When I started planning our gingerbread activities for this week, I knew there was no way I could not include gumdrop measurement! We haven't started our nonstandard measurement unit yet, but this was the perfect toe-dip into the water.I gave each table group a balance scale, a cup of gumdrops, and a tray full of assorted items. I tried to include lighter items, but I realized once we started measuring that I could have included some heavier items - gumdrops are dense! Students took turns at the ...
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How To Save Money by Leaving Feedback on TeachersPayTeachers!
You heard right - TeachersPayTeacher's big Cyber Monday sale starts today (December 2-3)! You can already save up to 25% using code CYBER19, but did you know you could be saving even more? I'm here to let you in on my secret!That's right! When you leave feedback on your past purchases, you earn money that can be applied towards a future purchases. I always hear from teachers who are absolutely shocked at how many points they've accumulated. Let me show you how:Go to your "My Purchases" page and ...
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Starting Centers in Kindergarten
This post contains affiliate links. I know it's late in the school year to be writing about this, but i've had a lot of questions recently about starting centers in kindergarten. How do I introduce centers and give my students choice in their centers?{You can read more about how centers in kindergarten look once they're up and running here.}Introducing the Classroom LibraryI start by introducing our classroom library the first full week of school. I start with this mostly because I want to give ...
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Easy Number Sense Games for Kindergarten
I don't know about you, but I am constantly on the lookout for easy number sense activities that won't cost me a lot of time or money.Luckily, this number sense game is both free and easy to pull out whenever you need a quick practice throughout the year! We play a version of this Where's The Bear? game just about every month because it's so darn easy!Right now we're playing with numbers to 10. Pretty soon, we'll break out our numbers to 20 number lines!For this game, students play as partners. ...
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I Am Thankful Writing Freebie
The thing about Kindergarten is that they shouldn't know what Thanksgiving break is yet. They've never experienced it, so they should know that it's coming up, right? They should be completely unaffected by the "Week Before Break Crazies."And yet.And yet I seriously had to say, "We don't somersault while reading books in the library," this week. Because we have lost our dang minds.Maybe this is your class too. Maybe you're one of the lucky ones and your class is full of angels this week. Either ...
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Books to Teach Feelings and Emotions
Some of the most important things that we as elementary teachers teach are social emotional skills. One of my favorite ways to teach feelings is through books!Today i'm going to show you some of my favorite books to teach SEL in the classroom. These are books that I use for whole group lessons, put in our classroom calm down corner, and add to our classroom library.This post contains affiliate links.Today I'm a Monster / In this book, the main character wakes up in a bad mood. Things happen ...
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