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Find helpful tools to organize, think and teach your best in kindergarten.

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Sunlight Sight Word Catchers - Pokey Pin Activities for Kindergarten

Sunlight Sight Word Catchers - Pokey Pin Activities

Make a year-long pokey pinning literacy center with easy to use sight word templates for kindergarten. Grab these ...

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3 Things to Do if You Mentor a First Year Teacher

3 Helpful Things to Do if You Mentor a First Year Teacher

Connect, share and rock being a mentor to a first year teacher. Here are 3 things I think are helpful to starting and ...

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Free Emergency Sub Plans for Kindergarten

Free Emergency Sub Plans for Kindergarten

There comes a time we all need emergency sub plans for kindergarten. Here are free beginning of the year emergency ...

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For the teacher - Quick Reminder Bracelets

A Teacher's Simple Solution: Quick Reminder Bracelets

There is so much fun that goes on any given school year. Here is a fun way to remind parents of special school events, ...

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Money Collection Envelopes make it easy to collect money in Kindergarten

Money Collection Envelopes for Kindergarten - This is Genius

Collecting money in kindergarten just got easy! How to collect and track money for special events, field trips and more ...

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5 Nifty Ways to Use Your Teacher Planning Calendar

Stay organized for more than just lesson plans with your teacher planning calendar. If you've got this year's 17-month ...

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Frosted: HUGE Unit of Frozen Winter Math and Reading Fun

Frosted: HUGE Unit of Frozen Winter Math and Reading Fun

It's here! FROSTED - It's a HUGE kindergarten unit of frozen winter math and reading fun! This unit has 14 ...

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frozen themed teen numbers frosted race game

Frosted Frozen Compose Teen Numbers Game

Decompose and compose teen numbers like champs in your classroom with this fun, frozen, wintery game. This printable ...

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Making 5 Fluency Ideas and Games

Making 5 is one of the basic and fundamental ideas that come from the Common Core standards in kindergarten. Students ...

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Dollar tree teacher purchases worth buying

17 {more} Classroom Things Worth Purchasing From the Dollar Tree

I find myself, a kindergarten teacher as a regular in my local Dollar Tree shops finding good buys for my classroom. You ...

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How to create smart year long literacy centers kindergarten

How to Create Smart Literacy Centers that Last All Year

Literacy centers can be a blessing or a pain. I think it all hinges on the design, organization and effectiveness behind ...

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21 Classroom Things Worth Purchasing From the Dollar Tree - I am using some of these!

21 Classroom Things Worth Purchasing from the Dollar Tree

As a teacher I set off to the Dollar Tree regularly in order to find good buys for my classroom. Here are my ideas on ...

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Free Describing 3D Shapes Bingo Game for Kindergarten

Free Describing 3D Shapes Bingo Game for Kindergarten

Work on identifying 3D shapes or describing 3D shapes with a free printable bingo game for kindergarten. Here is a ...

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How to make a teacher planning binder - I can totally make one of these

How to Make a Teacher Planning Binder {Binder Basics}

Teacher planning is part of what we do as teachers to create lessons and plan for students. These are the key items I ...

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Staff Meeting Notes Paper

Staff Meeting Notes Paper

A staff meeting is part of the teacher's job... whether we like it or not. Keep everything straight coming out of a ...

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Better Sleep When You're a Teacher

5 Ways to Get Better Sleep When You're a Teacher

Teacher dreams. Teacher nightmares. Living out the classroom scene while you're sleeping is hardly restful... Here are ...

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The Kindergarten Teacher's Guide to a Quick After School Checklist :: KindergartenWorks

The Teacher's Guide to a Quick After School Checklist

Developing a routine to get yourself out the classroom door at the end of day can be handy. Here is a routine - or a ...

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13 Easy to Use K-2 Simple Computer Lesson Plan Templates: KindergartenWorks

Easy K-2 Simple Computer Lesson Plan Templates

Create computer lesson plans for k-2. I'm so excited to share my latest product line with you - and it's ...

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How to Digitize Your Teacher Files (and Why You'd Want To)

A little bit of tranquility set in when I digitized my files. I added bonus storage with my newly emptied filing ...

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Ending Sounds Activities for Small Groups

6 Free Ending Sounds Activities for Small Groups

Practice ending sounds while teaching kindergarten readers in small groups. Here are my favorite free ending sounds ...

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Quick Tools to Teach Sorting in Kindergarten

12 Quick Tools to Teach Sorting in Kindergarten

Let's teach kindergarteners how to sort with some creative ideas that are easy to implement. Here are sorting ...

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Top 11 Recommended Kindergarten Professional Development Books: KindergartenWorks

Top 11 Recommended Kindergarten Professional Development Books

Get the good recommendations for kindergarten professional development books to read over the summer from fellow ...

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Introducing Cool Kindergarten - fun math games | abc games | kids games online

I'm so excited to tell you about my new website that's kinder-friendly and designed for busy teachers! It's called Cool ...

