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Raise your hand if you love the book Creepy Carrots and love some fun kindergarten reading comprehension ideas! Seriously, it’s a must-read. This book is a classic. I love it, the kids love it, and it’s full of teaching possibilities. Kindergarten Reading Comprehension: Creepy Carrots One area my students struggle with
Spookley The Square Pumpkin is always a favorite Halloween read-aloud. It’s a great book about being unique, tolerance, and perseverance. After reading the book, we completed these activities. For all of our Spookley The Square Pumpkin lessons, we used our Read It Up! resource! Click the image below to learn more about
It’s the week of kindergarten, and we’re kicking off spooky season with bat activities, introducing addition and subtraction, and starting to work on blending sounds. This week, we are wrapping up ABC BOOTCAMP, assessing, comparing numbers, doing more apple activities for kindergarten, and starting Chicka Chicka Boom B
A perfect kindergarten science unit for the fall is bats! Kids love learning about echolocation, nocturnal animals, and answering the question: do bats turn into vampires? Keep reading to see how we learn about bats! Kindergarten Science: Bats Graphic Organizers We kick off our bats learning with a schema map. We use P
It’s time for the pumpkins!! Learning about pumpkins is always a favorite in kindergarten! And we love using our Pumpkin Research Project to get a hands-on learning adventure with these kindergarten pumpkin activities! This pumpkins research project gives students experience with research, writing, higher-order thinkin
Looking for something engaging and fun as a way to review our letters and sounds? Or review and practice any skills? You can do it with these Candy Land classroom ideas: Candy Land Letter and Sound Review! After our 26 days of ABC BOOTCAMP, we always build in a week of review for all […] The post Candy Land Classroom I
It’s week 7 of kindergarten, and we’re continuing to build center routines and celebrating Johnny Appleseed Day! This week, we are wrapping up ABC BOOTCAMP, assessing, comparing numbers, doing more apple activities for kindergarten, and starting Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! CLICK THE IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD OUR FREE LESSON PLANS
It’s apple pickin’ time and September is the perfect month for apple activities! September 26th is Johnny Appleseed’s birthday so we celebrate apples all month long with our Apples Research Project! Apple Activities: Apples Research Project! We use our Apple Research Project for our Apple unit! All of our research proj
What is the one question I get asked more than any other? How do you set up centers for kindergarten? (or any grade!) In particular, math and literacy centers. It seems there is a lot of information out there on literacy centers, but little on math centers. So this post will give you some insight […] The post Math Cent
Celebrating Constitution Day can be a challenge in kindergarten. The Constitution is a big, complicated document, and it’s a complex idea to teach our students. That’s why we created our American Symbols research project and Constitution Day lesson plans. This research project is great for celebrating Constitution Day
You know, there truly is a day to celebrate everything. September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day! This is a perfect day for kindergarten! What kid and (teacher!) doesn’t like pirates? So here’s how we celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day in our classroom with these kindergarten pirate activities! Kindergarten Pirate Activi
It’s week 6 of kindergarten, and we’re continuing to build center routines and celebrating National Pirate Day! This week is still focused on routines and procedures as well. But mostly, our kindergarten lesson plans and activities are ABC BOOTCAMP, comparing numbers, apple activities and Pirate Day! CLICK THE IMAGE TO
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