Looking for simple, hands-on alphabet centre ideas you can use all year long? These Kindergarten alphabet centres are perfect for helping students practise letter names, letter sounds, beginning sounds, fine motor skills, and letter formation in a playful, developmentally appropriate way. I like keeping a few alphabet centres in my literacy rotation throughout the year…
A question I often get is “How do plan your program?” It takes me a while to answer that question because there is so much to take into consideration when planning! Today I want to share with you some of the templates I use to plan our program. First off this is my schedule for…
Hi friends! I love when other people post about their classroom set-up so today I thought I would show you ours! This is the first year that I am in the same room as the year before. We had a set-up that worked well so we kept it very similar for now. Here is a…
I’m linking up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching to share five things from my week! Brrr it was COLD this week! We were at almost at -30 with the wind chill on Wednesday! Since we couldn’t go outside to play in the snow my ECE had them play with these “snowballs” instead! They turned…
For the last two weeks we have been knee deep in everything pumpkin! First we showed them the pumpkins we brought in and recorded our schema. I copied this pumpkin chart from The First Grade Parade. Here are some of the pumpkin books we read… (Pumpkin, Pumpkin is a great one for the life cycle…
*If you want to see what I did for 2D Shapes in 2015 click here!* Week 3 and 4 was all about 2D shapes in math! I like starting with 2D shapes because it is something that most of the kids already know and feel successful about. Here is the plan I made to keep…
This was our first full week of Kindergarten and our focus was names! I want all of the students to know each other (and their own!) names well so I decided to start the year by focusing on names. We started our “special helper” routine. Each day I announce the special helper and this person…
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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