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As you sit on the beach relaxing this summer, I encourage you to ponder how you can use technology in your classroom and give your students the opportunities to develop 21st century skills. Read on for some suggestions of how you might approach...
Tips for using Laura Numeroff's circular stories to help build comprehension skills such as cause and effect and inference
Earth Day is April 22, 2012. Our planet is a beautiful one, and it is all we have. This Earth Day take a look at some books, songs, activities, crafts, and recipes that will get your students interested in helping our earth.
Every spring break as I am cleaning up my classroom, I take time to reflect and organize my thoughts. What strategies or routines have worked well this year? Are there any areas that we haven’t worked on that we need to?
Tips and strategies for assessing student development and writing report card comments
In this conclusion to a three-part series about kindergarten project-based learning, my class plans a fundraiser to help save the Javan rhino, advertises the fundraiser, and learns to count money.
Our endangered animal project is moving along! This week you will see how my students worked together to create their persuasive videos and how we presented them to the school. You will also find a link to all six student-made videos. They are...
Through project-based learning, students gain a sense of responsibility. Implement this unit on endangered species in your classroom.
January 23rd is National Handwriting Day. What a perfect day to work on your students' handwriting. Read more to learn how my handwriting instruction has changed in the past few years and about a few handwriting tools that you can use in your...
Retelling stories is a common practice in early childhood education. It gives children the opportunity to work on comprehension, verbal language, and many other early literacy skills. When you take retelling stories to the next level with...
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