Aligning With the Common Core

This week the kindergarten teachers at my school will get together to work on summer curriculum in an effort to align the kindergarten curriculum with the Common Core Standards. This is something that we have been working on for the past several months, but now we need to work more seriously on it and get it more complete for September. One of the more challenging areas we have found is to take our many themes and to try to condense them into more in-depth, meaningful themes. Right now we have many themes that last for 1-week or 2-week durations. Now...

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End of the Year - Pinterest Favorites

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Last Day and Getting Ready for Screening - How Does Your School Handle Screening?

Friday was the last day of school for my students. I always have really mixed emotions this time of year. Although I am excited about summer and the thought of spending more time with my own children, even excitement about summer school, I for some reason never get the "count down" excitement that I feel like I should have this time of year. Instead, I often feel more anxious about the year ending. With feelings like "I need more time" "Did...

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Under the Sea!!

     We just completed a wonderful three week unit on oceans and ocean animals. My co-teacher, Sue, is an Ocean nut! She travels to Florida every winter with her mother and comes back with a every shell imaginable and know everything possible about each shell. As part of our ocean unit, every day Sue gives each of the students a new shell and teaches them several interesting facts about that shell. They get to place it in their...

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