Hi Friends!I hope you are enjoying your summer so far & (if you're as crazy as I am) planning for next school year. I'm not going to lie - I spend all year long thinking of a million different ideas for TPT products that I would love to make if I had the time and now… Continue reading Staying Busy During the Summer
Tag: Kindergarten
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
Mother’s Day
It's almost Mother's day & this year I made my own craft for the kids to do but then found an adorable activity on the blog Teaching with Love and Laughter and I just had to do both.First we read My Mother is So Smart! by Tomie DePaola. If you don't have a copy of this book… Continue reading Mother’s Day
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
Auction Project
Every year our school hosts a Casino Night fundraiser for parents and teachers. It's a really fun night! Everyone gets all dressed up and we have a really nice dinner, drinks, gambling, dancing, etc... One of the biggest "money makers" at Casino Night is our silent auction. The K-4 teachers are supposed to put together… Continue reading Auction Project
Teaching To The Test-Taker 