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…
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday and are getting back into the swing of things at school! We had a great holiday 🙂 Both kids didn’t want to go back to school but they have been rotating being sick so one or the other has been home most of the month…
Hi friends! November was a bit busy (good busy but busy) and I couldn’t start a blog post for it in time so here is I’m sharing all of the new stuff I shared over on Instagram and/or Facebook and TPT in this blog post and I’ll also be adding December stuff as they come…
Hi friends! I was playing catch up with the September post, so here is my October recap post! I’ll add things to this post if I share anything else new on Instagram/TPT before the end of October, but I wanted to make sure I posted this before then since the freebie in this post is…
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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