking for when they do evaluations.
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Subtraction: Teaching Part Whole Relationships
Dec 26, 2020
Subtraction
Kindergarten Kiosk
It’s that time of year when we start to think about how to tackle subtraction. We want to give you some guidance and tricks to make it easier to help your students grasp the concept and gain number sense.
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Help children succeed at Core Standard K.OA.A.5. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
Addition and Subtraction Fluency Worksheets
Are you looking for math worksheets that will save you time?
Do you want to confidently teach Core Standards?
Do you want to build addition and subtraction fluency with your students?
Are you looking for fun worksheets your students will enjoy?
These fluency based addition and subtraction worksheets will provide challenge for young mathematicians as they move to fluently add and subtract within 5. Set includes 10 addition worksheets and 10 subtraction worksheets.
Introduce, practice, and/or review subtraction concepts with this packet of worksheets.
The subtraction materials in this packet progress from worksheets that provide support for young mathematicians to worksheets that challenge students to independently solve problems.
Subtraction is a crucial math skill. It is important that students understand that subtraction involves taking away or pulling sets apart. As they grasp the underlying concept of subtraction, students can solve problems and begin to learn the subtraction facts. These worksheets will allow independent practice in counting objects, taking away, and identifying differences.
Subtraction is a crucial math skill. The materials in this packet progress from worksheets that provide support for young mathematicians to worksheets that challenge students to independently solve problems.
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Thematic Teaching
Dec 04, 2020
Thematic Teaching
Kindergarten Kiosk
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Thematic Units Bundle
42 Thematic Units at an Incredible Savings.
These engaging, fun, and developmentally appropriate thematic units will thrill students in your classroom or homeschool while saving you valuable time!
Reach core standards in fun and active ways as you use these delightful across the curriculum, engaging lessons and activities.
Increasing Student Engagement
Oct 29, 2020
Increasing Engagement
Kindergarten Kiosk
During this podcast we will discuss ways that we keep students engaged that you can use whether you are teaching online or in person.
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Thanksgiving Activities for every area of your curriculum.
The perfect cross-curricular Thanksgiving Theme Unit celebrating the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people that worked through conflicts to celebrate a day of thankfulness.
Are you looking for successful tried and tested activities that will thrill the students in your classroom or homeschool setting.
This Thanksgiving unit is strategically linked to Core Standards! It is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Literacy Activities:
Hop To It: Identifying Letters and Sounds
Hop To It: Reading CVC Words
Turkey Lurkey: Producing and Generating Rhymes.
Turkey Twist: Kinesthetic Practice With Letter Recognition
Dinner Rush: Naming & Generating Beginning Sounds
Thanksgiving Races: Developing Fluency
Rhyming Worksheet
Math Activities:
Turkey Guesses: Making Estimates
A Feast For All: Counting Objects to Show Physical Representation of Numbers
Thanksgiving Feast: Counting Forward From a Given Number in a Set of 10
The Turkey Dance: Identifying Numbers and Recording Results.
November and is a great month to celebrate family, friends, food and gratitude.
Using songs and finger plays throughout the school day not only makes for a happier environment, it increases reading and math skills, and has proven effect on classroom management!
These song posters include links to versions on Youtube.
Twelve Songs Are Included
America
Go My Son
Ho Ho Wotenay
Over The River
A Very Fine Turkey
Five Fat Turkeys
I Am Thankful
Funny Turkey
Let's Be Thankful
Turkey Dinner
Glad I'm Not a Turkey
Thanksgiving Cheer
All of our thematic units contain songs to bring joy into your classroom. A few units I love to use in November are:
September is a great month to introduce Cross-curricular thematic units such as apples, harvest, fall, and scarecrows. Join with us as we celebrate September teaching ideas.
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Teaching During a Pandemic! Ideas For The New Normal Possibilities!
Aug 19, 2020
Teaching During a Pandemic! Ideas For The New Normal Possibilities!
Kindergarten Kiosk
We know you are all dealing with a lot so we wanted to give you as many ideas and tools as we could come up with. Whether you are teaching in person, through a blended model, or online, we have ideas for you. Please let us know how things are going! Write to us at kindergartenkiosk@gmail.com and let us know your story.
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Preparing for the Unknown School Year Ahead
Jul 22, 2020
Preparing for the Fall
Kindergarten Kiosk
With the beginning of the school year coming up, we are starting to think about how to best address the needs of our students this year. In this podcast, we’ll discuss some of our ideas for how to make the best of things.
This parent involvement resource will help strengthen the school-home connection as students practice essential preschool skills.
These January toDecember packets consists of simple games and activities that are fun and easy for the parent and child to complete together, returning only a checklist if you choose. Extend the learning at home by sending home monthly homework packets that are strategically linked to the Common Core Standards. Your students and parents alike will love the easy to use formats, engaging activities, and ease of homework management.
Contents Include
This packet includes contains all 16 Packets in our
Kindergarten Series. And ALL 16 packets have two versions, English and Spanish Translation.
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Plus, three bonus packets: Fall Intervention Packet, Winter Intervention Packet, Spring Intervention Packet are included.
January
The Snowman: A book to read together
Snowy Lotto: An alphabet game
Winter Delivery: A sight word activity
Color Match Snowmen: A color word activity
A Winter Wonderland: A blending game
Snowflake Swirl: A counting on activity
Snowman Clock: A math activity
January Calendar: A number handwriting activity
February
"Little Valentine's" A book to read together
Heart Bingo: Flash Hearts--Sight word activities
Don't Break My Heart: A word segmenting game
My Valentine's: Using Valentines to extend learning
Dragon Dance: Alphabet Sound Fluency
Number Games: Math Activities
February Calendar: A number handwriting Activity
March
Guided Reader: Out In Space
Mr. Spaceman: Conventions of Print
Letter Blast Off: Alphabet Letter Sound Naming Automaticity
Race Through Space: Alphabet Letter Naming Automaticity
Skip Counting: Counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's
Alien Planet: Segmenting Words Into Individual Phonemes
Decode it-Defeat it: Reading CVC Words
Alien Snap: Counting From Any Given Number
April
The Pond: A Sight word/Decodable Reader
Slithering Snakes: Alphabet sound fluency
Frogger: A Decoding game
Turtle Lotto: A sight word game
Family of Ducks: Word families
April Calendar: Number writing
Frog Eggs: Composing numbers
Spring Basket: Plus and minus
May
The Jungle: A guided reader (available in two levels)
ROAR!: A decoding game
Safari Sights: A sight word game
The Jungle: A writing activity
Around the Zoo: A sentence game
At the Zoo: A comprehension activity
The Zoo Parade: An addition game
Gorillas in Cages: A subtraction game
June
Capture the Butterfly: A word family game
Mosquito Slap: A sight word game
Flower Garden: A sentence game
I Can Be a Scientist: A decodable book
Lilypad Leap: A number line game
Ladybug Addition: An addition activity
Dragonfly Subtraction: A subtraction activity
Across the Curriculum: A collection of fun learning activities
July
Guided Reader: The Beach (Level C)
Sand Castles: A sight word game
Summer Celebration: A sentence game
Diving for Letters: Alphabet recognition
Shell Addition: An addition activity
Beach Ball Subtraction: A subtraction activity
The Number Swim: Writing numbers
August
Rhyme Book: A mini book of rhymes
My ABC's: An alphabet activity
A Ride to the Park: A color recognition game
The Shape of Things: Shape recognition
Number Flashcards: Number recognition
Name Writing: A handwriting activity
All About ME: Community-building activity
September
The Game: A book to read together
Football Flashcards: A capital letter review
Kick Off ABC Game: An alphabet game
Name Cheer: Letter recognition
Football Rhymes: A rhyming game
The Team: A number game
Huddle Up: Number activity
October (Also includes Non-Halloween Option)
Haunted House: A syllable game
Boo to You: An alphabet game
Spider Race: An alphabet activity
Monster Cookies: A beginning sound activity
Dark Woods Math: A number game
No Tricks, Just Treats: A sort and graph activity
November
My Bear: A Guided Reading Book
Time to Hibernate: An Alphabet Game
Star Gazing: A Letter Sound Game
A Walk In the Woods: An Ending Sounds Game
Letter Trace: Handwriting Activity
Bear Math: Variety of Math Activities
Number Bears: A Flashcard Activity
December
Christmas Time: A Guided Reading Book
Christmas Tree ABC: An Alphabet Game
To the North Pole: A Rhyming Game
Christmas Sounds: A Phoneme Isolation Game
Sound Train: Alphabet Sound Fluency
Christmas Memory: A Number Game
Letter Cookies: A Handwriting Activity
Additional Bonus of Strategic Intervention Packets: Offer concrete help to parents as you build a bridge between school and home, by offering this Intervention Packet as a way for parents to extend the learning at home. These great family games will not only provide additional teaching opportunities for kindergarten skills, they will also give parents opportunity to become familiar with academic concepts and their child's academic strength and weaknesses first hand.
Screen your incoming kindergartners with confidence! Includes everything you need on one easy to use, double-sided sheet. Includes suggested scoring rubric to help with class placement and interventions.
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Emotional Resilience: An Interview with Dr. Susan Linn
Apr 28, 2020
Teaching Kindergarten Online
Mar 20, 2020
So Now You Are A Distance Teacher...
Kindergarten Kiosk
We've suddenly become online kindergarten teachers and things are stressful. We wanted to check in with you and see how things are going with you. Please email us at kindergartenkiosk@gmail.com if we can do anything to support you during this time.
This parent involvement resource will help strengthen the school-home connection as students practice essential preschool skills.
These January toDecember packets consists of simple games and activities that are fun and easy for the parent and child to complete together, returning only a checklist if you choose. Extend the learning at home by sending home monthly homework packets that are strategically linked to the Common Core Standards. Your students and parents alike will love the easy to use formats, engaging activities, and ease of homework management.
Contents Include
This packet includes contains all 16 Packets in our
Kindergarten Series. And ALL 16 packets have two versions, English and Spanish Translation.
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Plus, three bonus packets: Fall Intervention Packet, Winter Intervention Packet, Spring Intervention Packet are included.
January
The Snowman: A book to read together
Snowy Lotto: An alphabet game
Winter Delivery: A sight word activity
Color Match Snowmen: A color word activity
A Winter Wonderland: A blending game
Snowflake Swirl: A counting on activity
Snowman Clock: A math activity
January Calendar: A number handwriting activity
February
"Little Valentine's" A book to read together
Heart Bingo: Flash Hearts--Sight word activities
Don't Break My Heart: A word segmenting game
My Valentine's: Using Valentines to extend learning
Dragon Dance: Alphabet Sound Fluency
Number Games: Math Activities
February Calendar: A number handwriting Activity
March
Guided Reader: Out In Space
Mr. Spaceman: Conventions of Print
Letter Blast Off: Alphabet Letter Sound Naming Automaticity
Race Through Space: Alphabet Letter Naming Automaticity
Skip Counting: Counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's
Alien Planet: Segmenting Words Into Individual Phonemes
Decode it-Defeat it: Reading CVC Words
Alien Snap: Counting From Any Given Number
April
The Pond: A Sight word/Decodable Reader
Slithering Snakes: Alphabet sound fluency
Frogger: A Decoding game
Turtle Lotto: A sight word game
Family of Ducks: Word families
April Calendar: Number writing
Frog Eggs: Composing numbers
Spring Basket: Plus and minus
May
The Jungle: A guided reader (available in two levels)
ROAR!: A decoding game
Safari Sights: A sight word game
The Jungle: A writing activity
Around the Zoo: A sentence game
At the Zoo: A comprehension activity
The Zoo Parade: An addition game
Gorillas in Cages: A subtraction game
June
Capture the Butterfly: A word family game
Mosquito Slap: A sight word game
Flower Garden: A sentence game
I Can Be a Scientist: A decodable book
Lilypad Leap: A number line game
Ladybug Addition: An addition activity
Dragonfly Subtraction: A subtraction activity
Across the Curriculum: A collection of fun learning activities
July
Guided Reader: The Beach (Level C)
Sand Castles: A sight word game
Summer Celebration: A sentence game
Diving for Letters: Alphabet recognition
Shell Addition: An addition activity
Beach Ball Subtraction: A subtraction activity
The Number Swim: Writing numbers
August
Rhyme Book: A mini book of rhymes
My ABC's: An alphabet activity
A Ride to the Park: A color recognition game
The Shape of Things: Shape recognition
Number Flashcards: Number recognition
Name Writing: A handwriting activity
All About ME: Community-building activity
September
The Game: A book to read together
Football Flashcards: A capital letter review
Kick Off ABC Game: An alphabet game
Name Cheer: Letter recognition
Football Rhymes: A rhyming game
The Team: A number game
Huddle Up: Number activity
October (Also includes Non-Halloween Option)
Haunted House: A syllable game
Boo to You: An alphabet game
Spider Race: An alphabet activity
Monster Cookies: A beginning sound activity
Dark Woods Math: A number game
No Tricks, Just Treats: A sort and graph activity
November
My Bear: A Guided Reading Book
Time to Hibernate: An Alphabet Game
Star Gazing: A Letter Sound Game
A Walk In the Woods: An Ending Sounds Game
Letter Trace: Handwriting Activity
Bear Math: Variety of Math Activities
Number Bears: A Flashcard Activity
December
Christmas Time: A Guided Reading Book
Christmas Tree ABC: An Alphabet Game
To the North Pole: A Rhyming Game
Christmas Sounds: A Phoneme Isolation Game
Sound Train: Alphabet Sound Fluency
Christmas Memory: A Number Game
Letter Cookies: A Handwriting Activity
Additional Bonus of Strategic Intervention Packets: Offer concrete help to parents as you build a bridge between school and home, by offering this Intervention Packet as a way for parents to extend the learning at home. These great family games will not only provide additional teaching opportunities for kindergarten skills, they will also give parents opportunity to become familiar with academic concepts and their child's academic strength and weaknesses first hand.
