This year I have been working with students in the lower grades on foundational reading skills. With each student, I started with a Foundational Reading Skills Assessment to figure out the specific phonemic awareness skills that they needed to review as well as the letter sounds that they needed to work on and then designed… Continue reading Phonics Instruction: Encoding & Decoding
Category: Kindergarten
FAVORITE OCTOBER READ-ALOUDS
Creepy Carrots by Aaron ReynoldsJasper always helps himself to carrots from Crackenhopper field until one day, the carrots start following him. Jasper sees carrots everywhere and gets to a point where he can't stand it anymore! He decides to build a fence around the field so none of the carrots can get out. Jasper’s plan… Continue reading FAVORITE OCTOBER READ-ALOUDS
VIRTUAL Read Alouds for the First Week of School
This week I thought it might be helpful to round up some books and activities that you can use during the first week or two of school! A lot of the books that I found promote Social Emotional Learning, which I know is a big focus as we return from what has been referred to… Continue reading VIRTUAL Read Alouds for the First Week of School
Makeover Madness Continued
Alright, I'm obsessed. I made over one product and now I want to make them all over! Here is my new & improved Kindergarten Progress Report: *I updated the cover to make it more inviting & to provide more information about the product *I edited the page layout to make it easier for teachers to… Continue reading Makeover Madness Continued
TPT Seller Challenge Week 1: Makeover Madness
It's finally Summer!!!!!! I have been on vacation for almost a week now but, as I mentioned in a previous post, I had to jet set to the East Coast for my brother's wedding on our last day of school. The entire wedding weekend was a blast and I didn't have a single second to… Continue reading TPT Seller Challenge Week 1: Makeover Madness
Memory Books
Wow. I have been meaning to post about so many different things these past few weeks and have just been way too busy to sit down and actually do it! We are down to three days of school left which in itself is crazy, hectic, and exhausting, but on top of that I am moving… Continue reading Memory Books
Teaching Writing in Kindergarten
Hello friends! It has been a busy, busy week in Kindergarten. We are finishing up our last Language Arts unit, doing so many tests that I can't even see straight, and trying to have fun with pre-summer activities. Today we finished up our last writing sample of the year and I wanted to share a… Continue reading Teaching Writing in Kindergarten
SIGHT WORDS
Hi there! Today I want to share with you the way that I have been teaching Sight Words in Kindergarten for the past few years. So far in my teaching career I have worked with two different reading programs - Open Court and Journey's Common Core. Both of these programs only require Kindergartners to learn… Continue reading SIGHT WORDS
Subject-Verb Agreement
According to our Journey's Kindergarten Curriculum, I am supposed to be teaching subject-verb agreement this week, however, we do not have any of the resources that go along with the plans, so I had to get a little creative! I made my own little subject-verb agreement unit which includes posters, whole-group pocket chart activities, and… Continue reading Subject-Verb Agreement
Earth Day
This week we celebrated Earth Day in the middle of our "Taking Care of Earth" unit. That worked out pretty nicely...almost like I planned it that way, huh? We spent this and last week learning about the Earth, it's natural resources, and our responsibility to take care of the environment by reducing, reusing, and recycling.… Continue reading Earth Day
Teaching To The Test-Taker 