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Kindergarten Round-Up: Essential Requirements and Fun Activities to Get Ready!

What is Kindergarten Round-up? Kindergarten Round-up activities are typically used during a special event organized by schools to help incoming kindergarteners and their parents get familiar with the school environment, meet the teachers, and ease the transition into kindergarten. Kindergarten Round-up is a unique and welcoming event thoughtfully organized by schools each year, specifically targeting […]

Why You Need Write the Room Activities in Your Classroom

Phonics and writing are both incredibly important. You want to give your students several opportunities to practice letter formation, spelling, and more! What if I told you there was a simple way you can do that and all you need is a little prep time and printer? When you use a write the room activity, […]

Simple Low-Prep Kindergarten Writing Activities for Your Classroom

In kindergarten, we spend a lot of time teaching students phonics, blends, and more. Once students are starting to read words, it’s important we teach them how to write using those words. However, teaching writing in kindergarten isn’t always the easiest task! But it just got a whole lot easier with these great writing activities!  […]

Simple Hands-On Reading Activities for Kindergarten will Rev Up Reading

Reading is a fundamental skill for students to have. While we focus a lot on phonics and knowing how to read in kindergarten, it’s important to also work on reading comprehension. I was talking to a friend one day. She was telling me how frustrated she was with her daughter’s kindergarten teacher because she kept […]

Engaging Math Activities for Kids that Cover it All

1, 2, 3 come and count with me! We talk a lot about phonics and literacy when it comes to kindergarten students. However, kindergarten is about a lot more than just phonics and reading. Students need to do counting activities for kindergarten as well as other math activities for kids throughout the school year. If […]

Why A-Z Letter of the Week Activities are Science of Reading ApprovedLetter of the Week is Out and What You Should Do Instead

Once upon a time, we used to have a letter of the week. This was a traditional way of learning letters. However, this isn’t best practice especially for our younger students any more. Wait, what do I do if that’s not best practice? Well I have some great A-Z letter of the week activities for […]

How to Teach CVC Words in Kindergarten

Teaching students how to read is one of the most rewarding parts of teaching kindergarten. However, it can also be incredibly challenging! One of the fundamental concepts students have to learn is how to read a CVC words list. Not sure how to tackle that big list? Keep reading and I’ll explain why those CVC […]

No Prep Kindergarten Games for Early Finishers

Have you ever had a moment when you have just a few minutes left before your next activity? Maybe you are seeing your students are finishing assigned work early, or you may need to keep some of your littles busy while you focus on others. In times like these, no prep Kindergarten games are the […]

How to Teach Password Security in Kindergarten

Teaching password security to Kindergarten students isn’t as difficult as you might think! We live in a world full of technology. With that privilege, there is a huge responsibility to be good digital citizens. Part of being a good digital citizen means knowing about cybersecurity. How do we stay secure in a digital world? Passwords. […]