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APPLE ACTIVITIES FOR LITTLE LEARNERS

September brings a lot of fun thematic units in the classroom. Apple units are so fun for Preschool, Pre-K and even Kindergarten classrooms. This time I year, I fill my room with apple activities, Apple Books and conduct apple science investigations! Everything You Need When I sat down to create my thematic units, I knew […]

HOW TO KEEP STUDENTS ACCOUNTABLE

I get a ton of questions from tired, frustrated teachers on how to keep students accountable during small group teaching. You feel like you spend more time redirecting than paying attention to the three to four students in front of you. If you don’t have a well organized system, this will be you every time. […]

COMPOSING NUMBERS

I don’t know about you, but Kindergarten is getting more and more advanced as the years go on. Years ago, it was the teacher’s goal just to teach the basics: letters, numbers and shapes. Now, we are teaching financial literacy, story plot and decomposing and composing numbers. These number mats are some of my favorite […]

POSITIONAL WORDS WITH THE GINGERBREAD MAN

There are so many fun, creative ways to teach the story of the Gingerbread Man during the holiday season. This year, I took the science and literacy approach with using positional words as my main focus. My students loved this interactive reader focusing on positional words with the gingerbread man! Favorite Gingerbread Picture Books Have […]