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First Day of School Co-Worker & Student Gift Idea
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First Day of School Co-Worker & Student Gift Idea

ByYukari Sloane September 18, 2015October 19, 2024

Knock, knock…  is anybody there? I’ve been neglecting this little blog of mine! I can’t believe I haven’t posted for over a month and a half!  I was busy over at Designs by Yukari (now closed until next summer) all of August and then B2S prep took over my life! There are lots of new…

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Five for Friday: May 8
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Five for Friday: May 8

ByYukari Sloane May 9, 2015October 19, 2024

Another week down! I’m back to link up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching to share five things from my week! 🙂 and I’m also linking up with Teaching Blog Addict for Freebie Friday. You can find the freebies under 2 and 3. We introduced new play dough mats! These alphabet play dough mats have…

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Five for Friday: May 1
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Five for Friday: May 1

ByYukari Sloane May 2, 2015October 19, 2024

I’m actually linking up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday on a Friday! Yay! Here is a recap of my week 🙂 On Wednesday afternoon our caterpillars arrived! On Monday I told the kids that we had special visitors coming to our classroom and I had the students make predictions based…

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Five for Friday: March 26
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Five for Friday: March 26

ByYukari Sloane March 28, 2015October 19, 2024

Aaaand that’s a wrap for another week! Here we go again with another Five for Friday! I finally got my BINGO products listed in my TpT store! Here is a picture of my differentiated number ID bingo (the set with numbers 11-20). The number bingo also includes 1-10 and 21-30. I print them on different…

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Five for Friday: March 20
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Five for Friday: March 20

ByYukari Sloane March 20, 2015October 19, 2024

Hi guys… I’m back!  and joining Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday! Back from where? If you follow me on Instagram you might have seem some of my photos from my week in Maui, Hawaii already! We had such an amazing time!! First to recap the food: JAPENGO: We both thought…

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Five for Friday: March 6
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Five for Friday: March 6

ByYukari Sloane March 7, 2015October 19, 2024

I’m back for Five for Friday! Visit Kacey’s blog, Doodle Bug’s Teaching to link up too! On Wednesday we had our superintendent visit the school. She came by to visit our class with my principal and… she started to cry! I went over to ask her if everything was ok and she said that she…

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Five for Friday: February 27
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Five for Friday: February 27

ByYukari Sloane February 27, 2015October 19, 2024

I am finally linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday again! Click on the image below to go to the linky and join up too 🙂 Did you notice my new blog design? I am IN LOVE! Let’s forget the other design ever existed ok? lol This one was designed…

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Teaching Composing Numbers in FDK
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Teaching Composing Numbers in FDK

ByYukari Sloane February 27, 2015October 19, 2024

My kids have been rocking math lately! I am so impressed by their ability to use the language that I teach them. We had a VP walk through our class a few weeks ago and she sat down with one of my students and asked her what she was doing.  She replied “Oh I’m decomposing…

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We are 100 Days Smarter in FDK!
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We are 100 Days Smarter in FDK!

ByYukari Sloane February 19, 2015October 19, 2024

On Tuesday we celebrated our 100th day of school! I was inspired by Cara from The First Grade Parade and went  all out this year!! First of all I couldn’t have done it without my wonderful placement student. She is just the best you guys. I’m so so lucky to have her helping me out,…

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Student Gift: Valentine You Knock My Socks Off!
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Student Gift: Valentine You Knock My Socks Off!

ByYukari Sloane February 4, 2015October 19, 2024

Can you believe it’s February already? Where did January go? Not that I’m complaining or anything but it really flew by! Valentine’s Day is already next week! We are having our Valentine’s Day celebration on the 12th since the 13th is a PA Day and the 14th is a Saturday this year. Here is what…

