Create your own Swimmy retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Swimmy retell activity based on the book by Leo Lionni to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. It’s one of my favorite literacy centers. In fact, it’s a natural extension of what we do in…
Create your own The Doorbell Rang retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a The Doorbell Rang retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom…
Create your own The Three Little Pigs retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Three Little Pigs retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your…
Create your own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in…
Active kindergarten activities are essential to my literacy center time. Students stay on-task better at our hands-on literacy centers in our classroom like the retell center. This is how I created a Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See retell activity to go in our retell center as an option for students. It’s one…
Create your own The Very Hungry Caterpillar retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Very Hungry Caterpillar retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your…
Create your own Gingerbread Man retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a The Gingerbread Man retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom too….
Create your own Fat Cat retelling activity with this free idea for kindergarten. This is how I created a Fat Cat retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom too. It’s…
Create your own The Little Red Hen retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Little Red Hen retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your…
This year I wanted to be more diligent about teaching various addition strategies as options for my students to explore to solve simple equations. I wanted to emphasize using ten frames, using number lines and a combination of mental math and touch dots. When it came to using the number line, I wasn’t personally as…
Kindergarten common core standards are the curriculum and map by which many kindergarten teachers are teaching their classes. I’ve teamed up with 2 other teachers in my district to create an assessment for every single common core standard and sub-standard. We’ve made it teacher friendly, kindergartner friendly and above all comprehensive. Here’s how the Kindergarten…
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 hope you have a fantastic long weekend and if you are just starting school – a very restful weekend. Gathering inspiration from others and paying it forward, I am sharing a freebie that I created to extend what I used from Fran @Kindergarten Crayons. Her awesome ideas for using the stamps from Target’s dollar…
Literacy centers make our world go around in kindergarten. This is how I made a poetry literacy center to last all year in our kindergarten classroom. I’ll share how I organize, set up, keep it fresh and the common core standards that it practices. I like working smart, and this is one of my literacy centers…
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…
Teach students how to organize their daily folders in kindergarten using a bulletin board. It can be tricky to give keep on top of those gosh-darn flyers from the office, parent notes and daily papers. Plus, we know daily communication is important between parents and their child about the day’s events, and between parents and…
In mentoring beginning teachers, I recommend active ways to reach all the different kinds of learners. By taking roughly 3-5 mins. every day you can teach a focus sight word and use songs to accomplish appealing to the non-traditional learners. (That’s not to say that’s the only word you ever mention or teach in a…
Anyone else feel like organizing never stops? Once you start organizing something, it spills over or borrows a container from something else which inevitably directs your organization destination to never-stops-ville. Okay, so I’m probably being dramatic, and I do love being (or at least feeling) organized, but sometimes I have to make myself stop because it can…
When it comes to keeping writing pieces organized in kindergarten, simplicity is key. I’ve done different ways to keep writing organized over the years and a folder is one of the easiest options to use. Here’s how to make a writer’s workshop folder for kindergarten. In our classroom, we call our writing time – author…