It is important to work on phonemic awareness in kindergarten and first grade. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and recognize sounds in words. Like breaking apart MMMM-AAAA-TTTT. Each day I spend few minutes working on building those skills with different activities. Here is an activity that I did with my kindergarten class last week as a treat. This… View Post
One of the things I love about teaching kindergarten is that I can use things that they are interested in to create science or social studies thematic units. In reading, we just finished a few weeks talking about real world books/non-fiction books. One of my sweet boys brought a non-fiction train book into the classroom. My kids flipped over it. 🙂… View Post
Over the past year, I have felt like morning work was not always the best fit for the needs of my classroom. While I think morning work can be a great review of skills in the classroom, I had trouble feeling like I was just filling a few minutes that I needed to get lunch count in, wait for tardy… View Post
It is that time of year where we are flooded with classroom reveal pictures. I have to admit, I could literally spend hours looking at someone else’s classroom pictures. I am a bit obsessed with organization. I am always looking for ways to keep myself organized. I wish I was a professional photographer and could show you amazing pictures… but… View Post
You’ve seen the billboards, the magazine ads, and the commercials. We all know that we are supposed to read to our children. However, do you know why it is so important that we read to our children? As an educator, we know we must give purpose to what we are teaching. Otherwise, the students may not see the importance… View Post