After going through language therapy with both of my boys I have learned a thing or two about meeting speech therapy expressive language goals. As a Kindergarten teacher I have picked up on a few activities that help support goals for expressive language skills. I have found it beneficial to work on both areas of language expressive and receptive to strengthen language development for early childhood. As a classroom teacher I find that all children can benefit from activities designed specifically for expressive receptive language disorders. I have also seen where children that have typ ..read more

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  Two of my favorite classroom activities are sensory bins and task boxes. So instead of using worksheets for kindergarten science I decided to create task boxes all about life science for our life science study. This past year with all of the Covid restrictions and needing supplies for individual children I decided to make individual sensory bins for the children to use to study the topics of life science. Before playing with the items in the sensory bins my students were to complete the everyday life science task box activity. This provided motivation especially if the sensory bin w ..read more

  Have you ever seen a growing bundle and wondered what they are , how they work and if they are for you? Are you a seller wondering if you should be offering growing bundles? This blog post is for you! Growing bundles may be the best kept secret on Teachers Pay Teachers. There are advantages for both buyers and sellers! Read on to see why Growing Bundles are so awesome! For Buyers: Sellers list items that are meant to be in a series but are not fully completed. This way the buyer gets to buy in at a lower price and the seller gets to pre-advertise their product. It’s a win ..read more

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  The end of the school year is a very special time in Kindergarten. We celebrate growing up from dependency to independence. We have worked so hard to learn all there is to know about our ABC’s and 123’s. We’ve made friends, followed directions, played and become independent learners. Our lives have changed for the better and we want to document it! One of my favorite end of year activities is our kindergarten memory book! I missed doing this with my kiddos last year and it was really difficult not to have all of their memories in one place for parents to treasure. Here we get to s ..read more

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  Whether you are in person, virtual, or a combination of both we are in a state of crisis in education. Teachers are stressed, working harder and longer than ever and are expected to perform like normal under near impossible restrictions. I HEAR YOU, I SEE YOU, I FEEL YOU! My school is in person full time and we have virtual students signing into the classroom for live lessons. This is a recipe for disaster! Teaching students live and online at the same time changes the management and climate of the classroom. We are scheduled to the minute, loosing teaching time to start/stop zooms ..read more