NGSS Science Standards
Mar 31, 2021
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NGSS Science Standards
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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
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Evaluations
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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
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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
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Thematic Teaching
Kindergarten Kiosk
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Thematic Units Bundle
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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
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Increasing Engagement
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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 Planning Ideas and Songs
Sep 22, 2020
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September Ideas
Kindergarten Kiosk
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
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Teaching During a Pandemic! Ideas For The New Normal Possibilities!
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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
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