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Sun Safety Activities

We are continuing our series of Summer Safety! Last week, I featured the water safety resource. This week we are focusing on sun safety. Summer months take us all outside whether it be swimming, camping or just jumping on the trampoline. We have to keep our skin healthy! Start With a Book! You know me! […]

Winter Digraphs

Kindergarten is a big year for many milestones! They walk in the first day of school knowing very little about reading. By the end of the year, they are reading their first books. They move from reading consonant-vowel-consonant words to words with digraphs and blends. After we introduce and practice blends, we then move on to […]

Penguin Sentence Matching

Winter months are a favorite of mine as a teacher. My kids come back refreshed from a long break, they are eager to be back, and they always love the winter themes. But winter also means a time to see how my students have grown.  This is a time where sentence building happens!  And this […]

FREE Beginning Literacy Assessment

It’s the beginning of the year, and you have a whole new class that is sitting in front of you.  You don’t know them besides the information you got on the student information card.  You know the first few weeks are getting to know them.  Both personally and academically.  You also know the first few […]

Literature and Math using Counting

We had a wonderful time camping this past weekend. Twelve children and eight adults made for a crowded, but exciting trip.  We were all sitting around the campfire the first night.  The sun had set and darkness crept in.  All of a sudden, we saw twinkling lights throughout the trees.  Yep, fireflies.  If you haven’t […]