Math
Addition Lessons For Kindergarten: Get On My Boat
Introducing and practicing addition must be concret and hands-on. When our district scope and sequence was revised to introduce addition and subtraction in the first
October 29, 2024
Greg Smedley-Warren
Howdy, I am Mr. Greg. I have been teaching for 11 years. I spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and am now in my 9th year in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is my passion and my calling but honestly, that wasn’t how it started. Read the whole story >
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Holidays
Kindergarten Stone Soup Activities
November in our classroom is about being thankful and being a family. Our learning about thankfulness ends with a feast of stone soup. The stone
October 28, 2024
Literacy
November Read Alouds For Kindergarten
November is full of great learning and great November books for kids: Thanksgiving, turkeys, needs and wants, stone soup, and thankfulness and that means great
October 28, 2024
Holidays
Kindergarten Learning Activities: Halloween, Creepy Carrots, Creepy Underwear, Creepy Crayon
Welcome to week 12 of kindergarten, which includes Halloween and the day after Halloween lots of kindergarten learning activities to keep some normalcy! Our goal
October 26, 2024
Art
Monster Activities For Kids
One of our favorite book series is the “How To Catch” series, and our favorite book is How To Catch A Monster! After reading the
October 25, 2024
S.T.E.A.M.
Election Activities: Elections And Voting For Kids
Every four years, we have the power to VOTE! We must embrace this responsibility and teach our students to embrace it. So, how do we
October 25, 2024
Literacy
Kindergarten October Lesson Plans: Bats, Room On The Broom, Stellaluna, Phonics
Welcome to week 11 of kindergarten, which is a short week with kids and includes a field trip to the zoo and family conferences! It’s
October 19, 2024
Classroom Management
Kindergarten Lessons: Bats, How To Catch A Monster, Addition And Subtraction
Welcome to week 10 of kindergarten, the start of the second quarter and lots of fun kindergarten lessons and learning! We’re back from fall break
October 13, 2024
Literacy
Kindergarten October Read Alouds
Here are some of our favorite kindergarten October read alouds and some ideas for using them in class! We use monthly read-alouds to teach reading
October 7, 2024
Classroom Management
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Spookley The Square Pumpkin, Phonemic Awareness
It’s week 9 of kindergarten, and our kindergarten lesson plans are ready to go. This week is a four-day week because Friday is an in-service
September 28, 2024