One of the best parts of our day is when we get out play centers. I get so many questions about how we organize this time of our day, what types of materials we use, and what my students actually …
How to Organize and Manage Play Centers
Word Problems with Monthly Crafts
Even in the beginning of the year, I practice word problems with my kindergarten students. We haven’t begun “officially” learning about addition or subtraction yet, but the process of reading through a problem, acting out the steps, and figuring out …
Making Signs for Authentic Writing
Most kindergarten teachers can relate to finding yourself at a point in the school year when writing feels like a chore to your students. After all of the work you’ve done together with using sentence stems, stretching out words, adding …
3 Simple Play-Based Phonics Activities
Distance learning forced us to get creative with the ways that we’ve always taught those foundational skills like letter identification and sounds. Even though I try to incorporate play-based activities into my typical instruction, I knew that it was extra …