Want to do a Kindergarten STEAM project with your kiddos, but unsure of where to begin? In this post, I share the steps we went through in designing and building our own paintbrushes. This activity comes to us from our Project Lead the Way program in our unit on structure and function. For this project, we […]
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St. Patrick’s Day Activities You’ll Treasure
View the autosave Planning St. Patrick’s Day Activities In the classroom, planning St. Patrick’s Day activities can be tricky for teachers! We want to feed children’s interest and imaginations, yet we don’t necessarily want to spend all month looking for leprechauns as children gather evidence in the form of lint specs found on the carpet. […]
Classroom Call Backs and Attention Getters for Playful Management
Inside: Learn how to use classroom attention getters and call backs for fun and playful classroom management. Getting Children’s Attention Throughout the Day Ever stop to count the number of times you have to get your children’s attention throughout the day? Neither have I! But I would guess we’re talking double digits. Multiply that by […]
Kindergarten Classroom Cheers for a Positive Environment
Inside: Discover how using classroom cheers to recognize positive behavior can build community n your preschool, kindergarten, or first grade classroom. Three Cheers for Positive Reinforcement When I was pregnant with my first child, I noticed pregnant women everywhere! Certainly pregnant women were nothing new, but I was tuned-in in a way that I had […]
Hands-in-Your-Lap Rhymes
While criss-cross applesauce might seem like magic in September, it has usually lost its charm by December. So if you’re like me and find that your classroom management needs a tune-up right about now, try these monthly hands-in-your-lap rhymes to provide a consistent, but novel routine for gaining children’s attention. The […]
The 100th Day of School: How it All Began
The First 100th Day of School Did you ever wonder how the 100th day of school began? Many years ago, I had the pleasure of connecting with one of its originators while writing a book about this time-honored tradition. Here’s what I found out. Back in 1979, Lynn Taylor, along with her colleagues David Cooper […]
The Envelope Project
We recently did an engineering and design project that was inspired by a child who came to school with a homemade envelope containing his Scholastic book order. I invited him to share it with the class and he told us how he came to make the envelope because he couldn’t find one in […]
Welcome the New Year with a Fresh Start
Inside: Welcome back your kindergarten kiddos with these New Year activities for a fresh start to January. Note: Some of the links in this post are Amazon affiliate links. If you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. The links are included to provide […]
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