It's springtime, and that means kindergarten round-up in my neck of the woods. Our district takes four full days to meet, greet and screen all the incoming "5 before November 1st" kinders for the fall. Michigan recently passed a new age cut off for kindergarten. In the past, it was 5 before December 1st, but, over the next several years, that cut off birth date will continue to be pushed back a month at a time until the new cut off day is September 1st. This year's ... VIEW POST
Roundin’ up next year’s kinders!
Kindergarten Daily Schedule
I often get emails asking about my kindergarten daily schedule. For the longest time, I couldn't imagine how it would be helpful to other teachers. However, I recently asked my Facebook followers about their own schedules and realized just how crucial it is for teachers, especially those new to teaching kindergarten or transitioning to a full-day schedule. The responses I received were so varied, it really hit home how useful it might be to share my own example of a typical kindergarten daily ... VIEW POST
Differentiated Kindergarten’s 100 Days Smarter and It’s Time to Start Thinking Green!
There are days when I thought we weren’t going to make it, but we finally did! We are now a 100 Days Smarter for the 2013-2014 school year. Despite many snow days which delayed it from happening (only 8 for my district so far), 100s Day has come and gone. As I like to tell my boys, we are now officially on the slippery downhill slope of the school year. Yippeee! But really, who doesn't love 100s day? All the celebrating and super charged fun are just more reasons to love kindergarten. ... VIEW POST
Love letters and a discount! Feeling the love!
Somewhere in the depths of every teachers' closet, attic or basement storage unit lies a box very much like this one. This, my friends, is my very own 'gratitude box.' It's that box you have that is crammed full of sniggles of paper, crayon portraits, and teacher "love letters" written by 5 and 6 year old hands. In an occupation where the fruits of your labor do not generally produce a finished product for many many years, where your hard work, long hours and ... VIEW POST
Love to Plan Differentiated and Aligned Valentine’s Math Stations
Three snow days in one week have left me ample time to get my math stations ready for February and the month of Valentine's fun. So between building forts, doing laundry, picnics in the basement and all day board game tournaments, here are the activities and plan that I came up with for this months math stations. I had a couple extra left over that I'll be using in my math learning center, so I'm feeling pretty confident . . . for now.Here are the plans. I decided to try ... VIEW POST
Kindergarten Daily 5 Book Study: Chapter One
Hey, I hope everyone has their book and has decided to join my pal, Tammy, over at Live, Love, Laugh Everyday In Kindergarten as she leads us through our Daily 5 Book Study just for kindergarten.Tammy offered up some guiding questions in her initial post about chapter one. I hope you had a chance to down load her guide and take advantage of her questions to guide you through our first chapter. The interesting thing that occurred to me as I read through them were that they were the same ... VIEW POST
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