Wow!!! I can't even believe all the great comments and emails I received from my last post. You guys are amazing! And . . . because you ask such great questions, I could easily see I need to do a quick (nothing fancy but to the point) follow up post just to answer questions and get you all that template I've had so many of you request.Firstly many of you wanted this template and so I needed to clean it up a little. You know I often tier by colors so I wrote that in my planning ... VIEW POST
Differentiated Stations Planning Template and Questions Answered!
Chapter 3 and Time for a Freebie!
It's time for my reflections on Chapter 3! I love that we are getting into the nuts and bolts of D5 now. This is the putting it all together, getting organized and making it work . . . all starting to come together little by little. So here's what I came up with while I followed along with Tammy's guiding questions:1. Establish a gathering place for brain and body breaks. (Do you call your gathering place anything special? A few of my teammates did. Annie called ... VIEW POST
Differentiated Planning Sheets For Math and Word Work Stations
These planning sheets are part of a blog post on differentiating math and word work stations which can be found below: http://www.differentiatedkindergarten.com/2012/08/differentiated-math-stations-for.html http://www.differentiatedkindergarten.com/2012/07/differentiated-word-work-and-freebie.html ... VIEW POST
Back To School Panic Time and Something That Could Help Your Own BTS Planning.
I am officially in panic mode for Back To School. Β When you walk into Office Max, Walmart, Target or wherever and this is what you see, it has aΒ tendency to send chills right down even the most seasoned teacher. Β I'm raising my hand to say I'm in terror mode and need to get going on my 'to-do' list. I know none of you could possibly have this problem, but most nights I can't see the top of my kitchen table. Β I have 4 or 5 or 10 projects going on at one time. "Sorry boys, I know ... VIEW POST
Halloween Word Work Planning
I'm scrambling this weekend to get things done. In some ways I see some progress happening with my kinders...we've hit 15 minutes of read to self, listen to reading is rocking and rolling and I have some good systems in place but with such a big class, I'm still tweaking how I want Daily 5 (my Daily 6) to look run once it's completely independent. I don't want too many little bodies at one activity and it's been a bit of an organizational challenge in my little ... VIEW POST
Planning on Valentine’s Word Work Stations and a BIG BIG Sale.
February has arrived and that means that it's time to turn my thoughts from polar animals and snowmen and turn them towards that pink month. The one that my kiddos never want to end. In fact, they love it so much and the month is so short that we're usually utilizing Valentine's activities for the entire month. I have to say, I'm ok with that.So time to say good-bye to my sweet snowmen at night in the hall outside my class. Didn't they do a great job on the snowflakes ... VIEW POST
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