Teacherclubhouse.com is a website that gives themed templates available for download for a fee. These templates range from classroom newsletter templates, decorations and worksheets. Photo references for Alphabet crafts from A to Z. There is so many fun ways you can teach the alphabet to your kids.
I put together a list below of fun literacy learning with crafts. We love making crafts so I thought it would be fun to share some of the crafts we have done and some that other great bloggers have done with their little ones. Starfall.com is a interactive short video website dedicated to language arts for grade Pk-3rd. KinderArt.com is a complete comprehensive website about art instructions and ideas for grades PK-8th. Photo references for ladybug counting the spots math activity. Count the spots on each wing to add together. 5 classroom rules that would be beneficial in a kindergarten classroom. These rules are teaching children respect and courtesy. Kindergarten can be an exciting time!
For many students, kindergarten will be their first experience with school. This lesson will share classroom rules and procedures for a successful kindergarten school year! Rules and Procedures Kindergarten! The first year of school. YouTube video that gives tips for classroom management and transitional queues. The instruction in the video gives informative verbal, visual and audio suggestions to help with theses transitions. Within this website there is varies suggestions to teach art, science, stem and more through leaf discover. I have always loved making leaf rubbings!
Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by this beautiful self-made art -- the instant 'picture' that was created just by covering a leaf with paper and running a crayon over the top. As I grew to become a nature lover, I realized that making a leaf print is much more than just a pretty picture -- it's also a peek into the science of trees. Leaf rubbing is one of those crafts that almost every child tries as Autumn approaches. We see so many beautiful leaves covering the ground that we are drawn to capture both their shape and hue on paper.
Funbrain.com is a website full on fun interactive games, reading, videos, playground and math zones. These activities range from PK to K skill level with a variety of subjects included. An instructional video demonstrating various sounds of high pitch and low pitch. This video is provided on YouTube. Photo references for creating and completing journal entry notebooks for Kindergarten.
We have been busy in our notebooks.
We recorded that writers need a pencil, paper and ideas... readers need lots and lots of books... and mathematicians study numbers, shapes, adding and subtracting. Gross motor Halloween themed game. Spider web created with painter's tape that could be adjusted to different skill levels by adding ghost obstacles. Finding a fun spooky Halloween game for kids to play that won’t scare the pants of little guys is not always a simple task .
This game is simple, spooky but not at all frightening. As I was making it I wasn’t so sure of how we’d play but the rules evolved and we’ve been playing it all weekend . The giggles were epic and the only screams were when I forgot the spiders are fake and walked into the living room and saw them on the floor. This activity works on balance , problem solving and can be adapted for various levels. Weather discovery with free printable, activities that can be modified for different skill level and that require little prep time.
Gardening with children made simple. This site included facts, indoor and outdoor projects, and what plants are the easiest to grow. Tips and Tricks to help build engaging math stations that will hold Kindergarten students attention for 15-20 minutes. Math Stations!
So fun and, yet somehow, so hard to wrap your head around. . . When I first started contemplating math stations, it was shortly after reading Debbie Diller’s fabulous Math Work Stations. Three day lesson plan to assist Kindergarten educators on how to explain the difference between living and non-living objects. This is a quick little unit that teaches children about living and non-living things.
I find that most kindergartners can almost always tell you what things are living and what things are non-living, but they cannot tell you why. And there are definitely some tricky ones--for example, most of my kids think that a tree is non-living. And then there is always the discussion of non-living versus dead. They will sometimes say things like, "The rock is dead. " So I explain that in order to be "dead," something had to be alive first. The Classroom Creative is a website built by two educators to help with lesson planning from PK-8th. Several K-5th websites to assist a teacher with fun interactive styles of teaching and learning. These are my 62 favorite kindergarten websites.
I sprinkle them in throughout the year, adding several each week to the class internet start page, deleting others. I make sure I have 3-4. Math games for early childhood education within the website TeachersPayTeachers.com. Incorporating different hands on learning stations within the classroom. Each day I work with children in small groups during our language arts block.
During this time, the other children are engaged in activities that I've set-up in various interest areas in our classroom. I'm calling them interest areas because they are flexible and ever-changing in terms of purpose. For example, one day children may be engaged in an art project at an interest area, while the next day the activity is more math focused in the same area. I do have a "math" center and a "writing" center, but I'm liking the greater flexibility I have with interest areas.
Here are some examples of the activities that have been putting out at each interest area over the past several weeks.