Melting ice experiments in kindergarten! After a shared reading activity, we how these students experimented with melting ice! FREE FILE TOO! Incorporate Reading, Writing, and Inquiry to Get More Teaching in Your Day I get it! A kindergarten classroom is busy! The demands seem higher and the time seems shorter. What if there was a…
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10 Kid Friendly Dental Health Videos
Dental health videos for kids. Your kindergarten and first graders will learn about teeth and dental hygiene with these fun videos. Dental Health Videos for Kids The first five dental health videos are all from SciShow Kids! I seriously LOVE this YouTube channel. Their educational videos are endless. I love how they are short and…
7 Classroom Friendly Videos for Studying the Arctic
Classroom friendly videos Arctic Animals. These teacher-approved videos are great for your January units of study. Polar bears, penguins, and other animals in winter! Kindergarten and first-grade appropriate videos for your classroom. Classroom Friendly Videos: Arctic Animals It’s almost January! That means our study of Arctic animals is coming soon! Check out these classroom-friendly videos for…
The Story of Snow Lesson Plans
Snow lesson plans for your 2nd-grade classroom. Students engage in reading and writing activities to better understand how snow forms. The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonder by Mark Cassino and Jon Nelson is the perfect nonfiction book to welcome winter into your classroom! The beautiful photographs capture students’ attention and allow for…
KINDERGARTEN LESSON PLANS: WEEK 19 Snow is Falling
Learning About Snow Lesson Plans for kindergarten and first grade with the book Snow is Falling. Learning About Snow: Reading Ideas For this week’s close reading the book Snow is Falling is perfect! This is one of our Engaging Readers books and it is filled with all sorts of information about snow and how it is…
December Read Aloud Favorites!
December read aloud books for your kindergarten and first-grade classroom! These fun December books are great for Winter! December Read Aloud Favorites December is here! Wow, this year is going quick! Check out a few of my December read aloud favorites to share with students throughout the month of December. One Snowy Night by M. Christina…
The Winter Games in the Classroom
Winter Games Lesson Ideas are great for the Winter Olympics or anytime it turns cold. Here are a few suggestions for you! Winter Games Read Aloud These three books (affiliate links) are wonderful for discussing the Winter Olympics: Tacky and the Winter Games brings back our favorite penguin, Tacky. His penguin friends are getting ready…
Snow by Cynthia Rylant Lesson Plans
Cynthia Rylant’s Snow Lesson Plans! Snow by Cynthia Rylant Read Aloud We love the beautiful language in Cynthia Rylant’s book Snow (affiliate link). You might say that I am a Cynthia Rylant junkie! This is a book that you will want in your collection! In our reading comprehension units, we work on figurative language using…
Snowmen at Night Lesson Plans (Free Activity TOO!)
Snowmen at Night Lesson Plans are here! My class has always loved this sweet book. We begin the week’s lesson by reading it over and over. Snowmen at Night was written by Caralyn Buehner and illustrated by her husband, Mark Buehner. The rhyming in the text makes it fantastic for strengthening our phonemic awareness and…
The Mitten Reading Comprehension FUN! (psst… FREE unit)
The Mitten reading comprehension unit for kindergarten. This was one of my son’s favorite winter books when he was growing up, so naturally, it became one of the books that we read over and over again! The Mitten Perhaps you have heard about our Guiding Readers Reading Comprehension units, but you have not tried them…
Are you ready for Winter? January Math and Literacy Planning!
Winter kindergarten classroom activities to use in January? You got it! Plus a free planning guide! Perhaps you are squeezing in the last few days of winter break or maybe you are already looking forward to January. I hope this post helps you prepare without the stress! Winter Literacy Activities Here is a little peek…
Are you ready for December? Ideas and Resources … plus a free file!
December kindergarten resources are here! Ready or not! November seemed to fly by… blink and you will be knee deep in December! It is such a BUSY time of the year for most people, but for teachers, it can be down-right overwhelming. I have gathered some ideas you can use for December in your classroom….
Martin Luther King, Jr Lesson Plans
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr lesson plans are here! Check out how we celebrate! Great Books! The book My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was written by Martin Luther King, III! So good! I have been a fan of Kadir Nelson (the illustrator of this book) forever! I Have a Dream does not…
Snow Lesson Plans for Kindergarten
Ezra Jack Keats Snowy Day Lesson Ideas! Every year, January equals snow in my classroom! Ezra Jack Keats Snowy Day Lesson Ideas: Reading There are so many book choices! We love The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. You can find our Guiding Readers Lesson Plans for this book HERE. Did you know that Amazon…
Hibernating Animals Lesson Plans
Hibernating Animals Lesson Plans! We love teaching about animals in winter. We start with some great books! Here is a list for you! Hibernation Station Animals in Winter Bear Snores On I love these sweet books! Hibernation Not included in the image above Over and Under the Snow! So So SO good! Hibernating Animals…
Simple Kindergarten Centers for December that Keep Kids Learning (FREE Download)
December Kindergarten Centers that keep kids learning! That’s the goal of stations… right? We want students to over-learn key skills and have fun in the process! KISS: Keep it Simple Sunshine I know how it can be overwhelming! Creating fresh activities for you class to complete that are meaningful, yet fun! Do you feel…
Kindergarten Lesson Plans ~ Dental Health week!
Dental health kindergarten lesson plans are here. These are a few of my favorite dental books! I love Throw Your Tooth on the Roof. Students can learn to see the world from a different perspective! This is such a fun book! Here are few other tooth videos. This story will give you…
Reading Comprehension Updates!
I have organized my Guiding Readers binders… AHH!! These printable Kindergarten reading comprehension binders are a fantastic resource for you and your students! It feels good to get the 2nd edition in its own binder. The one on the left was the 1st edition that I used last year… you can tell because the binder…
Math and Literacy Centers for Winter
Kindergarten math and literacy worksheets and centers make student stations a breeze during the winter months! Ink Saving Winter Centers I created these Black Ink Only centers because I had heard that many of you did not have access to color ink! These simply print on colored cardstock! Here is what January’s units looked like. Students are making…
Activities for Kindergarten Winter Centers!
Here are some kindergarten winter center activities, including literacy and math centers! Perfect for those cold days when everyone wants to stay inside! Here in Colorado, we have blue skies for miles! Despite the snow on the ground, it is a short-sleeves-kind-of-day! Kindergarten Winter Center Activities Here are some fun and predictable math activities for…
Arctic Animal Interactive Writing in Kindergarten
Last year my class loved learning about polar bears and the animals that live in the cold, so we did some kindergarten arctic animal interactive writing! Ice Bear by Nicola Davies We loved the illustrations in this book. Nicola Davies is one of my favorite authors. She combines informational texts along with narrative texts which is…
It’s Gingerbread Week!
I love gingerbread (people either love it or hate it). But I love it! I also think it is one of my favorite classroom themes. Healthy Recipe for Kids In my house, I stand alone in my love for gingerbread. My husband and The Perfect Son turn up their noses. In my…
Kindergarten Math and Literacy Stations for November
Last year, I knew I needed more kindergarten math and literacy stations for my students. I had several staple activities up I wanted to provide an opportunity for my students to practice and over-learn skills. BUT I needed more than an activity that would take then 5 minutes then… “I’m DONE!!!” Or worse yet… the…
Peek at my Week-Groundhog Week!
He’s back! I sort of love the non-pressure of Groundhog’s Day! A new month means it is time of me to swap out my monthly staples! Our writing station is up and ready for February! I am ready for President’s Day… Knock on wood… we will not have a snow make-up day that day. We…