127 Guided Readers For Emergent Readers. Check out one being read here: https://www.kindergartenkiosk.com/guided-reading/2/19/ell-kindergarten-reader You will love these engaging guided readers that bridge the gap from non-reader to reader. These books can be copied, and then offered for guided reading practice. Students can participate in tracking, phonics practice, decoding, picture clues, and other important reading strategies right on their own copy! Offering students a paper book that can be read, colored, and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. This in turn offers parents important opportunities to be part of classroom reading instruction. Students love these delightful stories that are ready to read, on an emergent level. The clip art is delightful! These sets may be purchased separately for $4.00 a set. Or, you may purchase this entire bundle for $50.00, a great savings of $34.00. That is $.25 a book! Apple & Pumpkin Themed Emergent Guided Readers Apples The Pumpkin Cycle Pumpkin Colors Pumpkin Patch Apple Picking Time Back To School Themed Emergent Guided Readers The School School Rules (A Read Together Book) All About Me My Classroom Friends Names Bear Themed Emergent Guided Readers My Teddy Bear The Brown Bear Little Bear and Friends Bear Facts Color Bears The Three Bears Christmas Themed Emergent Guided Readers Merry Christmas Presents From Santa The North Pole Run Gingerbread Man Run! The Christmas Train Color Themed Emergent Guided Readers Blue (Color) Blue (Black & White) Green (Color) Green (Black & White) Orange (Color) Orange (Black & White) Purple (Color) Purple (Black & White) Red (Color) Red (Black & White) Yellow (Color) Yellow (Black & White) Dinosaur Themed Emergent Guided Readers Dinosaurs -- Level A All About Dinosaurs -- Level C Dig A Dinosaur -- Level C The Little Dinosaur -- Level B The Paleontologist -- Level B Fable Themed Emergent Guided Readers The Little Pigs The Little Goats Jack and the Beanstalk The Little Red Hen Fall Themed Emergent Guided Readers 1. Falling Leaves 2. The Autumn Leaves 3. Autumn Colors of Fall Farm Themed Emergent Guided Readers The Farmer in the Dell -- Level A The Sky is Falling -- Level CC The Watermelon -- Level C The Farmer -- Level C Where are the Animals -- Level B February Themed Emergent Guided Readers Little Hearts -- Level B I Love -- Level C My Valentine -- Level C Brushing Teeth -- Level C Groundhog Day -- Level B The Days of School -- Level C President's Day -- Level B Halloween Themed Emergent Guided Readers Halloween Night Little Witch The Chocolate Chip Ghost Trick or Treat My Halloween Costume Pat the Bat May Themed Emergent Guided Readers What I Can Do Now My School My Friends Summer Vacation Ocean Themed Emergent Guided Readers At The Beach - Level B The Ocean - Level B The Ocean - Level A The Sea - Level C Diving in the Sea - Level C Willy The Whale - Level C Picture Book Themed Guided Readers The Big Red Dog Little Caterpillar Goodnight At The Zoo This Little Piggy The Brown Bear Five Little Monkeys Pirate Themed Emergent Guided Readers I Like Pirates-- Level C X Marks The Spot-- Level E The Pirates -- Level C The Treasure -- Level D Sight Word Themed Emergent Guided Readers: Volume 1 I Have Jobs Going to School Not! It Is For I Know Sight Word Themed Emergent Guided Readers: Volume 2 The Pet Show Dad On Look! I Said We Can Space Themed Emergent Guided Readers The Stars -- Level D My Rocketship -- Level C Space Explorer -- Level B Rockets -- Level C The Aliens -- Level B Spring Themed Emergent Guided Readers The Lamb and the Lion Welcome Spring The Cat’s Hat St. Patrick’s Day The Little Seed The Bunnies Winter Themed Emergent Guided Readers: Set #1 Happy New Year How To Build a Snowman My Snowmobile Cocoa Ice Skating Winter Themed Emergent Guided Readers: Set #2 Winter Winter Snow The Mitten The Mitten ⭐ Alphabet Zoo Games: For Early Readers ⭐ Apple & Pumpkin Themed Sight Word Readers ⭐ Apple Experiment Guided Reader ⭐ Back To School Sight Word Readers ⭐ Bear Themed Sight Word Readers ⭐ Christmas Guided Readers ⭐ Color Themed Emergent Guided Readers ⭐ Dinosaur Themed Sight Word Readers ⭐ Fall Themed Emergent Sight Word Readers ⭐ Farm Themed Sight Word Readers ⭐ February Themed Guided Readers ⭐ Halloween Emergent Guided Readers ⭐ Henry Penny: Reader's Theater or Partner Play ⭐ Jack and The Beanstalk: Reader's Theater or Partner Play ⭐ Little Red Hen: Reader's Theater or Partner Play ⭐ Little Red Riding Hood: Reader's Theater or Partner Play ⭐ May Themed Guided Readers ⭐ Ocean Themed Sight Word Readers ⭐ Picture Book Themed Guided Readers ⭐ Pirate Themed Sight Word Readers ⭐ Reader's Theater or Partner Play: Folk Tale Bundle ⭐ Reading Strategies Charts: Building Effective Readers ⭐ Sight Word Readers Volume 1 ⭐ Sight Word Readers Volume 2 ⭐ Space Themed Sight Word Readers ⭐ Spring Themed Guided Readers ⭐ The Shoemaker and the Elves Readers' Theater For Early Readers ⭐ The Wizard of Oz Musical or Reader's Theater ⭐ Three Billy Goats: Reader's Theater or Partner Play ⭐ Three Little Pigs: Reader's Theater or Partner Play ⭐ Winter Guided Readers: Set #1 ⭐ Winter Guided Readers: Set #2
March! This is one of my favorite months of the year! In this episode, Kathy and Lyndsey talk about bringing engaging content into your March classroom.
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February Planning Ideas and Songs
Feb 05, 2020
Feburary Songs and Ideas
Kindergarten Kiosk
In this episode, Kathy talks about the month of February and some planning ideas that will keep your class fun and engaging all month long! You will want to check out our February planning ideas here:
Here are some companion links that will bring engagement into your February curriculum.
January Planning Ideas and Songs
Jan 09, 2020
In this episode we talk about some fun activities to do in your classroom during the month of January. We sing a few winter songs too! You may want to check out our January Curriculum planner here.
January Planning Ideas
Kindergarten Kiosk
Here are the links to products, posts, and more that we mention in the podcast.
December Planning Ideas and Songs
Nov 23, 2019
December Ideas
Kindergarten Kiosk
In this podcast episode we share some of our favorite activities, songs, and tips for the month of December. Hopefully this episode will help you enjoy your teaching from now to the beginning of winter break!
We give suggestions on how to enjoy Christmas themes, build cultural awareness, or learn about elves and reindeer without the holiday slant. For example, using the book “The Elves and the Shoemaker” is a great way to study “elves” in a different way. My class loved when we drew a tiny picture of ourselves by our life-size shoe in our art class.
We talk about gingerbread play dough that will last all month if you store it in a tight container… And much much more such as Christmas Around The World, a visit to the North Pole to learn about Santa and his elves, and the Reindeer Hokey Pokey!
Also, don’t forget to visit Nancy Stewart and see for yourself why we love using her songs in our classroom! And if you love to use music in the classroom, don’t forget to grab your song and finger play posters for December.
It is packed with 15 of our favorite December songs, many which we sing on this podcast.
Christmas and More Songs and Fingerplays for December
December is a great month to celebrate Christmas, lights, trees, gingerbread men, reindeer, lights and of course Santa.
Using songs and fingerplays throughout the school day not only makes for a happier environment, it increases reading and math skills, and has proven effect on classroom management! Litter your classroom with song and fingerplay posters, sing at the carpet, at transition time, as part of the curriculum, and well, anytime you fill like adding some extra happy to your day. Your students will also love singing during reading independent and free-choice times. They are also perfect for poetry studies and binders! * Be sure to find our podcast on iTunes or on our Blog using these songs.
Fifteen Songs Are Included (With YouTube examples)
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Are you looking for thematic way to teach academic skills? You will love this Gingerbread Man Thematic Unit, and it will thrill the students in your classroom or homeschool setting. Everything is successfully classroom tested.
This Gingerbread Man unit is strategically linked to core standards. It is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, social studies, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
The first page of the unit is a planning sheet. This page shows everything that is available to you within the unit, divided into categories. There is also space provided to make notes and add activities to personalize the unit to fit your own needs!
Table of Contents:
Shared Reading Activities:
Gingerbread Man Retelling Activity
Gingerbread Man Story Element Study
Gingerbread Man: Five day Poetry Study Lesson Plans
Literacy Activities:
Beware the Fox: Blending Phonemes Into CVC Words
Run Run As Fast As You Can: Printing, Identifying & Matching Uppercase letters.
A Village of Sounds: Identifying Final Sounds
Gingerbread Man Match: Identifying Color Words
Independent Literacy Activities
Colored Ginger
Gingerbread Get Away
Math Activities:
Gingerbread Hide & Seek: Ordering Numbers Using Concept of Greater Than/Less Than
Across The River: Identifying Two-Dimensional Shapes
Gingerbread Man Escape: Naming The Numbers 0-20 Fluently
Gingerbread Land: Naming and Matching Numbers 11-20
Independent Math Activities:
The Cookie Jar: Counting Quantities & Making One Greater
Gingerbread Man & Friends: Number Quantity & Writing Numerals
This Christmas Express Train unit is strategically linked to the common core standards. It divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, worksheets, science, kitchen, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Level 1 is for Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms. For Advanced Kindergarten, First Grade, or Special Education Support, you will like level 2.
These Christmas Train activities are classroom tested, fun, and gives students a break from typical worksheets.
Contents Include:
Literacy Activities:
Word Train: Decoding Real and Nonsense Words
Christmas Train: Reviewing Early Reading Skills
Jingle All The Way: Identifying Digraphs and Blends
Cocoa Cocoa: Segmenting Words
Train Syllables: Comparing Syllables to Vowel Sounds
Santa’s Bag: Identifying Vowel Sounds
Math Activities:
Santa Express: Using subtraction to compare numbers
Break The Train: Finding The Pattern Within a Pattern
Pajama Wars: Decomposing Numbers Less Than Ten
North Pole Candy Store: Using the Equal Sign
The Cookie Store: Represent Numbers with Tens and Ones
Number Choo Choo: Find the Missing Addend
Science
North Pole Facts: Factual Content
Jingle Jangle: Drawing Conclusions
North Pole Putty: Mixing Ingredients to Make A New Element
This Elf Themed Unit can be used at Christmas Time or as a unit to enhance the traditional tale, "The Elves and the Shoemaker." Your classroom or homeschool students will love this Elf Adventure!
Activities Include:
Shared Reading Activities:
The Elves and The Shoemaker: Retelling Story and Story Cards, Thinking Map, Story Element Page, Venn Diagram
The Little Elves Poem: Five Day Activity Plan
Literacy Lessons:
Back to the Pole: Blending and Segmenting
The Elf Dance: Alphabet Fluency or High Frequency Word Fluency
Santa’s List: Reading Nonsense Words or Naming Sounds
Elf Inventory: Writing Letters for Sounds or Spelling Words
Independent Activities:
Elf Hunt: Finding Letters in Alphabetical Order
My Little Alphabet Book: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters
Math Lessons:
Elf Convention: Counting Forward From Numbers Other Than One.
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency is a crucial phonemic awareness skill that prepares your student to decode CVC words.
Your children will love helping Santa get dressed so he can make his Christmas deliveries! This game includes a scripted lesson, over 100 cards that are perfect for segmenting practice, a Santa game mat, and Old Santa's sleigh to hold the collected gifts.
Call them what you will, Readers’ Theater, Partner Plays, or simply, what it is, reading for fluency and comprehension. When you add sound effects (Foley effects) and Leitmotifs (simple melodies) to a script it becomes and Orchestrated Script! No matter the name or the purpose, young children love to read, practice, rehearse and perform!
This North Pole thematic unit is classroom tested, aligned to core standards, and packed with great activities. It is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, social studies, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Contents include a planning Guide and tips for unit use and the following activities!
Literacy Activities:
Present Rhyming: Producing Rhyming Words
Baking With Mrs. Claus: Increasing Alphabet Letter Naming Fluency
Baking Cookies: Sight Words
Ornament Crackdown: Fluently Naming Alphabet Letter Sounds
Park a Reindeer: Distinguishing between similarly spelled words
Santa's Bag: Matching Beginning Sounds
Math Activities:
Buying Ornaments: Counting Pennies to Equal a Given Amount
The Elf Challenge: Comparing Numbers
Reindeer Games: Ordering In An Ordinal Sequence
Present Panic: Fluently Naming Numbers 1-20
North Pole Number Hunt: Writing Numerals Matching Quantities
Also available at Teachers Pay Teachers!Bring guided reading to a new level by using "Partner Plays" also called "Reader's Theater." These books have simple, adorable scripts, that will increase student's ability to read with expression and fluency. Perfect for your emerging readers!
Set includes chair covers or headband art for character costumes.
