Updated March 2026 Teaching addition in kindergarten can feel overwhelming — especially when students are at so many different levels. Some are still counting every object one by one. Others are ready to write number sentences. And if we move too quickly to equations, students may just memorize without truly understanding what addition means. Over…
I’m linking up with Farley at Oh Boy It’s Farley for her monthly currently link-up! LISTENING: This is my current favourite song! If you haven’t heard it yet you can check it out on YouTube by clicking here. LOVING: Last month we sorted the crayons into these clear cups instead of having bins of crayons…
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…
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