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Fluttering Through the Grades

Fourteen in '14

We're linking up with a few of our favorite friends for their Fourteen in '14 Linky Party!   We're what we call a "work in progress"... Attending the Southern California Kindergarten Conference and spending some much needed, rejuvenating face time with our teacher blogging buddies was by far our favorite 2014 memory.These women have truly touched our lives in so many ways and we are so blessed to call them our friends. We're excited to head back there again this year as ... VIEW POST

Visual Reminders for Listening

Teaching our young learners how to listen is a true teaching passion for us. For years, we have felt that for whatever reason, our students have become more and more disengaged from their own learning. Yet, the deeper we dug into our concerns, the more we realized that for whatever reason, many of them truly didn't know how to listen. So, we made it a point to start purposefully teaching kids the who, how and what of truly good listening skills both in and out of the classroom.    But, let's be ... VIEW POST

Crazy for Hot Cocoa!

Nothing says loco quite like cocoa! It's amazing the work our class will do for the stuff! They are crazy for hot cocoa!  We create this Loco for Cocoa bulletin board each year and leave it up past the holidays because, well, people drink hot cocoa in January too...And maybe even February...But, you didn't hear that from us. :) We spend the weeks leading up to winter break bringing a lot of special activities into our classroom, but our Hot Cocoa Party is one of our favorites. Mostly because ... VIEW POST

Visual Reminders That Work

We are firm believers in structuring our classroom for success. We spend a lot of time establishing procedures and then giving them visual, auditory and verbal reminders to get us through each day. Here are a few visual (posters), to go along with a few auditory and verbal (chants) reminders that have been working wonders in our classroom this year... One of our absolute hugest pet peeves is the "No Namer Paper"{shudder}. It's just so simple...WRITE YOUR NAME ON YOUR PAPER! So, we use this chant ... VIEW POST

Holiday Class Book Exchange

Does your class exchange gifts at the holidays? The holidays are a great time of year to host a Class Book Exchange! Quickly after Thanksgiving in the classroom, we send home a request for each student to bring a book in to exchange for our class book exchange. Our guidelines for books are clear and we give plenty of time for families to find and wrap their books. We always have a few extra books on hand for any student who may not be able to provide their own. We allow them to choose the one ... VIEW POST

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