Reach Common Core Early Reading Objectives the fun way by playing the game, Elf Dance. As with our other lessons, this lesson is scripted for easy delivery and confidence that objectives are being met. A worksheet follows the game to allow for independent practice with letter fluency. Enjoy our new free product, we know your students will!
Christmas Themed Guided Readers to Read and Color!
Offering students a "paper" book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Students love these delightful stories that are ready to read on their level. The clip art is delightful!
Looking for some tips on how to get more organized? This is the podcast for you! Mom will give you lots of tips for getting organized and staying organized (not me though, I’m still a big ‘ol mess). We hope that you’ll come away with lots of ideas that can revitalize your teaching!
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November Songs and Ideas
Oct 31, 2019
November Songs and Ideas
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This month we want to share some of our favorite songs and activities for the month of November to help you get inspired and excited for your next month of teaching!
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The book “The Family” is a great example of a paper book that awards opportunity to provide strategic practice with text. To make this book, simply copy pages 1 and 2, 3 and 4 on the back of each other, cut in half and collate. Copy page 8 and cut in half to make the last page of the book and a blank outside cover.
November and is a great month to celebrate family, friends, food and gratitude.
Using songs and finger plays throughout the school day not only makes for a happier environment, it increases reading and math skills, and has proven effect on classroom management!
These song posters include links to versions on Youtube.
Twelve Songs Are Included
America
Go My Son
Ho Ho Wotenay
Over The River
A Very Fine Turkey
Five Fat Turkeys
I Am Thankful
Funny Turkey
Let's Be Thankful
Turkey Dinner
Glad I'm Not a Turkey
Thanksgiving Cheer
All of our thematic units contain songs to bring joy into your classroom. A few units I love to use in November are:
Help young children become writers by having a writing center that is filled with learning activities that are easy to set-up and change! Both you and your students will love the predictability of these writing center activities.
The Three Bears Thematic Unit will thrill the students in your classroom or homeschool setting.
Who doesn't love The Three Bears! This thematic unit includes fun and engaging time-tested activities. Most are linked strategically to academic Core Standards.
Contents include:
Shared Reading Lessons
Three Brown Bears: Analyzing Directionality and Word Spelling
Story Element Cards: Analyzing Key Details
Literacy Activities:
A Bowl of Porridge: Naming Letters (Alternate: Decoding Words)
Rhyming Friends: Matching Rhymes
Goldie Comes to Visit: Blending Phonemes into Words
Bear School: Speaking Complete Sentences
Math Activities:
Bear Play: Decomposing Numbers less than 10
Porridge Yum Plus One: Adding one to create a sum that is one larger
Race in the Woods: Comparing Numbers
Sweet Baby Bear: Counting Forward
Three Bear Number Hunt: Writing Numerals to match quantity.
Goldilocks Goes to School: Identifying quantity using Ten-Frames and writing numerals
This family thematic unit is a collection of themed activities that will connect all facets of the Kindergarten, Pre-K, or Homeschool curriculum to family life. All activities are connected to Core Academic standards.
Contents Include:
Literacy Games/Activities:
Family Vacation: Segmenting Words
The Family Reunion: Producing and Generating Rhyming Words
Family Camping: Identifying Upper and Lowercase Alphabet Letters or Naming Letter Sounds
Family Camping: Identifying Sight Words
Animal Families: Fluently Naming Upper and Lowercase Alphabet Letters or Naming Letter Sounds
Animal Families: Fluently Naming Sight Words
Math Games/Activities:
Birth Order: Gathering, Sorting, and Interpreting Data
Thanksgiving Activities for every area of your curriculum.
The perfect cross-curricular Thanksgiving Theme Unit celebrating the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people that worked through conflicts to celebrate a day of thankfulness.
Are you looking for successful tried and tested activities that will thrill the students in your classroom or homeschool setting.
This Thanksgiving unit is strategically linked to Core Standards! It is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Literacy Activities:
Hop To It: Identifying Letters and Sounds
Hop To It: Reading CVC Words
Turkey Lurkey: Producing and Generating Rhymes.
Turkey Twist: Kinesthetic Practice With Letter Recognition
Dinner Rush: Naming & Generating Beginning Sounds
Thanksgiving Races: Developing Fluency
Rhyming Worksheet
Math Activities:
Turkey Guesses: Making Estimates
A Feast For All: Counting Objects to Show Physical Representation of Numbers
Thanksgiving Feast: Counting Forward From a Given Number in a Set of 10
The Turkey Dance: Identifying Numbers and Recording Results.
Use these November Themed Alphabet and/or * Sight Word Cards for the Following Activities:
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Construct Art: Putting Pieces Together To Make A Whole
Oct 05, 2019
Construct Art
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A witch construct art project.
Examples of the fire truck art that we mention in the podcast.
During today’s podcast, we’ll talk about one of Mom’s favorite art activities: Construct art! This art method teaches important math skills while scaffolding art skills, and developing your student’s fine motor skills!
Every thematic unit we have has a construct art project (or two) included. Here is the page from our Community Helper Unit that shows you how to help your students make the fire truck we talked about in the podcast. After listening to the podcast, you should be able to make your own construct art projects!
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This Fireman and Other Community Helpers Thematic Unit, reaches across the curriculum to meet the common core standards! It is divided into areas of literature/media, music, art, literacy, math and science activities, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading.
The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Ding Ding, Let the Firemen in!
Unit Includes the Following:
Literacy Activities:
ABC Firemen: Letter Identification
Race Up the Ladder: Identifying Syllables
Help The Helpers: Beginning Sounds
Fireman Fluency Flash: Beginning Fluency
Math Activities:
Fireman Number Race: Matching Numerals to Quantity 1-6
his NEWLY UPDATED SPOOKY Halloween unit is divided into areas of literature/media, music, art, literacy, math and science activities, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Bring some Spooky Fun into your classroom or home!
Unit Includes the Following:
Literacy Activities:
Pumpkin Smasher: Identifying Initial Sound
Mystery Letter: Identifying letters
Pumpkin Bingo: Identifying Letters
Trick or Treat: Using Onset/rime.
Independent Activities
Ghostwriter: Writing Uppercase Letters
Fall Into the ABC’s: Tracing & Writing Uppercase Letters
Halloween Sounds: Matching Sounds
Math Activities:
Monster Math-Mash : Identifying More or Less
Candy Count: Building Equivalent Sets of Numbers
Missing Pumpkins: Ordering Numbers
Candy Match: Matching Quantity to Number
Independent Activities
Halloween Buddies: Number Recognition
The Great Pumpkin: Matching Numbers & Quantity
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
My Costume
Halloween
Halloween Word Wall Words
Guided Reading Books
Trick or Treat
Class Made Books
Trick or Treat
Science
Witch Stew: Making Conclusions Based on Observations and Experiences
Monster Slime: Following Directions to Complete an Experiment
This North Pole thematic unit is classroom tested, aligned to core standards, and packed with great activities. It is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, social studies, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Contents include a planning Guide and tips for unit use and the following activities!
Literacy Activities:
Present Rhyming: Producing Rhyming Words
Baking With Mrs. Claus: Increasing Alphabet Letter Naming Fluency
Baking Cookies: Sight Words
Ornament Crackdown: Fluently Naming Alphabet Letter Sounds
Park a Reindeer: Distinguishing between similarly spelled words
Santa's Bag: Matching Beginning Sounds
Math Activities:
Buying Ornaments: Counting Pennies to Equal a Given Amount
The Elf Challenge: Comparing Numbers
Reindeer Games: Ordering In An Ordinal Sequence
Present Panic: Fluently Naming Numbers 1-20
North Pole Number Hunt: Writing Numerals Matching Quantities
Help young children become writers by having a writing center that is filled with learning activities that are easy to set-up and change! Both you and your students will love the predictability of these writing center activities.
Are you looking for the perfect Thematic Unit that relates to China and the Chinese culture? This unit will allow the students in your classroom or homeschool setting to learn more about China and Chinese New Year in a fun way.
This Chinese New Year unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
The Contents:
Literacy Activities
Karate School-Kicking Vowels: Vowels
Chinese Blossom Festival: Demonstrating Graphophonemic Knowledge of Alphabet Letters
Beware The Chinese Dragon: Replacing Initial Consonants
The Lantern Race: Naming Alphabet Letter Sounds Fluently
The Lantern Race: Naming Sight Words Fluently
Lantern Walk: Writing Letters
Lantern Letters: Writing Lowercase Letters
Middle Sounds: Identifying Middle Sounds in Words
Math Activities
Dragon Squeeze: Identify a Given Number by Using Greater Than and Less Than
Building Teen Number: Building Numbers Using Tens and Ones
Light The Lanterns: Comparing Numerals to 20
The Missing Dragons: Ordering Numbers 0-20
Dragon Squeeze
China Number Hunt: Write the Room Math Journal Activity
This Elf Themed Unit can be used at Christmas Time or as a unit to enhance the traditional tale, "The Elves and the Shoemaker." Your classroom or homeschool students will love this Elf Adventure!
Activities Include:
Shared Reading Activities:
The Elves and The Shoemaker: Retelling Story and Story Cards, Thinking Map, Story Element Page, Venn Diagram
The Little Elves Poem: Five Day Activity Plan
Literacy Lessons:
Back to the Pole: Blending and Segmenting
The Elf Dance: Alphabet Fluency or High Frequency Word Fluency
Santa’s List: Reading Nonsense Words or Naming Sounds
Elf Inventory: Writing Letters for Sounds or Spelling Words
Independent Activities:
Elf Hunt: Finding Letters in Alphabetical Order
My Little Alphabet Book: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters
Math Lessons:
Elf Convention: Counting Forward From Numbers Other Than One.
Elf Roll Call: Adding a Number to Make Ten
The Elves’ Tree: Matching Quantity to Numbers
Independent Activities:
Find the Elves: Writing Numbers
The Elf Friends: Comparing Written Numerals
Packing Presents: Ways to Make 10
Social Studies
The Elf Door Activities
Guided Reading Books
The Little Elves
ElfWriting
I Can:
Write A Story
Make A Card
Write A List
Write A Letter
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Handwriting
Sep 23, 2019
Handwriting
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Today we will be discussing how to help your students develop handwriting skills that will help them become proficient writers.
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If you love Handwriting and no Tears, you will love this Uppercase Letter Formation product! There are two versions. The one page version, using a single sheet per letter, and a 1 1/2 page version that may be easier for little hands to manipulate. Both are included so the choice is yours.
Appropriate handwriting practice is especially important when it comes to the teaching of letter formation. These worksheets will fill that bill. Each worksheet is interactive and is completed in five steps.
1. Student cuts along dotted line.
2. Student cuts out sticks and curves.
3. Student glues the white pieces on the black letter.
4. Student traces and then writes the letter practicing the stick and curves.
5. To complete the page, the student can color the pictures that begins with the letter sound.
Developmentally appropriate practices are especially important when it comes to the teaching of letter formation. These worksheets will fill that bill. Each worksheet is interactive and is completed in five steps. 1. Student cuts along dotted line. 2. Student cuts out sticks and curves. 3. Student glues the white pieces on the black letter. 4. Student traces and then writes the letter practicing the stick and curves. 5. To complete the page, the student can color the pictures that begins with the letter sound.
Build your child’s (students') fine motor skills as well as develop confidence by using these fine motor activities. Each category begins with novice activities and then moves forward in complexity; aiding development.
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Making a Schedule
Aug 01, 2019
Making a Schedule
Kindergarten Kiosk
The beginning of the school year is upon us, and, if you are like us, you are hard at work making your daily schedule. It can be a daunting task sometimes, so in this podcast, we’ll give you some ideas for how to make your day work for you!
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Providing Reading Interventions That Support All Students
Jul 11, 2019
Reading Interventions That Support All Students
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Today our podcast will be a little different. We’ll be sharing with you a recording of a video presentation Kathy made for ESGI. In this presentation, you’ll learn some great strategies for effective intervention in your classroom, or tips on how to group your students for ELA centers.
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The Best Things About Kindergarten
Jul 07, 2019
The Best Things About Kindergarten
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In our opinion, Kindergarten is the very best grade you could ever hope to teach! In this podcast episode, we’ll tell you why! Find us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and let us know your favorite things about teaching Kindergarten!
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Tips For New Teachers: Interview with Vanessa Levin
Apr 05, 2019
Tips For New Teachers: Interview With Vanessa Levin
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This is going to be a great podcast interview for our listeners who are new teachers or new to kindergarten. Vanessa provides you with some great ideas and tips for making your first years stress free!
Vanessa Levin is a Pre-K teacher with more than 20 years of classroom teaching experience. She is committed to helping teachers teach better, save time, and live more by providing them with everything they need to create a fun and engaging learning environment, lesson plans, and activities for their little learners. As an early childhood trainer, she has spoken to thousands of teachers in person at popular early childhood conferences such as Frog Street Splash, I Teach K! and NAEYC. She was honored to receive the 2012 CCAEYC Trainer of the Year Award. Her work has been featured in Scholastic Teacher magazine and on popular websites like BuzzFeed. You can learn more about Vanessa by visiting her website PreK Pages.
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Independant Work
Mar 07, 2019
Independent Work
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Have you ever wondered what to do with all of the other students when you are doing small group work? Never fear! We have some ideas for you to get your students working independently!
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Building a bank of sight words with early readers allow students to become better readers! Introducing those words in a variety of ways will help meet the needs of a diverse class of learners. These fun, varied, games will be a hit in your classroom. These games focus on the first 200 Fry sight words as well as sight word phrases. They are easily differentiated to meet the needs of your group.
