Hi guys! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 random things from this week! 1. Pinecone Observation Paintings My kids are still loving these water colour observational drawings/paintings. Some of the items we have been looking closely at and painting include pinecones (pictured above) and caterpillars. We often put magnifying…
Hi friends! I’m super excited to share how I taught probability to my class this year! In the past I was always scrambling around or teaching probability here and there. I finally put together a mini unit and it has helped me be much more intentional about how I teach the probability words this year!…
Hi everyone! I’m back today to link up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday and share 5 things from my week. 1. Earth Day Art My teammate shared this awesome idea with us and the kids loved it! To tie in with the reduce-reuse-recycle vocabulary we have been talking about in…
Hi guys! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday to share 5 things from my week! 1. Building Shapes & Figures with Sight Words I got this activity from Coffee Cups & Crayons. I printed sight words on popsicle sticks and set them out with brown clay. I encouraged…
Hi guys! Today I’m sharing my subtraction lesson plans & activities from this year. I hope this can give you some ideas for planning your subtraction unit! Day 1: On the first day we introduce the word “subtraction” and define it as “when you take away from a number and get a smaller number”. I…
*This post has been updated with new photos + freebies on June 10, 2024* Wow the year is flying by! I can’t believe we are working on addition already! Read on to grab some ideas for teaching addition 🙂 Addition Lessons: Day 1: On the first day I just introduce addition and tell them that…
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
We made it! Happy Winter Break 2015!! I’m sharing some of my last week before winter break activities and linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday linky!
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…
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