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
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
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
Differentiated and Aligned Visual Station Plans and some freebies for St. Pat’s Day
Ahh.... visual plans. I have a love hate relationship with them. I love how easy they make life. Everything I do is here, aligned with differentiating laid out. My administrator LOVES them. It also makes it easy to know what activity by looking. I admit, I'm terrible with names and I can look back at lesson plans from years back and think . . .'what does that mean? or what activity is called that?' This way, I can look and know immediately. But...it's a TON of work. In the past I ... VIEW POST
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
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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