Here is a short recap on the number line unit we recently explored with the kids. Our expectation for number lines in Kindergarten is: NS 1.1 investigate, using a number line, the idea that quantity is greater when counting forward and less when counting backwards
Hi friends! I’m super excited to share with you how I made graphing in Kindergarten fun and independent this year! Every year my kids find graphing super fun and engaging but teaching JK/SK (that’s Pre-K/K for my American friends) it was always hard to make this an independent centre.
Hi guys! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things from this week with you 🙂 Read on for 2 freebies! CVC Lego I found this lego set at Dollarama last weekend and since my kids love lego and they need practice with hearing sounds in words I made up…
Hi friends! I’m popping in to link up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching to share five things from this week! We started to revamp our writing system this week as a division. I will post more about it when it is up and running but one change I made is going from paper in duotangs…
Hi friends! Today I’m going to share a few things I did in terms of interventions for 2D shapes. I like starting with 2D shapes because it seems to be an easy concept for most students and knowledge of 2D shapes is needed for strands like patterning, sorting etc. However there will always be some…
Hi friends! Today I’m going to post about how I taught measuring length this year. As always here is the unit plan and lessons outlined for easy planning if you want to follow along with my lessons! Click on the image to download it as a pdf for free! I always start my measurement unit…
Hi friends! I’m here to share with you how I taught patterning to my class this year! Click here to see what I did last year. Here is what I planned for whole group lessons: Click on the image above to download my unit plan from google drive. On the first day we introduced patterning…
Hey hey! I’m finally linking up with Kacey @ Doodle Bugs Teaching again for her Five for Friday! It has been way too long but I finally have 5 random photos to share! Here we go 😉 This past Monday was Thanksgiving Day in Canada so we read “The Thankful Book” by Todd Parr and…
Hey hey! We have been knee deep in all things 2D shapes these past few weeks! I blogged about this topic in the past but wanted to share some of the new things I did this year. If you would like to see my post from last year you can click here. Here is an…
Hi friends! I’m so excited to share a project that turned out so well in my classroom! I really wanted the students to have more ownership in our classroom this year and to use resources that we put up on the walls. After discussing this with my ECE we decided to co-create the alphabet and number…
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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