Five for Friday: December 18
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!
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Teaching Length in FDK
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…
Teaching Patterning in FDK – Part 2
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…
Five for Friday: October 16
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…
Teaching 2D Shapes in FDK – Part 2
Hey hey! We have been knee deep in all things 2D shapes these past few weeks! I blogged about this topic in the past but wanted to share some of the new things I did this year. If you would like to see my post from last year you can click here. Here is an…
Teaching Money in FDK
Today I’m popping in to talk about all the money fun we have been having in our class lately! The FDK expectation for money is.. NS1.10 explore different Canadian coins, using coin manipulatives First we started by watching the song Canada in My Pocket by Michael Mitchell. Then we used my coin posters to learn the…
Five for Friday: March 6
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…
Teaching Composing Numbers in FDK
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…
Teaching Decomposing Numbers in FDK
I feel like I haven’t posted about math in so long! I have been teaching math, I promise! 😉 Last week we started decomposing numbers. I started by telling them the learning goal “We are learning to decompose numbers” and then explained that decompose means to take apart. Our success criteria is “I know I…
Fishing Fun! Alphabet & Ten-Frame Matching
Hi guys! I wanted to share a centre that has been super popular in my class lately! They are constantly asking me if it’s open. It is the fishing centre! I filled our sensory table with paper from the paper shredder. Then I printed the fish on coloured cardstock, laminated them and cut them out….
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