Educating the Whole Child in Kindergarten
This post is filled with ghosts of 100th Day past. My hundredth day isn’t until Thursday but I thought I would look back at the years past to help me plan. Here are some of my favorite activities from previous years. This year I plan to have five stations that students will rotate through. We will pull a few new…
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Y’all! What in the world is going on with January? I feel like it was just 2015 yesterday. Ha! No really, this year just started and it’s already flying by. I’m not going to complain because I am totally enjoying my three day weekend at the moment. I may even take down our Christmas tree today. Yes, you read…
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Are you sitting down? This is so HUGE! I’ve teamed up with 12 amazing bloggers for a giveaway you won’t want to miss. Seriously, brace yourself! How valuable is your time? I don’t know about you, but I need twenty more hour each day to accomplish everything required of teacher/wife/mom me. Well, the teacher me LOVES ESGI because it has literally…
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Play should be a child’s most important “job”. This work has been taken out of so many classrooms as we push kids academically beyond what is developmentally appropriate. Play is necessary for the healthy development of children. Research shows that 75% of the brain is formed after birth. Play stimulates the brain, which is necessary to develop gross motor and…
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Snow em ghee. Hello 2016. People, how did we get here? Is it just me or is this year flying by? Some years I’m totally cool with that but since Grace is a senior I would like to just pump the breaks please. Some days are more than my mama heart can handle. We have been riding the crazy train…
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I really can’t believe it’s already December. Seriously, where has this semester gone? Let’s be honest, these next three weeks are going to fly by. I mean, we have a field trip, holiday party, making gingerbread-man cookies, elf on the shelf, parent gifts, report card testing, oh…and TEACHING! Teaching is my FAVORITE! I’m copying, prepping and trying to…
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Welcome to MONSTER SANDWICH! One of the fun things my team does before the Thanksgiving holiday is have a Monster Sandwich experience with our classes. We are having fun making text connections. I never thought I would sit and share a six foot sandwich with everything thing on it (sometimes including pickles, cucumbers, and cheetos, haha!) before teaching at my school. We…
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It is not hard to see that MUSIC has the incredible power to support the development of a child. Aside from being so much FUN, music grows a child’s language and increases cognitive, emotional, social, and creative development. Music education does not have to be provided in a music class though. Early childhood teachers and parents can provide meaningful experiences with singing…
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In order to create a cohesive classroom, children need to learn how to effectively express themselves in a healthy manner. Unfortunately, we cannot assume that good behavior is modeled at home. You may be the first person that has displayed kindness, patience, forgiveness and love to a student. This sad truth is a reality in classrooms today. Here is the…
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