As a kindergarten teacher, I strongly believe in the effectiveness of hands-on learning, particularly through word work or math stations. However, setting up stations that are independent and successful can seem overwhelming. That's why I want to share my six steps to setting up successful math stations each month. By following me throughout the year as I start, tear down, change over, adjust, and differentiate the stations each month, you'll witness the incredible power of this classroom ... VIEW POST
Setting Up Successful Math Stations
Setting Up For A Successful Year Of Daily 5 In Kindergarten
The beginning of the kindergarten year is such a blur. About halfway through it, you try to look back and figure out exactly how it all started. It gets difficult to remember the hard work and organization that it took to get your from there to where you are now, but by remembering the parts that went well and the parts that didn't, you can always improve each year. So I'm trying, desperately to make sure I document these first days of math stations and now Daily 5 Stations so I can adjust ... VIEW POST
Getting them from HERE to THERE…Starting Your Literacy/Daily 5 Stations in Kindergarten
As teachers embarking on the beginning of the school year, we have these visions of how our literacy stations will 'go.' In our mind, we see our students working on meaningful tasks at their level and engaged for the duration of their station time throughout the classroom while we work with a small group of students on particular skills or tasks they need in order to be successful readers. It's good to have these visions of where we want our class to be. . . eventually. But the real question ... VIEW POST
The Reality of The First Day of Math Stations
I'm following up as promised. Last week I gave you some detailed steps on how to set up and organize your stations with my post, Setting Up Math Stations For A Successful Year. This week I wanted to let you know how I introduce them and what the reality of first day math stations actually looked like in my classroom. MAKING THE INTRODUCTION This is probably the question I get most often from teachers. How in the world do you introduce math stations? What's the secret? I can't really ... VIEW POST
Back To School Math Stations Galore-12 Activities To Get Them Ready
Do Math Stations have you wondering where to start and how to keep them going? It's time to change that with hands-on, engaging Math Stations.. Math stations are an essential part of math instruction in kindergarten, allowing students the opportunity to explore, practice and master essential skills in math. These Math Stations from Differentiated Kindergarten are differentiated and build on skills from month to month with familiar activities, games and printables. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Please note: ... VIEW POST
Organizing Daily 5 Literacy Stations in Kindergarten and …a freebie for you.
Daily 5 Literacy Stations!!!! Holy email, you all have a ton of questions, and while I’d love to claim that I’m an expert, I can really only tell you how this works in my own classroom. As some of you know, I do a form of Daily 5 . . . We call it Daily 6 in my classroom. Even though six stations are going on in a given day, students only travel to three in a given day for 20 minutes each. So it looks like this on paper (no this isn’t my lesson plan but it is a good visual – I’ll ... VIEW POST
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