When going back to school, it is so important to do “all about me” activities with your students. Not only does it help you begin to build relationships with your students, but they are also a great way to ease them back into their daily school routine. You can get to know your students, and they will love getting to…
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Using a “question of the day” in kindergarten is a great way to get students sharing a little about themselves all year long. They can be included in your day in a number of ways and can give students a chance to tell others about their interests and favorites. These are some of my favorite ways to use “question of…
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With a new school year quickly approaching, teachers are preparing their behavior management plans so that their classroom will run more smoothly. Most of the time, the best plans include many different components working together, and sometimes, the well-managed classrooms may have things working for them that you may not have even considered as behavior management. These five behavior management…
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Hands-on learning is an important part of any student’s educational experience. They are those moments when students truly get to learn by doing, and they are crucial, even at the kindergarten level. Through hands-on learning, kindergarten students can develop new skills, make memories, and make connections. Even better, the nature of hands-on learning lends itself to better learning outcomes, such…
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Are you looking for a fun way to teach kids about germs? Learning about germs is always an important lesson but this past year has put health and safety on top of everyone’s priority list. If you are a parent or teacher, then you know how easy it is for young learners to spread germs. If you want to make…
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Light, heat, and sound are all important sources of energy that students need to learn about in order to understand the world around them. While these concepts may seem complex for students as young as kindergarten to understand, doing scientific activities and experiments about sources of energy will help students begin forming an understanding at their level. There are plenty…
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With back-to-school season in full swing, you are probably looking for fun activities to use in your classroom at the beginning of the year. In kindergarten, those first days typically look like doing a lot of hands-on activities, getting familiar with school, and being introduced to more structured learning time. Having fun with Back-to-School STEM Learning can do all of…
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There are so many benefits of brain breaks, not just for young learners but for us as adults, too. Have you ever been sitting in the middle of a long professional development session, just waiting for your next chance to move around? You have been listening to the presenter for a while, and even though the information is valuable, you…
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Anytime you create a dramatic play center in your kindergarten classroom, it is important to know how to use the space in your classroom to create the center and why it will benefit your students. Creating a grocery store dramatic play center is no different! You need to know what materials you will need, as well as how to…
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Learning Opportunities With Hats If you have been in the classroom for any amount of time, then you probably know that making things is always a big hit with students! It provides an experience for them to tie their learning to, and in turn, helps them remember the content. In my classroom, I liked to take it a step further…
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There are so many reasons you should create sight word readers in kindergarten to help teach sight words. Not only are they fun for students, but they also help students become more familiar with the word. Here are the three biggest reasons why student-created sight word readers benefit students when learning sight words. Multiple Exposures Before students can master any…
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There are tons of fun ways to teach kids about their senses, but because the activities often focus on fun, it may be easy for us to see them as only that. However, teaching students about their five senses is so much more! This science content remains an important topic to introduce to our students. These are three reasons why…
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Teaching Number Sense Teaching number sense in kindergarten is so important because it is a math skill on which many other skills are built. It includes understanding concepts like more or less in a quantity, that numbers are representative of quantities, and groupings of items. In kindergarten, these skills are useful when composing and decomposing numbers. They are necessary for…
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