Strategically Linked to the common core, this best-selling Thematic plant unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading for cross-curricular learning.
The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your classroom or homeschool students begging for more.
Math Center Activities
Flowering Math: Joining Sets
Watermelon War: Comparing Numerals
Garden Party: Demonstrating Subtraction
Counting Seeds: Count out items to match a given number.
Planting Seeds: Making Combinations to 10
Adding Flowers
Garden Takeaway
Plant a Garden Ways to Make 8
Reading Center Activities:
Flower Garden: Reading Sight Word & CVC Word Sentences (or alphabet recognition).
Tip Toe Through the Tulips: Alphabet letter sound fluency (or sight word fluency)
Run Rabbit Run: Alphabet Letter Fluency
In the Garden: Naming Sight Words
Greenhouse Words: Reading Sight Words
Blooming Words: Isolating Phonemes & Writing CVC Words From Dictation
Each activity is clearly written, easy to use, and needs limited preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your students begging for more!
Spice up your student's learning with these great pirate themed sight word and decodable books! And they are differentiated!
Pirate theme books make learning to read fun and engaging! Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Plus your kiddos will love them!
Do you feel like you can’t cover everything in the classroom? Maybe you are trying to cover too much? In today’s episode we will discuss our “less is more” approach to classroom teaching that helps us to focus on what’s most important for student learning. We hope it helps you too!
This set of books is specifically designed to use with the Wonders reading curriculum, or for anyone looking for great sight word readers that follow a logical sequence of sight word introduction, and the practice of decoding words made only from letters as they are introduced.
Includes words from Units 1-5: I, can, the we, see, a, like, to, and, go, you, do, my, are, with, he. Then Continues with the words as ordered in Units 6-10: with, is, little, she, was for, have, of, they, said, want, here, me, this, what, help, too, has, play, look, where, good, who come, does.
The letter order for Units 1-5 are: m, a, s, p, t, i, c, n, d, i, o, h, e, f, r. This set continues with those letters and then the remaining letters as introduced in Units 6-10.
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Linguistic Basics
Jan 18, 2019
The Basics of Linguistics
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Today we will discuss how linguistics (the study of language) relates to teaching reading and how knowing more about phonemes, graphemes, and morphemes can improve your teaching.
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Making Music Magic In The Classroom
Nov 29, 2018
Making Music Magic In The Classroom
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Today we are going to talk about the power of using music in your classroom. There are four artistic processes that students can engage in during a lesson. They are:
Respond
Perform
Connect
Create
During Level One lessons students are engaged in responding to or performing music, during a Level Two lesson students are responding to or performing music as connected to academic content. A Level Three lesson engages students in academic content as well as musical content, and Level Four lesson involves students in the creative process as they experience all four artistic processes.
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Learning Names of Self and Others
Sep 23, 2018
Learning Names of Self and Others
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Hello Listeners! In this week’s podcast, we’ll be discussing some ways that you can teach your students their own names and the names of their classroom friends!
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Speaking of making your life easier, below are two of our popular name writing units! You will LOVE them!
Names Practice Back To School Write Names of Self and Others
Time for back to school and teaching students how to write their own names and the names of classmates and others.
Children who are in the early stages of literacy development are well served if they are familiarized with the letters that make up their own name. This will not only provide an important link between speech and print, it will help them attend to sequencing, orientation and details within the construction of a word.
The lessons of this unit will draw attention to and provide practice with writing and reading their own names and expanding the benefits gained to include the names of classmates.
Table of Contents:
Water Cap Names: Ordering letters in names and transferring knowledge.
Name Puzzles: Building familiarity with alphabet letters and their function when spelling one's own name.
Name Cheer: (A variation of Name Puzzles): Identifying and sequencing the letters in names.
Shave a Name: Using correct handwriting technique to write names.
Rainbow Names: Spelling and writing names.
The "Nameapillar": Ordering letters in names.
Trace A Name: Tracing names using correct letter formation.
Name Fishing: Reading the names of classmates, then sorting according to beginning capital letter.
Name Dictionary: Alphabetizing classmates' names.
Names: A Guided Reading Book
Name Fun: Ten Additional Name Conquering Ideas
Name Game: Studying names of classmates
Name Chart: Studying names in a Morning Meeting routine
Mosaic Names: Spelling and writing names
Name Necklace: Spelling name
Spell-a-Name: Spelling own name and names of others.
Friend of the Day: Building Community through names
A Fresh Look at Phonics: Interview with Wiley Blevins, Ph.D
Sep 09, 2018
A Fresh Look at Phonics: Interview with Wiley Blevins, Ph.D
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In this week's podcast we talk phonics instruction with Wiley Blevins! Dr. Wiley Blevins is a world-renowned expert on early reading, and author of the seminal book Phonics From A to Z and A Fresh Look At Phonics, among many other works. He has taught in both United States and South America, and he regularly trains teachers throughout Asia. He holds a doctorate in education from Harvard University and has worked with numberous educational scholars, including Jeanne Chall, Isabel Beck, Marilyn Adams, Louisa Moats, Dianne August, and others.
In this weeks episode, Dr. Blevins will join us to talk about his book A Fresh Look At Phonics. I just finished reading this book and it's made a huge difference to my understanding and teaching of Phonics this year. One of my favorite parts of Blevin's book is how it breaks down the components of phonics in a way that demonstrates the systematic order we should be teaching in. With his permission, I've posted a few of my favorite tables from the book. First, a table of alphabet letters in order of utility, and then a table of the most frequent spellings of English sounds. I've also shown an example of one of Blevin's blending lines from his book. I loved the way that he builds differentiation into his blending lines, as well as review and repetition.
I highly suggest that you get yourself a copy of Blevin's book to help guide your instruction this year. I'm so happy that I've read it!
One thing that I am changing in my instruction this year, based on my reading, is building in more opportunities for my students to practice the skills they are learning. To that end, I've created decodable sight word sets based on the most common sight words and the Wonders sight word/letter sound progression. I will use these this year to make sure my students get the independant practice they need.
This set of books is specifically designed to use with the Wonders reading curriculum, or for anyone looking for great sight word readers that follow a logical sequence of sight word introduction, and the practice of decoding words made only from letters as they are introduced. The sight word order for this set of readers is: a, and, for, he, is, she, in, it, that, the, was, you, The letter order for this set of readers is: m, a, s, p, t, i, n, b, c, o, f, h, d, r, g, e, l, k Contents Include the Following 24 guided readers. A Map A Map (With pictures to add) For For (With pictures to add) Dad Dad (With pictures to add) Cat and Bat Cat and Bat (With pictures to add) Mop Mop (With pictures to add) In It In It (With pictures to add) That That (With pictures to add) The Pet Show The Pet Show (With pictures to add) It is For It is For (With pictures to add) Was That? Was That? (With pictures to add) Hide and Seek Hide and Seek (With pictures to add) Me and You Me and You (With pictures to add)
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Star of the Week: Building a Classroom Community
Aug 26, 2018
Star of the Week
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How do you build a classroom community? Two of the things we do are "Friend of the Day" and "Star of the Week". In this episode we'll walk you through the procedures we use to celebrate each child in our classroom, to help the children learn each other's names, and to build a classroom "family".
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Begin building a classroom community by having a daily "Friend of the Day." This is a great way for students to learn each other's names, build friendships and more.
You will want to build on this activity by allowing students to learn more about each other as you move from Friend of the Day to Star of the Week. *Note this product is included in the Name Unit.
We all know that an essential component of education is teaching with academic rigor, but what is rigor anyway? Today we will do a deep dive into that very question!
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Developmentally Appropriate Kindergarten: An Interview with Christopher P. Brown
Apr 27, 2018
Developmentally Appropriate Kindergarten: An Interview with Christopher P Brown
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Today we have an awesome conversation about appropriate practice in Kindergarten with Christopher P. Brown of the University of Texas at Austin. Christopher is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education. He holds the Maxine Foreman Zarrow Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Education. He is a Faculty Fellow with The Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Health and Social Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He is also the Past-Chair for the Early Education/Child Development Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. His research centers on how early childhood education stakeholders across a range of political and educational contexts make sense of and respond to policymakers' reforms. He has looked at this issue across a range of political and educational contexts using multiple theoretical and practitioner-based perspectives that span the fields of early childhood education, curriculum and instruction, teacher education, and policy analysis. Such work has led to empirical, theoretical, and practitioner-oriented publications on such topics as: high-stakes standards-based accountability reform in early childhood, early learning standards, pre-kindergarten (Pre-k) assessment, Pre-k alignment with elementary school, school readiness, culturally relevant and developmentally appropriate teaching, the changed kindergarten, neoliberal reform, teacher education, professional development, and teaching a mandated curriculum. Among his publications, 25 have been co-authored with 13 current and former graduate students at UT-Austin. His recent publications focus on three issues: 1) Examining how familial, education, research, and political stakeholders make sense of the changed kindergarten; 2) Understanding how practicing and pre-service early childhood educators in high-stakes public teaching contexts can engage in practices that support the cultural, individual, and developmental learning needs of children; 3) Examining the development of preservice teachers as they employ iPads in their teacher training program.
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Managing Behavior
Apr 01, 2018
Managing Behavior
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In today's episode we discuss some ways that you can manage behavior in your classroom (including some of our own nonexamples). Plus, Mom makes a big confession about her past... We hope you find some useful and practical ideas you can put to use right away!
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Maker Spaces: Interview with Maureen O’Reilly and Dr. Jenny Nash of Lego Education
Mar 26, 2018
Maker Spaces: Interview with Maureen O’Reilly and Dr. Jenny Nash of Lego Education
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Today we have a great discussion with Maureen Reilly and Dr. Jenny Nash of Lego Education about how Lego can be used to create a great school maker space and to support integrated and powerful learning opportunities.
Maureen Reilly is an educational consultant specializing in LEGO, robotics, and Maker Education. She is passionate about encouraging students and teachers to take risks, expand their creativity, and make their inventive ideas come to life. Maureen worked in public and independent schools as a homeroom teacher, robotics coach, Maker Space facilitator, and as a STEAM specialist. For over fifteen years, Maureen has developed creative educational content and community engagement experiences for the LEGO Company. Prior to her work in education, Maureen was a TV commercial producer, a producer for CartoonNetwork.com, and a Senior Producer for the LEGO Company. Outside of her professional work, Maureen founded the NYC STEAM Think Tank, a monthly meet-up for STEAM educators to network and share ideas. She is the Youth LEGO Ambassador of Fun for LEGO MINDSTORMS, the Master of Ceremonies for FIRST LEGO League robotics competitions, and co-founder of the Jr. Explorers Club, a summer adventure program for children. Maureen holds a dual Masters of Science in Education with a specialization in Literacy from the Bank Street College of Education.
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Dr. Jenny Nash serves as the Senior Educational Manager for LEGO® Education North America, where she provides direction and leadership in delivering meaningful education opportunities for districts. She works closely with administrators to design implementation plans and support teachers in using inquiry-based teaching through hands-on experiences. Previously, Jenny was the Director of Clinical Experiences and Director of Professional Development Schools at Marshall University, where she conducted STEM outreach and programming for K-12 schools in addition to working with student teacher candidates. She was also a general science teacher for a middle and high school in West Virginia, where she focused on provided blended learning and project-based learning experiences for her students.
Jenny is a long-time member of the National Science Teachers Association. She has a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Marshall University, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Marshall University, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Florida, specifically in the area of curriculum and teaching.
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Flexible Seating: Interview with Patti Clark of Lakeshore Learning Materials
Mar 18, 2018
Flexible Seating: Interview with Patti Clark of Lakeshore
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On today's podcast we are so lucky to be able to hear from Patti Clark, the Vice President of Product Development at Lakeshore Learning Materials! Patti's team has been hard at work researching how they can support teachers who want to use flexible seating in the classroom!
Patti began her career at Lakeshore as a Product Developer in 2000. As a former elementary educator with ten years of hands-on classroom experience, Patti’s passion for helping children learn was second to none. In 2007, she took on the role of Elementary Product Development Manager, overseeing the creation of hundreds of innovative products for school-age children. In 2010, Patti became Director of Research and Development, followed by a well-earned promotion to Vice President of Product Development in 2015. In both of these pivotal roles, Patti has led the company’s efforts to create top-quality, standards-based materials for early childhood programs, elementary classrooms and homes nationwide. Wholehearted in her dedication to meeting the needs of an ever-changing educational environment, Patti and her team visit regularly with teachers around the country to discuss their real-world classroom needs—educator to educator. Patti’s active involvement with professional groups such as NCTM, NAEYC, IRA and ASCD is further testament to her ongoing commitment to the education community.
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The Importance of Storytelling: An Interview with Michelle Lazarow and Peggy Kaye
Feb 04, 2018
The Importance of Storytelling: An Interview with Michelle Lazarow and Peggy Kaye
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Have you been trying to maximize the technology in your classroom? I certainly have. That's why I was so excited to find the Homer Learning app for my kindergartners! In this episode we get to talk to Michelle and Peggy of Homer Learning about the app and about the importance of listening and telling stories to the development of reading. You won't want to miss this one!
Michelle Lazarow is the Learning Theory Production Manager for HOMER, which means she bridges the gap between the HOMER Learning Team and Content Teams, while working on the production schedule for lessons and stories. Before starting at HOMER, Michelle taught preschool in New York City for many years, in both general ed classrooms as well working as an ABA therapist for children with Autism. She has a masters from Bank Street College of Education in Special and General Early Childhood Education, as well as a masters from New York University in Digital Media Design for Education. Michelle has always been fascinated with educational television and technology, and loves using her educational background to make HOMER the best educational product it can be.
