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 …
Teaching in 2020: This isn’t what I expected…
I was having a great year. One of my best years of teaching to date. My students, their families, our student teacher, my coworkers…everything was going so well. But then March 2020 began and everything started to change. I know …