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Kindergarten Common Core Assessments: the Complete Package

Kindergarten Common Core Assessments: the Complete Package

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…

five days, five minutes

five days, five minutes

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…

Guided Reading: Space Planning

Guided Reading: Space Planning

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…