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4 Must-Have Teacher Organization Printables

4 Must-Have Teacher Organization Printables

Teacher organization doesn't happen by accident! Here is a set of my favorite and newest teacher organizational tools. ...

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This is a perfect snapshot to send them home with. Photograph each student proudly showing their status as a future first grader!

End of the Year Printable Photo Props

Taking adorable photos at the end of the school year just got easier! I've made some adorable printables to celebrate ...

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Free Printable Poem for Teacher Appreciation

If You Didn't Hear This From Anyone Today (Teacher Appreciation Poem)

Teacher appreciation is something I value. Here is a teacher appreciation poem that I created in honor of teacher ...

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This is How We Roll: Kindergarten, Volume 1

This is How We Roll in Kindergarten

Oh, how I love the things kindergartners say and do. There so many joyful {and hilarious} moments that are unique to ...

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Creating an Organized Guided Reading Binder - 4 Steps

Creating an Organized Guided Reading Binder - 4 Steps

A guided reading binder helps me keep lesson plans and guided reading group notes both organized and at ...

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Free Beginning Numbers Roll and Color Dice Game

Playing fun math games is one of my key strategies in giving kindergartners the time to practice key skills. Here ...

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7 Free Fonts - From One Teacher to Another

7 Free Fonts - From One Teacher to Another

Free fonts help me create my classroom resources. Here are 7 free teacher fonts that I've made, all collected in one ...

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How to Set Up a Year-Long Math Computer Center

Set up and maintain a computer center in your classroom to support your math teaching. Let me show you how to set up a ...

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Instant Homework - Vacation Memory Book - KindergartenWorks

Instant Homework - Vacation Memory Book

Creating homework that is a vacation memory book just became as easy and hitting the print button! This vacation memory ...

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First Day of School Photo Props

First Day of School Photo Props

In kindergarten, we celebrate the beginning of the school year just like we do at the end of the ...

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top 7 back to school products from KindergartenWorks

What I Recommend for Back to School

Wondering where to begin in your back to school shopping? Here are my top 7 recommendations for KindergartenWorks ...

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Rainbow Writing Letter Book

Rainbow Writing Letter Book - What I Use the First 26 Days of Kindergarten

Be prepared for the first month of school with this easy-to-use handwriting booklet for kindergarten. Here is how and ...

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KindergartenWorks :: welcome to school teacher must-have posters

Back to School Night Posters

Welcoming students and their families back to school is now just a click away from being simplified! I made some welcome ...

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Back to School Checklist for a Teacher {22 things + 3,000 more}

Ever feel this way about back to school time as a teacher? I know that I do. Which is why I'm totally writing this ...

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Setting Kindergarten Goals the Easy Way

Setting Kindergarten Goals the Easy Way

There is extreme value in teaching kindergarten students what you expect them to learn. Teaching expectations for ...

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How to Collect Student Information Before the School Year

How to Collect Student Information Before Kindergarten

Collect what you need to know at-a-glance from kindergarten parents so that you can quickly get to know your new ...

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Kindergarten Parent "Handbook" Brochure :: KindergartenWorks

Kindergarten Parent "Handbook" Brochure

Kindergarten round up and registration is a great time for teachers within a school building to connect with new ...

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round 'em up! {Kindergarten Parent Brochure Printable} :: KindergartenWorks

Round 'Em Up! Kindergarten Parent Brochure

Kindergarten round up and registration is a great time for teachers and schools to connect with parents. This free ...

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Handwriting Mini-Progress Report {Free Printable} Kindergarten - easy communication with parents

Handwriting Print Formation Progress Report {Free Printable}

Assessment in kindergarten is now a regular part of life. Finding ways to fit it in, can be tricky. ...

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Letter Identification and Sound Production Progress Report

Free Letter Identification and Sound Production Progress Report

Assessment in kindergarten is now a regular part of life. Finding ways to fit it in, can be tricky. Finding time to ...

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Kindergarten Pirate Unit - Reading, Writing and Math

It's finally here! The "Pirates Math and Literacy Centers and Small Group Materials" is available. It truly is the best ...

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how to make a math material bead rack {tutorial} - KindergartenWorks

How to Make a Rekenrek {tutorial}

When I began teaching with new math materials, like ten frames, my goal was to improve the number sense of my students. ...

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Free weekly To Do List Template for Teachers - Binder Printable - KindergartenWorks

Teacher Planning Weekly To Do List

What's a teacher to do when her to-do list is outrageous? Here's how I try to streamline super-busy weeks as a teacher ...

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developing phonemic awareness - KindergartenWorks

Developing Phonemic Awareness - 2 Simple and Fun Ideas

Creating readers and writers that can rely on their own phonemic awareness haunches is something we work tirelessly at ...

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KindergartenWorks: Leslie Recommends Dropbox

Why You Should Use Dropbox: A Teacher's Perspective

I wanted to lay down some of my favorite tool recommendations for teachers. My recommendations for things I use on a ...

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