St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect opportunity to add a little extra magic to your Kindergarten classroom! With playful themes like leprechauns, rainbows, and pots of gold, it’s easy to integrate fun, hands-on math and literacy activities that engage young learners☘️ Keep scrolling to see my favourite St. Patrick’s Day centers for Kindergarten that not…
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 Small World Play Centre (Freebie) This is one of my favourite winter centres and always a hit with my classes too! I bought this set…
Hi friends! I’ve been super busy these last couple of weeks. But I had a minute today, so I thought I’d pop in and share some of the things we have been up to in our class! 1. MOTHER’S DAY PORTRAIT GIFT BAGS So originally we were going to make “All About My Mom” books…
Hi friends! Today’s post is super short, but I wanted to share a freebie with you (that you can use tomorrow!) so I decided to still post! 1. SPRING BEGINNING SOUNDS One area of need for many of my kiddos is identifying beginning sounds in words and paying attention to beginning sounds when reading emergent…
Hi friends! I’m sitting down today to share about the inquiry we just wrapped up! When we did our March inquiry brainstorm (I do these when there are no spontaneous wonders to expand on, I just ask the students to tell me everything they are wondering about about and I sort through them and pick…
Hi friends! I’m back to share with you some of the things we have been up to in our classroom this week! 1. CARD MAKING CENTRE So my kids are still OBSESSED with card making ever since we introduced it before Valentine’s Day. Our mailbox is full daily of cards to their friends and family!…
Hi guys! I’m here to share all about our bee inquiry that we just wrapped up in our classroom. It all started when we were learning about where bees go in the winter during our animals in winter inquiry. You can read the blog posts for that inquiry here (part 1) and here (part 2)….
Hi friends! I’m here with another Weekly Round-Up to share what we have been up to this week! 1. BEE INQUIRY: NECTAR/POLLEN TRANSPORT CENTRE Since we are learning about bees during our inquiry time, I set out this nectar transport centre for the students to act out how the bees suck up the nectar, carry…
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