Peggy Kaye is the Cheif Curriculum Officer at Homer, which means she designed the Homer approach to teaching foundational reading skills to young children. She began her career as a classroom teacher, but for the last 30 years, she has been a private tutor working with children who have a wide range of learning challenges. In addition, she is the author of the "Games For" series of books, which includes Games for Reading and Games for Writing.
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Part Whole Mathematical Relationships
Jan 16, 2018
Part Whole Mathematical Relationships
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In this week's podcast we talk about the importance of part/whole mathematical relationships and some activities you can try with your students to help them develop this important concept.
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Want to work on Part/Whole Number relationships with your students? Here are some free activities for you!
Inspired by our own December stress, we're podcasting today about ways that we as teachers can take care of ourselves. We hope that all of you take some time this holiday season to get some rest and reward yourselves for the amazing work that you do!
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The Snowman cross-curricular unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, science, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Your students will think learning is "snow fun!"
This complete Snowman Unit is filled with games and activities that your classroom or homeschool students will love, and will offer you numerous curriculum options that will tie academic learning to a snowman theme.
Table of Contents
Literacy Activities:
Snowman Spill: Automaticy of Lowercase Letter Sounds
Snowman Match-up: Matching Letters and Sounds
Build a Snowman: Blending and Segmenting Words
Snowman Melt: Reading High Frequency Words
Snowman Melt: Identifying Alphabet letters
Draw a Snowman: Reviewing Early Phonics and Phonological Skills
My Favorite Things: Identifying Medial Sounds
Beginning Sounds: Identifying and Writing Beginning Sounds
A-Z: Fluently Connecting Dots From a-z.
Writing the Alphabet A-Z and a-z: Practicing Alphabet Letter Formation
Math Activities:
Snowball Fight: Comparing Numbers
The Snowman's Buttons: Decomposing Numbers
Snowman Sets: Joining Sets Using a 10 Frame Strategy
Snowman Sums: Making a Sum of 10 Using an Unknown and a KnowN Addend With Visual Representation.
Symmetry Snowman: Symmetry Activity
Snowman Puzzles: Using Geometric Shapes to Construct a Snowman
The Tallest Snowman: Measurement
Snowman Number Hunt: Matching Quantity and Numerals
Math Journal Prompt (Labels): Joining Sets
Guided Reading Books
The Snowmen (Level B)
The Snowmen (Level C)
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
My Snowman
How To Build a Snowman
Snowman Word Wall
Snowman Label-it (3 Levels)
Science
The Melting Snowman: Observing States of Matter
Science Journal Page: Why does the sun melt the snowman?
Are you looking for engaging writing activities that can be set up in your permanent writing, phonics, word work, literacy center, writing work station, or literacy centers by any name? You will be so excited about this time-saving easy to differentiate resource!
Simply set up your space, and change monthly or thematically to meet your needs. Click on the preview above to see the anchor cards included and idea for classroom set up. Find out more about setting up a writing center here.Contents Include:
Students will read more quickly and effectively when given appropriate strategies for reading and instructed how to match those strategies to each reading situation. There are many important strategies to learn. This set focuses on the strategies that will enhance student reading during Guided Reading experiences.
This set includes strategy cards that you can use in your classroom to remind students of the strategies as you learn them. Also included are posters that you can use to teach each strategy. Print the posters on large paper if possible and display them where the class can see them. If you are using them in a whole group lesson you can print smaller versions. Each poster is followed by a lesson plan that will help you teach each reading strategy.
Happy New Year Thematic Unit is filled with Curriculum Essentials for Math, Literacy, and More: Featuring Clocks, Calendar and New Year's Fun
New Year unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Literacy Activities:
New Year Lotto: Matching Upper & Lowercase Letters
The Party Palace: Blending & Segmenting Words
Happy New Year: Naming Letter Sounds
New Year Raceway: Reading Sightwords Fluently
Math Activities:
New Year Clocks: Matching Time to The Hour
Moving Hands: Manipulating a Clock to Tell Time
New Year's Bear Party: Joining Groups of Objects
Happy Friday Dance: Constructing & Using a Calendar
Countdown: Counting Backwards From a Given Number 0-20
Independent Practice
New Year Balloons: Reading Color Words
What Time Is It? Reading Analog Clocks and Writing Times Digitally
Fix The Clock: Drawing Hands on an Analog Clock
Firework Number Match: Matching Numerals 11-20 to a 10+Number
Parents, do you need some strategies for reading with your child at home? Teachers, do you need some ideas to send home with students to maximize their reading time with their parents? In this podcast we will address some of the things that parents can do at home with their children during reading time to maximize their skills.
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Need some books to read with your child or students? Try these out!
Bear theme guided readers make learning to read fun and engaging! Kids LOVE these paper bear themed books!
Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Plus your kiddos will love them!
Christmas Themed Guided Readers to Read and Color!
Offering students a "paper" book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Students love these delightful stories that are ready to read on their level. The clip art is delightful!
Fall theme emergent readers make learning to read fun and engaging. Using real books is an easy way to apply science of reading and standards!
Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Kids LOVE these paper fall themed books!
Do you have students who just don't seem to be "getting it"? Perhaps the problem is their working memory. Today we'll discuss activities and strategies you can use to build your student's working memory, giving them the ability to better store the information they are being taught.
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Planning Writing Units: Interview With Kathy Tuchman Glass
Oct 15, 2017
Planning Writing Units: Interview With Kathy Tuchman Glass
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Kathy Tuchman Glass, a consultant and master teacher, is an accomplished author and former classroom teacher with more than twenty-five years of experience in education. She provides customized professional development services to K–12 educators with a focus on areas concerning curriculum and instruction. Among her many topics are differentiated instruction, standards work around English language arts, literacy, instructional strategies and teaching methods across content areas, assessments and rubrics, curriculum mapping, and backward planning for unit and lesson design.
Kathy is invested in increasing educators’ capacity to hone their craft and translate what she teaches to effective classroom practice. An author and dynamic, hands-on trainer, she provides professional development that educators can implement immediately to make a difference in students’ learning.
Kathy earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a master’s degree in education from San Francisco State University. Originally a Midwesterner, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and continues to hold a current teaching credential. You can learn more about Kathy by visiting her website.
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Kathy has graciously shared these great resources with us to help us get started planning our writing units!
Nine great writing center activity based worksheets. Your classroom or homeschool students will love to write using these engaging independent writing practice activities. Easy to set up, easy to use, impactful and engaging! Activities Include: Label The Astronaut -- Anchor Chart Label The Astronaut Worksheets The Astronaut: Can, Has, Is -- Anchor Chart The Astronaut: Can, Has, Is Student Worksheet Write About Astronauts Worksheets (Can, Has, Is) Label-It I Can -- Anchor Chart Label-It Student Worksheets Make a List I Can -- Anchor ChartChart Make a List Student Worksheet Out In Space Word Wall Write a Story I Can -- Anchor Chart Write a Story Prompt Worksheets Write The Room -- Anchor Chart Write The Room Worksheet Write The Room Word Cards Alien Words -- Anchor Chart Alien (Mirror) Words CVC Words Anchor Chart CVC Picture Cards CVC Worksheet
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Don't Let Them Take Your Joy: Interview with Dr. Jean
Oct 13, 2017
Don't Let Them Take Away Your Joy: Interview with Dr Jean
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Dr. Jean Feldman’s noteworthy educational career has spanned more than 40 years. She has served as a classroom teacher, instructor of adults, author, and consultant. She is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the National Kindergarten Alliance, and the International Reading Association. Dr. Feldman’s list of degrees include a B.A. from the University of Georgia, a D.A.S.T. from Emory University, and both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia State University. Dr. Feldman inspires teachers across the country with her engaging songs and creative activities that help make teaching and learning FUN!
You can learn more about Dr. Jean by visiting her website, her blog, or her new "Happies" blog. She has so many great resources available there!
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The Alphabetic Principle
Sep 23, 2017
The Alphabetic Principle
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Hello everyone! Today we will talk about the Alphabetic Principle, why it's so important, and some ways that you can teach it! We are both working hard on teaching alphabet letters right now and here's a picture of Mom's whole group alphabet materials to prove it.
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Are you working on teaching the alphabetic principle too? Here are some activities that might help you out!
These alphabet lessons are developmentally appropriate and designed to teach early learners confidence with the alphabet.
The alphabet activities are based on reading research and national standards; they have been classroom tested by thousands of five and six year olds! The objectives, rationale, and/or language objectives are clearly stated for your added confidence. The material section is clear and concise to make lesson preparation a breeze! Remember to file all of the materials together in a file folder to make the preparation even easier the next time the lesson is delivered!
Building Letters: Students explore letter formation and analyze the similar features that letters share.
Write The School: Finding and writing Alphabet letters in a familiar environment.
Bus Stop: Recognizing letters of the alphabet and enjoy some Recess Time!
Letter Match: Matching uppercase letters on a Coconut Tree.
Alphabet Relay: Naming uppercase letters at a fast pace as a team competition.
Letter Treasure: Building toward automaticity of uppercase letters by playing an active game of letter discovery.
Don't Eat Pete!: Naming alphabet letters at a fast pace. But Don't Eat Pete!
The Cookie Jar: Drawing and naming alphabet letters to avoid the mouse!
Your early learners will love these "Developmentally Appropriate" and easy to prepare games that is the secret sauce to alphabet instruction.
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Transitional Kindergarten: Interview with Palma Lindsay
Sep 15, 2017
Transitional Kindergarten: Interview with Palma Lindsay
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Today we have an interview with Palma Lindsay of KFUNdamentals! Palma is a kindergarten teacher who has stayed on the cutting-edge of educational research and technology throughout her 37-year classroom career. She has taught grades K-8, served as a mentor to new teachers, and shares her fun ideas in her innovative blog which is jam-packed with new and fresh ways to keep the FUN in the FUNdamentals.
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The First 9 Weeks of Kindergarten
Sep 01, 2017
The First 9 Weeks of Kindergarten
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The beginning of school is upon us and we are tired! Here we'll present you with some tips for the first 9 weeks of kindergarten. If you are trying to set up a classroom based on play and investigative learning (like we are doing) it takes time (probably at least 9 weeks of practice) but it's worth it in the end when you've got a classroom full of little discoverers!
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Music And Song: Interview with Heidi Butkus
Aug 11, 2017
Music and Song: Interview with Heidi Butkus
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Heidi Butkus has been teaching in California public schools since 1985. Combining a strong knowledge of brain research with practical experience, Heidi has created a wealth of fun and engaging teaching techniques that work well with diverse populations. She has presented at conferences nationwide, and is the owner and founder of HeidiSongs.com. Heidi has also created fourteen original CD's and DVD's for teaching beginning reading and math skills, three musical plays designed especially for young performers, and has written some picture books and many other teaching resources. Heidi's multimedia workshops are filled with fun and motivational educational activities that have been classroom tested and revised for effectiveness with all types of learners. Today Heidi joins us to talk about Heidi Songs and how music in the classroom can be a powerful tool for learning.
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The First Day of School
Aug 04, 2017
The First Day of School
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We are gearing up for the first day of school and we're here to give you some tips and tricks for making it go smoothly and for setting up your year for success. We include practical tips like... getting a pedicure and a haircut. Which are definitely serious suggestions. Trust us.
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Setting Up Your Classroom Part 2
Jul 14, 2017
Classroom Setup Part 2
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As per your requests, we are going to talk more about how to set up your classroom, with specific tips for new teachers and more advice about organizing your materials and filing cabinet. Thank you so much for emailing us and telling us what you would like to write about. Please continue to send us your suggestions at kindergartenkiosk@gmail.com!
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Setting Up Your Classroom
Jul 07, 2017
Setting Up Your Classroom
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Want some tips for setting up your classroom for the new school year? Well we've got some (considering we are both in the middle of trying to set up classrooms). It can be stressful, but if you take it bit by bit you can end up with a great looking room!
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The Great Disconnect: Interview with Michael Gramling
Jun 23, 2017
The Great Disconnect: Interview with Michael Gramling
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Michael Gramling is a lifelong advocate for social justice who found his professional home in 1979 when he discovered Head Start and embraced its values and its goals working as a Head Start teacher. Currently he spends most of his time visiting early childhood programs all over the United States as a consultant and a trainer helping programs to elevate the level of discourse in classrooms and to meet the needs of individual children. In doing so he has gained a unique perspective and a thorough and intimate understanding of how early childhood education is practiced in the United States.
Michael earned his Masters Degree in Human Development at Pacific Oaks College in 2000 and has served as the coordinator and chief trainer for the Region IV Head Start Teaching Center at Western Kentucky University. In 2000 he developed the national training material used by the Head Start National Center for Family Literacy. He was a contributing author to the Zero to Three 2003 tome, Learning to Read the World, and has had two articles published in Child Care Exchange. Today he joins us to discuss his book The Great Disconnect in Early Childhood Education: What We Know Vs What We Do.
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Our Favorite Books
Jun 16, 2017
Our Favorite Books
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Today is a listener requested topic. What are some of our favorite books for professional and personal development? Here are the books we mentioned. Buying these books through these affiliate links will help to support the podcast.
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Whiteness In Education: Interview with James Singer
Jun 02, 2017
Whiteness in Education: Interview with James Singer
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James Singer teaches sociology at Westminster College and Salt Lake Community College and is enrolled in a doctoral program in the Sociology of Labor Markets and Social Policy at Utah State University. Singer is a member of the Navajo Nation and is a cofounder of the Utah League of Native American Voters. He is running for U.S. Senate in Utah and you can find out more about him at singerforsenate.com. Today he will talk with us about how "whiteness in education" affects the way we teach and will give us some ideas on how to make education more multicultural.
