Calendar Activities

My students were always learning passively during calendar time, so I created these interactive notebooks to help keep them more engaged!

FREE Daily Kindergarten Calendar for Daily Use

I love the morning meeting time. There are so many skills that can be reviewed within these routines and we all know how much kinders love routines. I use equity sticks and do not have an assigned "calendar helper" or "weather helper" etc. I find that it keeps my students more engaged if they don't know exactly when they will be called on to help or ask a question. Once I get all the routines up and running I can run through the entire class at least once and sometimes twice. I'm listing the…

Download these free Calendar Board Printables.

Kerri here! Okay, here comes my first idea post... I use CGI Math in my first grade class, which stands for Cognitively Guided Instruction ...

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School is just around the corner! Here are some amazing books to read with your kids to help them prepare and be excited about going back to school!

My first few days of first grade: Morning Message

Cute poem to say to start your morning meeting. 3 different versions that can be printed

What do you do during your morning meeting? I don't know about you but I cover a wide variety of skills during my morning meeting. I don't have a smartboard so I like to use my white board to cover my skills. 1. For Starters I, or the Top Banana, will start the Good Morning poem and everyone will move to their seats on the carpet! By the time that we are finished saying the poem everyone is seated and ready to begin ***Update*** I typed up the Good Morning Poems Click HERE to get them 2…

Calendar Math

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A first grade teacher shows her calendar board and how she has incorporated the Singapore Math strategy of building number sense with ten frames.

In my school we start our day with Every Day Counts Calendar Math. A couple years ago I started to include calendar math journals in my mo...

Tomorrow’s the day. The first day of school. The first day of Kindergarten for my 18 little babies. I’m bound and determined to make it a memorable one…and you can guarantee it’ll be full of FUN! I’m putting my boys to bed tonight and waking them up tomorrow as a preschooler and a kindergartener. Sniff, …

We started school this week! I did not think I was ready, had not finished organizing the school room (dining room), but finishing up this project was a huge motivator for me to just do it. (I debated waiting a week or two until I was "ready." Well, I figured life will go on no matter what, so we might as well jump in.) We have had a great week so far, so I am glad we did! Here is how we are starting our day: This is geared towards Malachi mostly. I started homeschooling when Dylan was in 5K…

What we just explored why decomposing and composing numbers really is crazy important in kindergarten. This is part 2 of this series - it's all about making practicing this skill regularly a cinch in the kindergarten classroom. << Previous Page - Part 1 As a recap, I know that we often call this common core standard 'place value,' but really it is number sense. Our kinders truly have to understand what these numbers are: in quantityin number formas a numeraland in comparison to their…

First things first. I created a new packet of worksheets. I know that lots of people frown upon them; however, I do find the ocassional worksheet to be a useful tool in my classroom. I find that they can help assess students learning and they can also help reinforce teaching. If you've followed my blog for any amount of time, I've created loads of worksheets over the years and one of the things I've realized is that more often than not, I need LEVELS with these worksheets. I need more…

The Fiftieth Day of School?!? Already??? How can that be??? We have so much fun in Kindergarten and the Fiftieth Day was no exception!!! Check out our fun, fun day!!! First, we learned about life in the 50s!! We sorted pictures from then and now. We also had out picture taken with a giant record…AKA-a...Read More

Help your students celebrate the 100th day of school with this coloring page countdown sheet and numbered star stickers! Free printables inside.

The 50th day of school is rapidly approaching! (Okay…so I’ve still got like 20+ days to go but it’s getting closer!) I’ve been thinking about how to jazz up what I do on the…