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Recent Posts:

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  • 5 Teacher Reflection Tools to Amplify Your Teaching
  • 25 Ideas, Resources, and Projects for Learning Together in May
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  • 5 Earth Day Projects for Kindergarten
  • Earth Heroes: A Kindergarten Earth Day Project
  • 25 Resources, Ideas, and Projects for Learning Together in March
  • Easy Leprechaun Traps for Kindergarten
  • 25 Resources, Ideas, and Projects for Learning Together in February
  • 100 Chart Games & Activities for Beyond the 100th Day
  • 25 Resources, Ideas, and Projects for Learning Together in January
  • Teaching Young Children About Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Scarecrow Building Party: Activities for Fall Fun
  • Drawing and Labeling Pictures: First Steps for Kindergarten
  • Shared Reading: A Weekly Big Book Routine for Kindergarten
  • The Kindergarten Name Game: A Literacy Routine for the Beginning of the Year
  • 7 Playful Ways to Do Letter-Sound Card Drills in Kindergarten
  • Kindergarten Inquiry, Projects and STEAM Ideas Across the Seasons
  • Apple Seed Inquiry: Exploring the Scientific Method in Kindergarten
  • 3 Types of Makerspace Challenges to Use Across the Kindergarten Year
  • Using a Workshop Model to Teach Future-Ready Skills in Kindergarten
  • Future-Ready Skills: Preparing Kindergarteners for Tomorrow Through Play
  • 3 Ways to Add New Materials to Your Kindergarten Play Centers
  • Room Tour: Play-Based Centers for Kindergarten Choice Time
  • Our Bald Eagle Research Project
  • 5 Steps to a Classroom Calming Corner for Social-Emotional Needs
  • Routines & Rituals to Welcome the Week
  • Meaningful Ways to Open and Close the Kindergarten Year
  • Class Party Ideas for Every Month of the Year
  • Routines & Rituals to Welcome the Month
  • Routines & Rituals to Welcome the Day
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  • Moving From Themes to Project Based Learning in Kindergarten
  • Teacher Books That Made Me Go Hmmm
  • 17 Teacher Tools That Helped Me Build Better Habits
  • How To Make a One Word Resolution to Transform Your New School Year
  • Gingerbread STEM Challenge: The Toy Boat Project
  • Making a Plan for the Covid Friendly Classroom
  • Writing Center Activities for Beginning Writers
  • Retelling Stories with Story Maker Mats
  • Reopening Schools: What Teachers Might Discover!
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  • Why Gray is the New Color for Back to School
  • Number Sense Activities for Your Kindergarten Math Center
  • 10 Ways to Use Your Virtual Classroom
  • 6 End-of-Year Ideas for Distance Learning
  • Planning Virtual Field Trips for Distance Learning
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  • Setting Up a Natural Classroom in 3 Easy Steps
  • Story Maps: Teaching with Fairy Tales in Kindergarten
  • My Biggest Challenge with a Classroom Makerspace
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  • Teaching One More and One Less with Number Staircases
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  • 5 Must-Have Materials for Your Kindergarten Block Center
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  • 7 Kindergarten Morning Work Choices for a Soft Start
  • Planting Bean Seeds to Welcome Spring
  • 10 Ways to Celebrate Read Across America Week
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  • Keeping it Real: Animals in the Classroom
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  • Polar Express Day in Kindergarten
  • My Favorite Kindergarten Holiday Craft
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  • 4 Ways to Teach Beginning Writers to Spell Words
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  • A Fall Nature Walk: Before, During, & After Activities
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  • Classroom Birthday Board and Display: Ready, Set, Go!
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  • Introducing Number Bonds in 5 Easy Steps
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  • Christmas Kindness Countdown Calendar
  • Exploring Needs and Wants in Kindergarten
  • Our Kindergarten Friendship Feast
  • 5 Steps to Teach Number Writing Using Formation Rhymes
  • Positivity Project: Open-mindedness
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