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Launch, Explore, Debrief
May 13, 2017
Launch, Explore, Debrief
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Today we will discuss the launch, explore, debrief methodology. This is a great way of teaching a math lesson so that the children become more involved in the lesson as they are given a chance to explore math concepts on their own at their own developmental level. You may noticed that this episode was originally done through Facebook Live, which was certainly an adventure...
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Balancing Math Education: Interview with Sean Nank, Ph.D
Apr 28, 2017
Balancing Math Education: Interview with Sean Nank, Ph.D
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Today we are joined by Dr. Sean Nank, a faculty member at American College of Education and author of Testing Over Teaching: Mathematics Education in the 21st Century. We will discuss how teachers can strike a balance in their teaching between concepts, procedures, and applications. The podcast is also crashed by three new co-hosts who all want to have a turn talking about math...
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Running Records: Interview with Kira Beck
Apr 21, 2017
Running Records: Interview with Kira Beck
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Kira Beck is a Reading Recovery teacher and Literacy Coach who has taught Reading Recovery for eleven years. She currently teaches a class on using running records to help struggling readers in the Alpine School District. Today Kira shares her expertise on using running records effectively in the classroom.
Here are some video examples of how to give a running record. Keep in mind that you don't have to use a recording form with text as this may be too restrictive. For example, if the teacher would have recorded what the child said when he tried the word their wouldn't have been room to do so.
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Avoiding Burnout: Interview with Dr. Laine Young-Walker, M.D. and Vicki Davolt, LMSW
Apr 14, 2017
Avoiding Burnout: Interview with Dr. Laine Young-Walker, M.D. and Vicki Davolt, LMSW
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Dr. Young-Walker, M.D. and Vicki Davolt, LMSW join the podcast today to discuss the Early Childhood Positive Behavior Support program, a county wide initiative that assists early learning centers in establishing and maintaining effective learning environments. Dr. Young-Walker has recently published a study based on the discoveries she has made through this initiative concerning teacher support and burnout, namely, that supportive training has a positive effect on teachers of young children. The study, "Supporting Professional Development Needs for Early Childhood Teachers: An Exploratory Analysis of Teacher Perceptions of Stress and Challenging Behavior" was recently published in the International Journal on Disability and Human Development.
Laine Young-Walker, M.D.
Dr. Laine Young-Walker, M.D. is associate Dean for Student Programs, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Division Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She was the principal investigator for 4 projects funded by the Boone County Children's Services Board:
1) MU Bridge--School Based Psychiatry--funded since 2015
2) EC-PBS (Early Childhood-Positive Behavior Supports)--funded through LAUNCH (2010-2015) and Boone County Children's Service board from 2015 to present.
3) SOAR (System Offering Actions for Resilience) in Early Childhood--funded since 2016
4) BC-EBB (Boone County Early Child Coalition)--recently awarded to begin in Spring 2017
Vicki Davolt, LMSW, is the EC-PBS Coordinator.
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Compacting the Curriculum into Half Day K
Apr 07, 2017
Compacting the Curriculum into Half Day K
Today's podcast is a listener requested topic: How to compact the curriculum into a half day schedule? Well, it's tough, but definitely doable and well give you some tips on how to get it done!
Here is an example of Kathy’s half day schedule:
8:20-8:30 AM: Come in and Read (Short Literacy Activities/Name Tickets) (M/Tu/TH)
8:20-8:40 Specials: LIBRARY (W) PE (F)
-Opening and Math are cut to 15 minutes on these days
You can also click here and here to see her full day schedule.
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Gifted Students: Interview with Joelle Trayers
Mar 12, 2017
Gifted Students: Interview with Joelle Trayers
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Joelle Trayers has been teaching GT Kindergarten for several years and loves it. She shares her teaching tips at Not Just Child's Play: Challenging Young Minds. She knows it's difficult to find ideas to really challenge kids in early childhood, but it can be done, and in today's podcast she'll give us some ideas for working with our gifted kids!
We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
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S.T.E.M.
Feb 24, 2017
S.T.E.M.
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Teaching S.T.E.M. (or STEAM or STREAM) in your early childhood/early elementary classroom is easier than you might think! In this week's podcast we'll discuss simple ideas for including more S.T.E.M. in your schedule.
Here are links to some of the ideas mentioned in this week's episode.
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This first riddle is the TED ed riddle I mentioned in the podcast. The next videos are riddles I made for young children to solve using STEM skills.
We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
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Dyslexia: Interview with Dr. Scott Crane and Emily Gibbons
Feb 19, 2017
Dyslexia: Interview with Dr. Scott Crane and Emily Gibbons
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One episode with double the knowledge! In this episode about helping students with dyslexia first Dr. Scott Crane talks about what it's like to live with dyslexia.
Dr. Crane has worked in education for the last 38 years as a teacher, coach, school level administrator, district level secondary education specialist, business manager, assistant superintendent and superintendent. He has served in three school districts. He began his career teaching and coaching in his home town of Burley, Idaho and then spent 26 year as an administrator in Blackfoot, Idaho. In Blackfoot he began his administrative career as a middle school assistant principal and ended as the district superintendent.
In 2012 Dr Crane retired from Idaho and began his second career as the Superintendent of Grand County School District in Moab, Utah. He received his Bachelors of Arts Degree from Brigham Young University and his Masters of Education, Educational Specialist and Doctorate from Idaho State University. As a child he was diagnosed with dyslexia and received special instruction to help him learn to read.
After the conversation with Dr. Crane, Emily Gibbons will discuss how teachers can strategically teach dyslexic students. Emily is the creator of The Literacy Nest. She has worked with children between the ages of 1 to 12 since 1996 in a variety of settings. Her Masters Degree in Curriculum, Instruction, and Literacy sparked her passion to create and design classroom materials. She has a thirst for knowledge and a deep desire to help struggling readers with dyslexia. She has an Orton-Gillingham certification through IMSLEC and creates resources that she sells through her Teachers Pay Teachers store to help parents and teachers ensure that every child becomes a reader.
To learn more about helping students with dyslexia, Emily suggests reading Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz. You can find it here. Buying the book through this affiliate link helps to support the podcast.
We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
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Dramatic Play
Feb 11, 2017
Dramatic Play
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In today's episode we discuss the Dramatic Play center and it's benefits in the Kindergarten classroom.
Here are 5 reasons why increasing play in the classroom increases learning: Play Stimulates Thinking: Play will stimulate children's minds and promote advanced intellectual development! It also is a great way for children to expand experiences through reenacting events. These reenactments allow experiences to make more sense and have more meaning, paving the way for future academic success. Play Defines Social Roles: Dramatic play helps children learn social roles and rules, and offers time to practice such social morays as sharing, taking turn, communicating to inform or persuade, and resolving conflicts, and cooperation. Play Inspires Creativity and Imagination: When children are engaged in dramatic play, they can be anyone that they want to be and can even do the impossible! This type of play encourages children to use their imagination and to be creative, as there are no limits. This creative ability will aide students throughout their lives as they become creative and learn to solve problems. Play Builds Emotional Strength: Young children have a hard time understanding and controlling feelings. By engaging in creative play, children can learn to manage and understand certain feelings by re-enacting episodes. Dramatic play can also enhance children's ability to empathize with other people. Play Develops Language: Dramatic play encourages expressive language. Children are motivated to convey their wishes to others and speak from the perspective of their pretend roles. In fact, it is often through dramatic play that shy or withdrawn children first begin to express themselves through language.
Don't have a Dramatic Play Center in your classroom? Well give you some tips and ideas to get you started!
Dramatic play offers unprecedented opportunities for teaching Common Core Math concepts through authentic experiences. In fact, when asked to work on math skills in the context of a play situation, students are always able to work at a level above their normal skill. To meet the high academic demands of the 21st century, play will be critical to student success, scaffolding their learning in a way that allows them to be successful.
Wizard of Oz and Wicked Fans alike will love this Wizard of Oz Musical Play for Young Children! Our goal is that as your students participate with this script and musical performance, they will, not only become more familiar with one of America’s great novels, but some musical history as well!
Put the Science of Reading into action the most authentic way possible! Integrate literature and music with this musical play of L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with song lyrics written by Baum himself! Your children will have the opportunity to participate in an experience they'll never forget.
These performance materials contain everything that you will need, including background information, 2 script versions (varying reading levels), sheet music for each song, and 2 mp3s for each song (one that has vocals to help the children learn the songs and one that is accompaniment only). These songs are both original and/or adapted by the Frank Baum's 1902 musical. This leads to a great opportunity for an author's study!
The parts for the play are: Narrator(s), Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, Dorothy, Locasta, Munchkins, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, Poppies, Guardian of the Gate, Wizard, Wicked Witch, Flying Monkeys, Glinda, Chorus The numbers of poppies, monkeys, locust and munchkins can vary depending on class size. The show is easily adaptable in size!
There are ten songs in the play. (Of course you can add songs from the movies as desired).
Gray
Just a Little Girl
When We Get What's A-Comin' To Us
Locasta
The Poppy Song
The Guardian of the Gate
The Wicked Witch
Flying Monkeys
Humbug
Home Sweet Home
The performance lasts 30-40 minutes.
We have used this play with K-2 students and they love it!
What customers are saying...
"We have used this play with K-2 students and they love it!
"This was such a fun play!! Kids loved it."
"Great resource for my drama class! My students and I made adaptations and performed the play for our Spring Performance."
Center Signs for Back To School and the Entire School Year!
Dress up your learning centers while informing the observer of the learning that takes place during center time, with original "Who Knows" poetry and delightful signs. Each sign encourages the development that takes places through center-time learning.
These posters/charts have a photograph reflecting the center, center title, and a great list of objectives and career connection, written in poetry form, that truly cause the reader to have reflection of the objectives. ** Administrators can easily take note when evaluating the learning in your classroom by simply reading the center signs.
Currently there are 26 "I Am" posters from which to choose, pocket chart or center board title cards for each poster.
If you would rather have clip-art versions of these cards, go here:
Bring guided reading to a new level by using "Partner Plays" also called "Reader's Theater." These books have simple, adorable scripts, that will increase student's ability to read with expression and fluency.
Contents:
Henny Penny
Jack and the Beanstalk
Little Red Hen
Little Red Riding Hood
The Three Little Pigs
The Three Billy Goats
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Playworks: Interview with Chris Conard
Jan 20, 2017
Playworks: Interview with Chris Conard
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Playworks is a leading nonprofit that brings safe and healthy play to children. One keystone element of the Playworks program is leveraging the power of play to encourage social emotional learning, which empowers kids with lifelong skills like empathy, leadership, and conflict resolution.
Chris Conard has been working with Playworks since 2007 and is continually inspired by the power of play in education. Beginning as a program coordinator in the Bay Area, he has worked his way up the Playworks ladder including such positions as the administrative associate and national expansion manager. He is excited to bring his love for Playworks to Salt Lake City and help others spread the power of play. Chris is continually motivated by the way play can be a vehicle for social change.
We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
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Creating Learning Games
Jan 14, 2017
Creating Learning Games
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Want to know how to turn dry lesson plans from your big box curriculum into fun, engaging lesson plans that are developmentally appropriate? In today's podcast we discuss easy ways you can make interactive, hands-on activities that your students will love.
We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
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Becoming Brilliant: Interview with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D
Dec 30, 2016
Becoming Brilliant: Interview with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
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Our interview today is with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D, author of the book Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less about the new book she has written with Roberta Michnick Golinkoff: Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells us About Raising Successful Children. It's so inspiring to hear her vision for the future of education. Here's a sample:
"I want to suggest that teacher's make a difference every day. I meet wonderful people who are out there giving of themselves to help every child get a chance and I think teachers are just the most remarkable people. I don't believe that any of us, including teachers, can do it all and sometimes society expects us to solve every problem, to make every cure, and I think that's an unfair burden. Trust yourself... learn what we know and use it. There's a lot of science of learning that's out there for the taking so we shouldn't just do what the book told us to do on Tuesdays because it's Tuesday. Learn a little bit about what goes behind the teaching. Not just what the response ought to be; what the processes are. I'll tell you why that's so important. One day I went to a school and a little girl raised her hand because they were asking about an animal, what animal was it, and the kid got it wrong, but the kid said "tiger" instead of "cat". There was an opportunity there because "tiger" wasn't as wrong as "bear" or "snake" or "bird". If you thought about the process you could say, "Actually, a tiger's related to the feline family!" That helps the kids make connections to have stronger vocabulary. So learn what's out there. Trust yourself. Learn what's out there. Help parents understand that you're their best advocate and amid all the constraints that are out there, and, gosh, I know there are many. Try, at least, beyond those constraints to add you. To add a love of learning, a little bit of playful learning, in that classroom."
“Trust yourself... learn what we know and use it.”
— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
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We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
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Blending and Segmenting
Dec 18, 2016
Blending and Segmenting
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In today's podcast we discuss blending and segmenting and some of the ways you can help kids practice these skills in your classroom. We hope you enjoy the podcast and get some helpful hints and suggestions for your class!