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Next Newsletter Exclusive Freebie👀✨
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If you’re on my email list, the March Newsletter will land in your inbox tomorrow morning at 7:00AM EST and you’ll get 5 of these “Ask and Tally” printables for FREE! Not signed up yet? Comment EMAIL and I’ll send you a link to the sign up form🤍
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I’ve had a few requests to make non themed versions of the surveys in my older spring and summer packs.. then last week an old co-worker and friend messaged me saying her students LOVED the spring surveys and were asking to do more (music to my ears☺️) and asked if I could create some for her. I already had a mini tally unit on my to do list so I bumped it up to this week and I’m sending 5 of these “Ask & Tally” pages to my email list✨
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There will be a mini unit coming with lesson plans, more “Ask & Tally” options (with an editable version😉) and tally mark centres too! If you have my printable year long bundle it will be added there as a free update😉 More info coming soon…❤️
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Can you believe it’s less then 2 weeks until Mar Can you believe it’s less then 2 weeks until March Break? After receiving many requests to create a similar activity mini book like the popular “Winter Break Challenge”, I created this “Spring Break Challenge” a couple of years ago🌼
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I love these (and from the reviews so do you!) because…
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✨ It’s a simple no prep activity to send home that works on crucial Kindergarten literacy and math skills
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✨ You can edit the parent letter page and the BINGO page (an editable PowerPoint file is included!) to make it just right for your class❤️
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✨ The BINGO page encourages socio-emotional skills, family time and/or getting outside☀️ 
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Want to grab these for your class?
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🌼 Comment BREAK and I’ll DM you the link 🌼
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Comment ADDITION for the link to the blog post whe Comment ADDITION for the link to the blog post where you can grab the addition freebies✨🤍
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In our class we typically start learning about addition in March! If you’re planning to teach addition next too, swipe through for some centre ideas! (the last 3 are freebies on my blog✨)
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Need lesson ideas or want to grab the freebies? Comment ADDITION and I’ll send a clickable link to my “Teaching Addition in Kindergarten” blog post❤️
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If you have been waiting for the next pack in the If you have been waiting for the next pack in the new holiday and seasonal centre pack series.. spring centres are ready!
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I know most have us have lots of snow and it doesn’t feel like spring is coming anytime soon but snag it today and tomorrow until 2PM EST at 50% off and be ready for when the weather warms up🌷✨
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Comment SPRING if you want a clickable link sent to you via DM😉
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As promised! My popular Pink Shirt Day FREEBIE got As promised! My popular Pink Shirt Day FREEBIE got a refresh🩷✨
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Fonts and clip art has been updated throughout plus I’ve added some new stuff including:
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🩷 New lessons (with read aloud suggestions and links to online read alouds) and student thinking recording slides (in pdf and Google Slides so you can project and write on them if you have a SMARTBoard!)
🩷 2 New Writing Pages
🩷 Pink Shirt Day Shirt Design Ideas Chart
🩷 Pink Shirt Day Mini Book
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Pink Shirt Day (Wednesday, February 26 this year) is the perfect opportunity to explore important topics such as showing kindness everyday and being an upstander. I hope this FREEBIE makes that easier for you🩷
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Want the link? Comment PINK and I’ll send you a clickable link via DM💕
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✨ Download the preview to get the 11 mini book f ✨ Download the preview to get the 11 mini book for FREE! Comment ELEVEN for the link✨
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Need something for your math small group who’s ready for teen numbers? Here’s a simple way to work on identifying, printing (both the numeral and the number word) and creating sets for teen numbers!
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Lots of options for most pages, making it easy to differentiate for the different abilities/needs in your room🤍
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Want to try a booklet before you buy? Download the preview and get the 11 booklet for FREE✨ Comment ELEVEN and I’ll send you the link via DM😉
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Do you have students who observe Ramadan and/or ce Do you have students who observe Ramadan and/or celebrate Eid al-Fitr and need an easy way to incorporate learning about this important month for your students and families of Muslim faith?
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Then check out my Ramadan pack! It includes:
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🌙 Simple but clear lesson plans that teaches about Ramadan and Eid, book suggestions and follow-up anchor charts and activity printables
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🌙 Hands on literacy and math activities that incorporate Ramadan and Eid themes while also reviewing a variety of Kindergarten expectations
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Want the link? Comment RAMADAN and I’ll send you a clickable link via DM💜
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Anyone working on composing numbers next? . A grea Anyone working on composing numbers next?
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A great unit to bridge numbers to 10 and addition, the composing numbers unit teaches the basics of addition (putting two numbers together to make a bigger number) before adding in the addition symbols!
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Working on decomposing and composing numbers and solidifying their understanding of numbers to 10 builds a strong foundation for addition and subtraction later on❤️ 
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Swipe through to see some of my favourite, simple but engaging composing numbers centres if you need ideas! Want the link for the unit? Comment COMPOSING and I’ll send you a clickable link via DM✨
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