Hi friends! Have you recently come across the term heart words and wondering what they are? Or maybe you’re an early SoR adopter and have been teaching irregular high frequency words this way for a few years now! I first learned about heart words when I started my SoR learning journey a few years ago….
Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to reinforce friendship, kindness and love in a Kindergarten classroom! Scroll through this post if you need ideas for Valentine’s day centers for Kindergarten that will keep your students busy and engaged while also strengthening their fine motor, literacy and math skills! 1. Build & Trace Valentine’s Day Words…
Hi friends! Today I’m rounding up some of my favourite winter themed centre ideas for Kindergarten to hopefully help you with your January planning! Let’s dive in 🙂 1. Arctic TOOBS Small World Play Centre (Freebie) This is one of my favourite winter centres and always a hit with my classes too! I bought this…
Hi friends! Like many of you Christmas is my favourite holiday and a favourite of many of our students! High interest typically means high engagement so I love incorporating Christmas themes into our centres when I can do it in a hands on, meaningful way that supports their learning! I hope you are able to…
I love planning fun Halloween activities because our students are typically so excited for Halloween and the themed activities make literacy and math centres extra engaging for them🧡 New to K or just looking for some fresh new ideas? Then keep reading for some of my favourite Halloween themed centre activities for Kindergarten! 1. Give…
Hi friends! Over the years I’ve been asked countless times to share organization ideas for the Kindergarten classroom so I finally decided to do a big blog post about how I’ve organized my classroom in the past! It’s a big topic so I’ve broken them down into different categories. Read them all or scroll to…
Hi friends! Happy teacher appreciation week! I hope you are shown extra appreciation this week for all of the hard work you put into your classrooms♡ As a Kindergarten parent now myself, I knew I wanted to do something small to show my appreciation for the two wonderful educators that T has. Honestly I cannot…
Hi friends! My 2 boys (3.5 and almost 6) are both super into space right now and many of you have told me that your students are really interested in space too (many student’s interest sparked by the recent solar eclipse!) so I decided to round up my favourite space books, videos and share some…
Hi there! I have an old blog post about how I teach CVCe or VCe words in Kindergarten (you can see that post if you are interested here: https://apinchofkinder.com/2016/04/super-e-activities-for-cvce-words.html) but I thought I’d write an updated post since I recently updated my VCe Centres resource and added a ton of new activities! First, I always start…
Hi there! Have your students mastered CVC words and some CVCC/CCVC words? It may be time to move on digraphs! What is a Digraph? A digraph is when 2 letters make one sound. There are consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs, but in Kindergarten typically only the consonant digraphs are introduced so we will be focusing…
I love sharing lessons and activities that have worked well in my Kindergarten classroom to provide you with engaging ideas and to help you cut down your planning time!
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