We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
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Are you looking for some great games that can be used to teach your students or homeschool students how to segment phonemes with fluency, the essential precursor to decoding? You will love this great packet! Helps with your Dibels scores too! Games include: Fingerprint CVC Words The Big Game BAM Boo! Simon Says Segmenting Floating Sounds Ladybug Dance Santa Gets Dressed
“Great purchase! I printed everything off and prepped all the games. Put everything in its own sheet protector and placed in a binder. Now I just pull out a game and it is ready to go. What are the three greatest things about Kindergarten Kiosk purchases.... 1) educationally top notch (Kathy knows her stuff and knows how to effectively teach the concepts while the kids are having a great time.) 2) LOVE that the games...because that what they all are...are scripted! They can be handed to a parent volunteer or sub and away they go! 3) time tested (research based :) ) These are the very same games that Kathy has used for years, they weren't just made up and published quickly to make a few extra dollars. They are TIMELESS! I've loved EVERY purchased from Kindergarten Kiosk and look forward to many years ahead of using these resources.”
Balancing the Equation: Interview with Timothy D. Kanold PhD
Dec 10, 2016
Balancing the Equation: Interview with Timothy D. Kanold, PhD
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In today's episode we get the chance to talk to Dr. Kanold about his book Balancing the Equation. Dr. Kanold is an award-winning educator, author, and consultant. He is former director of mathematics and science and served as superintendent of Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125, a model professional learning community (PLC) district in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
Dr. Kanold is committed to equity and excellence for students, faculty, and school administrators. He conducts highly motivational professional development leadership seminars worldwide with a focus on turning school vision into realized action that creates greater equity for students through the effective delivery of PLCs for faculty and administrators. Dr. Kanold currently serves as the director of Mathematics at Work, a comprehensive K-12 school improvement program to promote and improve student learning in mathematics.
He is past president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) and coauthor of several best-selling mathematics textbooks since the late 1980s. He has served on writing commissions for NCTM and NCSM and has authored numerous articles and chapters on school leadership and development for education publications.
Dr. Kanold received the prestigious international 2010 Damen Award for outstanding contributions to the leadership field of education from Lyola University Chicago the 1986 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and the 1994 Outstanding Administrator Award (from the Illinois State Board of Education). He serves as an adjunct faculty member for the graduate school at Loyola University Chicago.
Dr. Kanold earned a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in mathematics from Illinois State University. He completed a master's degree in educational administration at the University of Illinois and received a doctorate in educational leadership and counseling psychology from Loyola University Chicago.
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We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
If you enjoy the podcast and can review us on iTunes that would be amazing. We really appreciate your reviews as they help us continue to make the podcast and help other teachers to find us.
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Intervention
Dec 05, 2016
Intervention
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Today we will discuss the importance of Intervention in the early grades as well as the famous "Intervention Hour" we keep mentioning. We would love to hear about how you set up intervention in your classroom! You can write to us and let us know at kindergartenkiosk@gmail.com
We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
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Bullying: Interview with Tomas Jungert, Ph.D.
Nov 18, 2016
Bullying: Interview with Tomas Jungert, Ph.D.
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In a study from Lund University, Sweden, Dr. Tomas Jungert has shown that warm and caring student-teacher relationships can be linked to students' motivation to intervene in cases of bullying.
“The results from Tomas Jungert’s study showed a connection between warm student-teacher relationships and the internal motivation of students to defend victims of bullying. “It could be a relationship where the teacher tries to be empathetic and get along with the student, rather than to issue threats of punishment”, says Tomas Jungert. There was, on the other hand, a link between conflicted teacher-student relationships and the students’ external motivation to help victims of bullying but, as it turns out, it is the internal, not the external, motivation that becomes significant in the defence of bullied students. Students driven by an external motivation, on the contrary, are more inclined to remain passive bystanders or even side with the bully when witnessing an act of bullying. “Those who are driven by external motivation want to receive praise and perhaps increase their status within the group. In a situation of victimisation found in many schools, it is very plausible to assume that many students find it less risky and more profitable to associate with the bully, which is often a person with a lot of power”, says Tomas Jungert.”
— Lund University
We had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Jungert about the study and it's possible implications for educators. We believe in developing positive relationships with our students and encouraging internal motivation in them, and we think you'll enjoy hearing about research that supports how important this is!
We also had the chance to talk to Maria Mottaghian and Aimee Brown from the Oregon Child Development Coalition about helping migrant students. You won't want to miss hearing their experiences and advice. You can find it on our main blog.
If you enjoy the podcast and can review us on iTunes that would be amazing. We really appreciate your reviews as they help us continue to make the podcast and help other teachers to find us.
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Fine and Gross Motor Skills: Interview with Megan MacDonald, Ph.D
Nov 11, 2016
Fine and Gross Motor Skills: Interview with Megan MacDonald, Ph.D
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Megan MacDonald, Ph.D, an assistant professor in Oregon State University's College of Public Health and Human Sciences was recently involved in a study that found that preschoolers with better fine and gross motor skill development will have improved social behavior and executive function. Megan joins us today to talk about the study, it's findings, and the implications for teachers. You can find an article about the study here and more information on Megan MacDonald here.
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Making the Most of Donors Choose
Oct 28, 2016
Making the Most of Donors Choose
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In today's podcast, we have a conversation about Donors Choose and Mom shares some tips for getting your project funded. We also learn the power a single dollar can have in the success of your project! We want to make sure that everyone knows that we are not tax accountants and that our experience with donorschoose.org is unique to us. Please consult your own tax representatives for your own situation.
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Growth Mindset: Interview with Annie Brock and Heather Hundley
Oct 21, 2016
Growth Mindset: Interview with Annie Brock and Heather Hundley
Today's amazing interview is with Heather Hundley and Annie Brock, the author's of The Growth Mindset Coach. This fantastic book offers a month by month guide to teaching Growth Mindset in the classroom. It is so well researched and so full of amazing ideas, you will definitely want a copy on your bookshelf! Buying the book through this affiliate link helps to support the podcast.
Heather Hundley is an elementary educator with 12 years of teaching experience. She currently works as an Instructional Support Specialist with Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service Center. Heather has an elementary education degree from Washburn University and master's degrees in education and in school leadership from Baker University. She has served as a supervisor for pre-service teachers and as a guest lecturer with Washburn University. Heather was recently named a Kansas finalist for the 2016 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Annie Brock is a former library media specialist and high school language arts teacher. She graduated with a degree in journalism and mass communications from Kansas State University and earned her teaching credentials through Washburn University. She currently works as a freelance writer and educational technology consultant. Annie previously authored Introduction to Google Classroom. She lives in Holton, Kansas, with her husband, Jared, and their two children.
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Want more Growth Mindset ideas and activities? We have some!
Growth Mindset is a simple, yet powerful idea that can unlock the potential of all students.
The following monthly lessons will help you create a classroom community that fosters a growth mindset. We’ve spread the activities out over the year, but feel free to use them at whatever pace works best for your classroom!
Table of Contents
August: We Respect Ourselves, Our Classroom, and Each Other
Free Choice time in kindergarten is a time that students are able to self-regulate activities based on their own interests.
We always makes time in our schedule for "Free Choice" a time when children are able to choose their own activities and goals. Giving children free choice time allows them the freedom to fulfill their own needs in a way that recognizes their individuality, desires, and interests.
We discuss how allotting this time of unstructured play builds children's academic, social, and emotional ability. We hope you will all find time for free choice in your classroom, here is a peek into ours…
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A Trauma Lens: Interview with Kelly Vagts
Sep 23, 2016
A Trauma Lens: Interview with Kelly Vagts
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Today we have an interview with Kelly Vagts about the "trauma lens". Kelly Vagts is a clinical social worker who provides direct therapy services to grades K - 6 at HMK Elementary in Moab, Utah. Her speciality is working with children who have experienced trauma. As a therapist, she is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) and TF-CBT (Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), and will soon to be adding Neurofeedback to her trauma treatment repertoire. She prides herself on staying current with innovative trauma interventions that are based on the ever evolving field of neuroscience.
Here is the pyramid that Kelly refers to in the podcast:
And here is a video explaining Epigenetics:
And here is the brain scan that Kelly refers to. The abused brain is on the right, as compared to the healthy brain on the left.
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The Writing Center
Sep 16, 2016
The Writing Center
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Today Mom discusses her writing center even though she's been sick and only feels at about 80% (hang in there Mom). At the writing center, students practice their writing skills in an independent, but supported environment.
Here's what the writing center looks like:
On the bulletin board there are task cards for each day of the week and in the basket below is the corresponding work page for each day. Next to the bulletin board is a magnetic word wall with thematic words on it.
Want a cool magnetic word wall like this one? Just stop by your local sheet metal/furnace store and ask them to cut out the size you need. Then attach it to a wall or shelf with screws. Easy peasy!
If you want to set up a writing center that's easy and ready to go, here are some products to get you started!
Create a great writing center this year that is easy to use, will save you time, and will allow students opportunity to focus on important Core Standard Writing Skills!
You will love this kit! it includes everything you need to set up your classroom writing space (all items can be easily scaled to fit your space).
-Writing Poster (Why Write): Remember to make this poster size if you wish!
-Writing Titles: Books, Stories, Letters, Lists, Notes, Cards, How To, Labels, Recipes, Alphabet Letters, Sight Words, Important Words, Poetry (Two Border Choices to Choose From).
-Writing Samples Posters for every title.
-I Can Poster Activity Instructions for titled categories of writing
-Blackline Activity Sheets For Independent student work. (Can be used as independent worksheets, or scaled to fit into an interactive writing journal).
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Elections: Interview with Mary Parry
Sep 03, 2016
Elections: Interview with Mary Parry
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As we gear up for election season, we are fortunate to be able to interview Mary Parry about her debut children's book Sadie McGrady Runs For President, which follows Sadie McGrady on her fictional journey from regular kid to President of the United States, as she explores what it’s like to run a campaign and become a world leader. Will she win on Election Day? And if she does, will she have what it takes to be a good president?
Mary is a writer and mother of three with a passion for including more women in politics and leadership. She grew up in Missouri, went to college in Texas, and now lives in North Carolina, where she has been busy dedicating her career to advocating for women and girls. Mary served as a women’s vote director during the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns in North Carolina, providing education about women’s issues and encouraging women to vote. She was the Director of Advocacy for Women AdvaNCe, working to engage more women in the political process in North Carolina.
Through her work — and her own daughter who sought a way in to civic engagement -- Mary has seen kids with passion and ambition for creating change. She has come to believe that leadership can be experienced and nurtured from a very young age, and she wrote Sadie McGrady Runs for President to help parents and daughters become empowered and to become women who lead. She hopes her writing can inspire kids to take their own goals and ideas seriously and to set their goals for leadership roles, whatever path in life they choose.
You might also consider adding our Election Thematic Unit to your curriculum this year. Your subtends will love learning about Mr. President while practicing academic skills that are strategically linked to standards.
President's Day or Presidential Election Thematic Unit.
Your classroom or homeschool students will love this President's Day or Presidential Election Thematic Unit. Enjoy teaching young children about Mr. President while practicing academic skills that are strategically linked to Core Standards.
Contents Include
Literacy Activities
A Call From Mr. President: Alphabet Letter Fluency
Race to the Capital: Identifying Alphabet Letters and Sounds or Reading CVC Words
Washington and Lincoln: Reading and Matching Sight Words
Bear Country Voters: Writing Alphabet Letters
Patriotic Sounds: Isolating the Beginning Sounds in Words
Rhyming Flags: Rhyming
The Flag: Sentence Tracing
Math Activities
Campaign Buttons: Ordering Numbers 0-12
Red, White, and Blue Party: Counting (or Adding) Objects
The Donkey and the Elephant: Comparing Numbers
Counting Stars: Counting Objects to Match a Given Number
Design a Flag: Recognizing Shapes Regardless of Orientation
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Guided Writing
Aug 26, 2016
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Guided Writing
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You won’t want to miss these great tips to get your students writing!
Are you looking to greatly improve student writing in your kindergarten classroom?
These Writing Continuum Cards align to kindergarten core expectations. These simple cards allow students to self monitor as they work towards the progression to the next level of writing.
This continuum includes six steps: 1) Prewriting 2) Random Letter Stage 3) Emergent Stage 4) Developmental Stage 5) Pre-Conventional Stage 6) Conventional Stage.
Each card describes the characteristics that reflect the writing stage in a “I Can” format. The characteristics are written clearly to allow students understanding of the learning necessary as they move forward to the next writing level. Providing these clearly written anchor cards motivate young writers to aspire to reach greater heights.
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Outdoor Classrooms: Interview with Victoria Hackett
Aug 12, 2016
Outdoor Classrooms: Interview with Victoria Hackett
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Today we have an interview with Victoria Hackett. Victoria is the founder of Outdoor-Classrooms.com. As a parent, educational consultant, trainer and coach, Victoria inspires playful learning. She has been in the field of education for over twenty-five years and holds a Masters in Education from Cambridge College. After years of working with children, educators, and parents (in various settings) Victoria has cultivated a passion for creating children's gardens as outdoor classrooms and has been spreading the concepts of Outdoor Classrooms ever since. Her mission is to create an international virtual community of Natural Teachers who inspire children to reconnect with nature. Her vision is for every child, in every school, to have access to an Outdoor Classroom.
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Shared Writing
Aug 05, 2016
Shared Writing
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Today Mom and I will discuss Shared Writing: what it's benefits are and some of her favorite Shared Writing activities for the classroom. We also get the giggles.
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Mathematics: An Interview with Tamara Shaw
Jul 29, 2016
Mathematics: An Interview with Tamara Shaw
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Today's episode is a real treat! We have an interview with Tamara Shaw about mathematics education. Tamara is currently a special education teacher with Weber School District. She spent 5 years in between teaching assignments as a math coach and has also spent the past 8 years developing curriculum and teaching teachers about common core math, best practices in math instruction, and math pedagogy with the Utah State Office of Education. She has an undergraduate degree in psychology, graduate degree in middle school mathematics, an elementary math endorsement, and a special education mild/moderate endorsement.
