Let’s countdown to the last day of school! Use this free, editable ABC countdown calendar to plan fun events and inform parents of what you’ve planned for the last 26 days of the school year. The amount of craziness and sheer busyness that accompanies that last few weeks of school is comparable to getting ready…
I’m so pumped to announce that the printable calendar for the 2023-2024 school year is available. This calendar template is my most popular teacher tool – it’s the best! And since it’s a two-page spread calendar, it’s ideal for putting it into your teacher planning binder. Here is the debut of the new 2023-2024 printable…
Make a planning calendar for your teacher planning binder with this free calendar template. This free teacher planning calendar template can easily help you organize and add style to your planning system. Do you like getting organized for the upcoming school year? Or do you need a little help mastering teacher organization? Use this blank…
Stay organized for more than just lesson plans with your teacher planning calendar. If you’ve got this year’s 17-month printable calendar, then you’re set to plan all kinds of things. Here are 5 more ways to use your teacher planning calendar. These are my tips on using it for planning for a maternity sub, college coursework, long-term…
Doing an ABC countdown is a fun and simple way to wind up your school year together. Want to create your own alphabet countdown? I’ve got your back! Here are some sample alphabet countdown calendars and resources to make your own for your classroom. Some end of the year countdowns are printable and ready to…
Two years ago I decided to make a change to my calendar time. It was scary territory and I invited you along for the adventure. What prompted this change? It was about the same time that I started teaching the majority of my day in small groups. I decided to integrate calendar binders for four…
Growing with our kinders throughout the year requires that we modify our day, activities and sometimes routine. I feel slightly squeamish on modifying that last one. When I get into a really good routine, I often find it hard to break from that and “seeing” the potential in creating a new one. This year, I found myself needing…
I’m not sure how else to start off by describing our latest product other than huge. It’s our kindergarten calendar pack. I don’t mean to say that to scare anyone off, but it is unlike anything else I’ve created or know of to be out there in the teaching world. And, I’m even talking about…
Want to find kindergarten-friendly videos that hit the mark in time for learning about Valentine’s Day? Here is a list of teacher-recommended videos for teaching about love, friendship, and the holiday filled with candy hearts. It can be fun to change up our normal routine in the classroom for February (when most teachers sprinkle in a few…
Work on decomposing numbers 11-19 by breaking numbers into groups of tens and ones. Here is a free Valentine-themed printable workmat and matching number cards that you can use with your kindergarten class. Let me show you how to use it, make it and give you some ideas on how to get the most from…
As kindergarten teachers, we do our best to plan lessons, activities, and tasks that help our students learn. While doing this over the internet definitely looks different for distance learning or remote learning – the nature of what we are doing is really still the same. So here is a list of things kindergartners can…
Let’s talk about when you should teach each of the math standards in kindergarten. Your curriculum guide may have it all laid out for you, but if it doesn’t or if you teach using a guided math format you may need to decide this for yourself. To help make this easier – let’s first cover which standards…
Learn how to create a year-long math journal center in kindergarten. Math journals are an excellent way to work on math standards without using worksheets, allow students to show their thinking and learn how to organize written math work. Here’s why and how I created a math journal center that lasted all year long in…
Good morning. I wanted to invite you into a day in the life of… me, a kindergarten teacher… in my classroom. This is also the skeleton of our daily routine and schedule since many of you have asked for it. Please note that our schedule changes every year and I’m not afraid to even change…
Keep your phonics time fresh by building in a phonics video every now and then. Here are 16 phonics videos that are designed for kindergarten-aged students who are learning their letter sounds, learning to read and working on building letter-sound fluency. Most of these videos cover the entire alphabet in one 2-3 minute video but…
A teacher planning binder is the ultimate way to customize lesson planning to your needs and keep everything at your fingertips. Every teacher planning binder deserves a cute cover. Here are four, free printable binder covers. You’ll simply need to print your favorite and slip the cover into your lesson planning binder. While what I…
Make cute end of the year photos for your kindergarten students. Here’s how to photograph, make and print personalized photos for each of the kiddos in your class. It’s fun to do a special thing or two to celebrate the end of the school year. I think this “My Kindergarten Favorites” overlay is a fun…
It’s the end of the school year and it’s time to celebrate the end of kindergarten. Here are free kindergarten diplomas and kindergarten completion certificates that you can download instantly and print. My kindergarten students never actually had a graduation ceremony (with all of the fanfare you might be planning for your own celebration) –…
To teach kindergarten to be independent in classroom routines takes a lot of effort. Here is how I used icons to help teach, reinforce, and get kindergartners to be independent with morning and afternoon routines. If you like this concept – you can get icons free to use in your classroom too. Let me start by…
Are you gearing up for the 100th day of school in kindergarten? I am working here behind the scenes to help you pull off a fun and learning-filled day. I’ve got some freebies to share as a result. It’s my goal on KindergartenWorks to have your back – by helping you keep the beauty in…
It’s the 100th day of kindergarten and time to celebrate! Let’s make some 100th day of school headband crowns to mark the special school day. If you’re like me, then we can marvel at how far our kinders come in the span of 100 school days. It’s fun to add in special 100-themed things throughout…
Think through a solid plan for classroom management for kindergarten. Here’s what makes a good classroom management plan, how to plan rewards and consequences and I’ll share my own classroom management plan with you. Let’s start out by identifying what makes a good classroom management kindergarten plan. That way you can rock your own! What makes…
Whenever we create gifts for parents for holidays like Christmas, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day we like to wrap our presents. This year we are wrapping our holiday calendars them using this cute reindeer brown paper bag design. This is a cute picture tutorial from an idea that I got online. Students to use lunch sized brown…
Planning is a necessity of being a teacher. Here are some of my teacher organization ideas on how I try to make planning simplified and I share my lesson plan organization systems. You can jump right to seeing how I organize my lesson planning below but if you aren’t feeling that teacher planning is actually…