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I never miss a blog post!
I love writing station time!
I agree with you that this is where I really start to see those writing light bulbs go off with my kinders and the writing magic starts to take off. My class is so excited about writing now.
I love the little books!! My writing center is one of my favorites!! 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing! I needed some writing inspiration!
Mary Love
marylove.houston@gmail.com
I love their writing.
Your ideas make writing fun!
I love seeing their writing!! I feel like I have the hardest time stretching some of my little ones during our writing block!!
We did your Pot of Gold Writing craft today! The kids LOVED it! We hung them from our ceiling! Thanks for all the FUN ideas!
My students were using your pocket chart station cards today and had so much fun making amazing sentences! Thank you so much for your ideas and items!
I am getting ready to start using your writing stuff in my classroom and this was encouraging!
abrumfield@miller.k12.mo.us
I love all of your products! Also I love the cute St. Patrick's day writing project!
I love your stuff!
This looks awesome!
I have already started planning for next year!
Love, love, love your stuff. We've been using your Writing Stations since January. The kids really look forward to the new vocabulary cards, as well as the themed cards and writing paper! Lee Ann Eckhardt
I love all of your writing ideas and materials! I use many of them in first grade! Thank you for sharing your creative mind and passionate heart for writing!
Love this time of year when the light bulb goes off! Still need to work on writing too! Love reading what is going on in your classroom.
Carla
What a great post! I love all of your fantastic ideas. Makes me want to rearrange my room tomorrow and make way for a word wall like yours! 🙂
My students love your writing stations!
Hi David! You were the winner of $10 worth of stuff from my store. If you would email me, I would be happy to send you something 🙂
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Always looking for great writing ideas!!! ?
You inspire me to be a better teacher! Thank you
Hi! I just came across your blog. You are amazing! I am back in Kindergarten after 14 years. I love it! Thank you so much for the visual lesson plans! You make it so easy to get great ideas and have it organized nicely! How do you insert your pictures of what you are working on? I have tried taking picture with my cell phone and them emailing it to myself. But the images do not look as half as good as yours! What is your secret? I am sure you have been asked this before, so I apologize if this is a repeat question. Thank you for energizing me and inspiring me to do things differently!!
HI Jenny! For the visual lessons? I just go to the unit (usually I just grab the image off of TpT since I need the URL as well). Then I right click and paste it into my power point version of my lesson plans. Is that what you mean?
Yes! Thank you for taking the time to reply. Your blog is AWESOME!!! I have so many ideas now! I have to use our Scott Foresman Reading Street (2013) Curriculum, but I will incorporate so many of your ideas!!! Your games are great. So many worksheets are being used and it is driving me nuts. Little by little I am making the skill into games. 🙂 Keep up the great ideas and work!
My Kinders LOVE your Writing Station activities! It's been such a great way to get even some of my reluctant kiddos writing!
I love kindergarten spelling! Your students do a great job with spacing in their writing. I think the vocabulary/word cards give them confidence that they can spell those "hard words" (theme words) and they are more willing to take a risk at writing a sentence knowing that some of the words will be there for them.
Your students seem to have good handwriting (or at least legible!). Do you have a specific handwriting time or somehow incorporate it in another way? Our curriculum has path of motion prompts that I use at the beginning of the year, but then I don't really work on it after that initial introduction (shame on me!). I have one little guy whose writing is quite large and difficult to read. He does have spaces between his words, thank goodness, which helps make it a little more readable.
Amanda
A Very Curious Class
Hi Amanda! We do a lot with letter formation during our morning work (those read, trace, glue, draw activities I have) and during interactive writing. That seems to help. I keep working on it, but we have a way to go for some of mine. The struggle never ends.
Thanks for sharing! I love to read writing by our youngest authors!!
Thanks for answering the question! Most of my students will write when I tell them to write (some don't like to write and are stubborn and stall). But when I give them a choice to choose between different papers for writing, they will choose the activity that involves coloring and do just that. Writing means work to them and they would rather play.
What wonderful ideas for teaching writing!! Thank you so much for sharing them.
You have such wonderful ideas! Thank you for sharing your teaching with us.
Do they always write about the topics you have posted? A lot of my kids just like to write letters back and forth to each other about liking each other. I do praise the ones who label or write books about other things, but none have made a book using all the words like yours did. Love it!!
Yes! Some of my cuties just write letters to their friends and their family. BUT after I drenched my little writers above with praise, there was a flourish of book writing.
Has anyone else had trouble with the lines to cut out the small pictures not printing? For example the pictures for sorts in the poetry response pages. The lines show up but not when printed. Thanks for your help with this. My students have a hard time if there aren't dotted lines to guide their cutting.
I have also had the same problem. I just use a ruler and redraw the lines.
Yes! It has to do with the settings on your printer (I think). I think you can change it to "print as an image" and it will all show up. I am planning on revising all of those poetry units this summer… sigh… or early fall. I will make a few tweaks to the lines to see if that helps.
Thank you so much! I will try checking out my printer.
Love the worksheet with different stations! Great way to practice new words!
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DeeDee
I was wondering how you push those kiddos that get "stuck" illustrating their stories and run out of time to write.
If they do not have words then they don't get a "punch" on their "All Star Station Work Card." That motivates them!
Thanks! I will try that.
Where will you be presenting this summer besides in Vegas?
I am going to be at a district in Nashville in July. I will be in the Dakotas in the Fall. Then Georgia, Michigan, and Arkansas in December. Does that help? Where are you?
I live in Sioux Falls, SD. Hopefully you are close enough in the Fall that I can try and come!
It will be on September 29th in West Fargo, ND and it is put on my the North Dakota Kindergarten Assc. Will that work?
That would work perfect. Only 3 1/2 hours away!
I just love how much your kindies are writing. Thanks for all the great ideas.
Sandra
Sandra's Savvy Teaching Tips
I just found your Writing Stations and I am sooo impressed with how they have changed the attitude about writing in my classroom. I wrote a post tonight to send people over to your store to check it out:) http://seabearskindergarten.blogspot.com/2015/03/reading-and-writing-is-fun.html
Thanks for the fabulous product. I can't even begin to wonder how many students your awesome ideas have helped out. Thanks!
Christina
Hi Deedee,
I love your products and blog. I was using the Building skills for feb-april and I wanted to let you know the picture of the robe does not have a letter o for the kids to color in. Is this something you can fix and let me know to download again? Thanks so much. You are amazing!