calendar

As I travel and speak to teachers all over the country, one thing that I hear a lot about is calendar time or calendar routine in kindergarten and early childhood.…

Today I’m showing a video that highlights our math block.   We follow the balanced math routine, which is much like the balanced literacy routine.   It’s a very quick routine…

It’s time for another kindergarten smorgasboard classroom video!!!!!!   Recently, we’ve made some changes to our calendar routine. We removed the counting to the date part of the routine at…

Happy Thursday!  We finally went back to school today after 3 snow days and it was a crazy busy day!  But we did manage to make another classroom video for…

Happy Monday!  Did Monday whoop up on anyone else today?!  My ‘staches were great and we got a lot accompolished but…man…Monday wore me out! Today I want to share a…

Happy Friday!  Did everyone survive the day after Halloween?  It’s every teachers most dreaded day…all of that sugar…it really should include hazard pay.  Luckily for me, today was parent-teacher conference…

My recent posts on my literacy block routine and sight word routine posts have been very popular, so I want to continue that series with my calendar routine!  And yes,…

Hello Monday.  You officially win today.  I’m beat.  But since one  of my  teacher BFFs (shhhhh don’t tell anyone!) asked me to do this post, I just have to do…

It’s here.  The day has arrived.  Tomorrow.  Just over 12 hours from NOW.  I meet my 11 (so far!) little ‘staches for the first time.  Tomorrow is the FIRST DAY…

It’s BAAAACK!  That’s right!  It’s that time of year again!  Schedulin’ Sunday is back because we start back to school this week!    August 1st is the first day for…