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Today we will talk about portfolios. How do you get started? How do you store them? And how do they provide authentic assessment? For more information, you can read the companion blog post.
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Although I will never part with actual paper portfolios, Lyndsey has a different take. This year she is creating amazing digital portfolios for free using google docs. Here are her insturctions.
A portfolio contains work samples that are representative of where a child is at a particular time. It clearly shows development as it continues throughout the school year. A portfolio is an effective assessment tool that authentically documents a child's progress and serves as a great reporting tool as well.
Memory books are also a great tool to keep "favorite" school memories alive. We have merged the memory book idea and included it as part of the portfolio system.
This product has been built for your flexibility. There are portfolio covers and binder end tags provided for all grades Pre-K, K and 1st. There is also a black and white option to run on colored tag, as colored ink is generally at a premium.
The product is then divided into sections: Beginning of the year essentials, month by month work samples, pages to use throughout the year to document memories, and an end of the year section.
These adorable "What I Want To Be: Career Hats," are ready to layer on top of students pictures. They can be used for portfolio pages, writing prompts, journals, bulletin board displays and more. The set includes 45 plus hats and more will be added as they are requested. All are available in color with labels, color without labels, and in black and white. They are available in png. format for easy layering. These are available for commercial use when credit is given for this original work.
A portfolio often includes pictures, art projects, and monthly work samples in writing and handwriting (see our portfolio/memory book template for ideas and masters). To provide a more complete body of work that highlights the accomplishments of your students, it is necessary to also include math and science work samples. To get our Portfolio Basics check here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Creating-a-Portfolio-Keepsake-Measuring-Growth-One-Sample-at-a-Time-252121
The pages in this math and science portfolio packet are designed to be used in conjunction with books and other activities that support your theme or unit of study. They include reports, worksheets, or examples of what has been accomplished or learned. These portfolio pages can serve as culminating activities or work samples. They represent what the student can do independently or with little guidance at a particular time. They include the following twenty math and science portfolio pages:
A portfolio is a sampling of information relating to a child's developmental progress in a school setting. A portfolio contains work samples that are representative of where a child is at a particular time. It clearly shows development as it continues throughout the school year. A portfolio is an effective assessment tool that authentically documents a child's progress and serves as a great reporting tool as well. Memory books are also a great tool to keep "favorite" school memories alive. We have merged the memory book idea and included it as part of the portfolio system. The product is then divided into sections: Beginning of the year essentials, month by month work samples, pages to use throughout the year to document memories, and an end of the year section. And has included templates for writing, art, math, science and more!
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Developmentally Appropriate Practice: An Interview with Megan Randazzo
Jul 08, 2016
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: An interview with Megan Randazzo
Today we have an interview with Megan Randazzo about DAP, or developmentally appropriate practice. Megan is an Achievement Coach in Canyons School District. She has been in education for 11 years and has a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education and a Master's Degree in Special Education. She also works as a designer and facilitator for the Elementary ELA Department at the Utah State Office of Education.
You can find out more about the class she teaches here.
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Homework
Jul 01, 2016
Homework
Kindergarten Kiosk
Today Mom and I discuss the controversial and heated topic of homework. Mom talks about how she developed homework that is purposeful and strategic in helping parents as their child's first, and most important, teacher.
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Flexible Seating: An Interview with Greg Smedley-Warren
Jun 25, 2016
Flexible Seating: Interview with Greg Smedley-Warren
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In this episode we have the chance to interview Mr. Greg from The Kindergarten Smorgasboard for some great tips on how to use flexible seating in your classroom!
Greg Smedley-Warren has been teaching for 10 years. He received his bachelors degree from Indiana University and received my ELL certification from David Lipscomb University. At the beginning of his career he spent two summers teaching in Ecuador which only helped to fan the flames of his passion for teaching. In 2015 he was selected as Teacher Of The Year by his peers. He also has a weekly show on the I Teach TV Network. He enjoys blogging, creating curriculum and resources for his classroom, and conducting professional development sessions to help teachers around the world make their classrooms a more fun, effective and interactive places to teach. When he is not in the classroom, blogging and doing all things teach, he enjoys spending time with his family. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his husband (known as The Mister on his blog) and their dogs, Butters and LuLu.
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Guided Reading
Jun 17, 2016
Guided Reading
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Today Mom and I discuss how she conducts her guided reading lessons at the beginning of the school year. To find out more about guided reading, visit our informational page. We also share Sara Ann's use of play in her classroom.
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Play: Interview with Kristi Mraz
May 28, 2016
Play: An Interview with Kristin Mraz
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Today we have an interview with Kristi Mraz to tell us how to make our classrooms more joyful, exciting, and playful!
Kristi teaches Kindergarten in the New York City Public schools. In addition to writing and teaching, she consults in schools across the country and as far away as Taiwan. She primarily supports teachers in early literacy, play, and inquiry based learning. On the off chance she has free time, you'll find Kristi reading on a couch in Brooklyn with her dog and her husband. You can follow all of her adventures on twitter @MrazKristine or on her blog: kinderconfidential.wordpress.com.
We also share a teaching experience from Allison Hogan, who has taught her class, through playful inquiry, how to be producers and consumers, and then watched them extend the learning at recess as they exchanged sticky note artwork for sticks and rocks. Here are some pictures of the work from Allison's classroom:
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Setting Up Learning Centers
May 21, 2016
Setting Up Learning Centers
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In this episode, Mom discusses the method she uses for setting up fun and engaging learning centers (after trying every other method on Pinterest). Plus, we talk about how teaching should meet the needs of the whole child, no matter how you set up your day. You can see how her classroom has been set up for centers by watching the following video:
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Interview with Palma Lindsay of KFUNdamentals
May 13, 2016
Palma Lindsay of KFUNdamentals
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Today we have an interview with Palma Lindsay of KFUNdamentals! Palma is a kindergarten teacher who has stayed on the cutting-edge of educational research and technology throughout her 37-year classroom career. She has taught grades K-8, served as a mentor to new teachers, and shares her fun ideas in her innovative blog which is jam-packed with new and fresh ways to keep the FUN in the FUNdamentals.
Palma discusses in depth her simple plan for making guided reading work in the classroom. She shares some great tips, ideas, and suggestions that are sure to help you plan a great guided reading block that will be fun and enriching for your classroom!
For more information, here are links to the resources mentioned in the podcast:
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The End of the School Year
May 07, 2016
The End of the School Year
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Today we talk about the end of the year and Mom gives everyone her secret to walking out the door on the last day with everything ready and organized.
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It's Parent Teacher Conference time, so today we're going to talk about how we get ready, how we get through it, and what the most important things are to discuss. Also, we go on a tangent about food. Apparently, we were hungry.
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Oral Language
Apr 02, 2016
Oral Language
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Guess what? Mom just got new students, and they need help with oral language. So that's what we're discussing today! How do we support language acquisition and why is it so important? Also, what happens when you teach a Minecraft obsessed student about the moon?
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The Science Center
Mar 19, 2016
The Science Center
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Today we're going to talk about the kindergarten science center. Kindergarten children love science. It's a great way to engage them in the classroom through their natural curiosity about the world around them. We'll talk about some of the science centers we've done and what we set out for the kids to explore. What's your favorite way to engage your students with science?
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Young children need to build stamina in order to work on complex tasks such as writing, reading, and mathematics. Today we discuss how to build stamina, as well as the fact that my kids clearly don't have it.
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Today I try to help T. solve an open ended math problem, which turns out to be super frustrating for him, and Mom and I talk about more math concepts like: rigor, magnitude, number relationships, and part/whole relationships.
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Early Math Concepts
Feb 20, 2016
Early Math Concepts
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Today Mom makes me do the talking as we discuss the very earliest concepts in mathematics that children need to develop in order to be successful in counting, logic, and number sense. We will discuss rote counting, one-to-one correspondence, conservation of number, cardinality, and hierarchal inclusion.
If you would like to learn more about early math skills, here are some great resources:
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Rhyming
Feb 04, 2016
Rhyming
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Nursery rhymes are a very important tool for teaching the pre-reading skill of rhyming. Kathy and Lyndsey discuss how parents and teachers can use nursery rhymes, as well as the steps to provide remediation for students who are having trouble rhyming.
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This thematic unit, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, is strategically linked to academic Core Standards. It is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, worksheets, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Table of Contents:
Shared Reading Activities
Mother Goose Rhymes: Saying or Singing Nursery Rhymes
Nursery Rhymes: Sequencing Nursery Rhymes
Hey Diddle Diddle Pocket Chart Activity
Literacy Activities
Mother Goose Mix-up: Building Working Memory
Humpty Dumpty Rhymes: Matching Rhymes
Blind Mice Chase: Identifying Letters
Mary Goes To School: Using Preposition Words
Mary's Letters: Tracing Letters A-Z
Little Lost Lambs: Hunting For Alphabet Letters
Math Activities
Little Bo Peep's Sheep: Counting Objects to Match Numbers
Under The Haystack: Identifying Shapes
Nursery Rhyme Patterns: Naming and Creating Patterns
Hey Diddle Diddle Numbers: Identifying Number Names
This packet includes activities to help your students understand the concept of rhyming. The lessons vary in style and format. Some lessons are scripted, others are designed for independent practice. Some lessons can be used with small groups while others can be completed with a large group. All lessons can be adapted to support struggling students or to challenge high-achieving students. The unit is organized into 19 lessons to be spread out during 7 weeks. Many of the Teach Me To Read Units are meant to be taught in tandem, following the learning to read timeline. Here is the link for the syllable unit: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Teach-Me-To-Read-Syllables-833730 Table of Contents Week 1 Day 1: Nursery Rhyme Time Week 1 Day 2: The Hungry Duck -------------------------------------- Week 2 Day 1: Buggy Rhymes Week 2 Day 2: Apple Tree Rhymes -------------------------------------- Week 3 Day 1: Web Treasures Week 3 Day 2: Roll and Rhyme Halloween (or any season) Week 3 Day 3: Halloween Rhyme Time -------------------------------------- Week 4 Day 1: Picture Pairs Week 4 Day 2: Rhyming Flags Week 4 Day 3: Turkey Lurkey Rhymes -------------------------------------- Week 5 Day 1: Rhyme Me a River Week 5 Day 2: Le Revelillon Week 5 Day 3: To The North Pole -------------------------------------- Week 6 Day 1: The Lost Mitten Week 6 Day 2: Planes Trains and Everything Else Week 6 Day 3: Match a Rhyme -------------------------------------- Week 7 Day 1: Rhyming Sunglasses Week 7 Day 2: Home Tweet Home Week 7 Day 3: T-Shirt Twins
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Phonological Awareness
Jan 28, 2016
Phonological Awareness
Today we try out Podcasting. Join us as we discuss phonological awareness: it's history and it's components, and how an understanding of phonological awareness can help us teach reading more effectively and systematically. Also, Kathy speaks way too much pig latin.
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This packet includes activities to help your students understand the concept of rhyming. The lessons vary in style and format. Some lessons are scripted, others are designed for independent practice. Some lessons can be used with small groups while others can be completed with a large group. All lessons can be adapted to support struggling students or to challenge high-achieving students. The unit is organized into 19 lessons to be spread out during 7 weeks. Many of the Teach Me To Read Units are meant to be taught in tandem, following the learning to read timeline. Here is the link for the syllable unit: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Teach-Me-To-Read-Syllables-833730 Table of Contents Week 1 Day 1: Nursery Rhyme Time Week 1 Day 2: The Hungry Duck -------------------------------------- Week 2 Day 1: Buggy Rhymes Week 2 Day 2: Apple Tree Rhymes -------------------------------------- Week 3 Day 1: Web Treasures Week 3 Day 2: Roll and Rhyme Halloween (or any season) Week 3 Day 3: Halloween Rhyme Time -------------------------------------- Week 4 Day 1: Picture Pairs Week 4 Day 2: Rhyming Flags Week 4 Day 3: Turkey Lurkey Rhymes -------------------------------------- Week 5 Day 1: Rhyme Me a River Week 5 Day 2: Le Revelillon Week 5 Day 3: To The North Pole -------------------------------------- Week 6 Day 1: The Lost Mitten Week 6 Day 2: Planes Trains and Everything Else Week 6 Day 3: Match a Rhyme -------------------------------------- Week 7 Day 1: Rhyming Sunglasses Week 7 Day 2: Home Tweet Home Week 7 Day 3: T-Shirt Twins
This packet includes activities to help your students understand the concept of syllables. The lessons vary in style and format. Some lessons are scripted, others are designed for independent practice. Some lessons can be used with small groups while others can be completed with a large group. All lessons can be adapted to support struggling students or to challenge high-achieving students.
The unit is organized into 16 lessons to be spread out during 4 or more weeks.
Blending and segmenting onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words is an important skill to prepare young readers to blend and segment. Teach this skill with confidence by playing these simple games with your students.
Are you looking for some great games that can be used to teach your students or homeschool students how to segment phonemes with fluency, the essential precursor to decoding? You will love this great packet! Helps with your Dibels scores too! Games include: Fingerprint CVC Words The Big Game BAM Boo! Simon Says Segmenting Floating Sounds Ladybug Dance Santa Gets Dressed
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Also available at Teachers Pay Teachers!This packet includes six lessons to help your students understand the concept of phoneme isolation and fulfill Common Core Standard RF.K.2d.
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