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October 2016

How to survive Halloween in Kindergarten

I know, I know, everyone LOVES Halloween. But here is my deepest, darkest, secret-I don’t.  It wasn’t always this way, I mean I love candy, I love hanging out with friends and Halloween is basically kid nirvana.  But  I am a kindergarten teacher, and if you teach in an elementary

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Using robots to teach reading

I love robots! I love robots, I mean I REALLY love robots. I love what it does for kids. How it amazes them, how it empowers them, how it reaches them like nothing else. I don’t consider myself “techie” ( my own kids will agree), but somehow this “no tech”

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Where do I start with reading groups?

Kindergarten reading groups often don’t involve any “reading” in the way that parents typically think.  Your students may not be able to “read” I see the fat cat until the spring. But don’t be fooled, the ground work that is laid in the first half of kindergarten is crucial to

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Counting and Cardinality is essential to any kindergarten math curriculum. Kids need to know how and why we use numbers.                                     There are 2 major  key concepts for kindergarten students at the beginning

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