I'm more than a tad bit sad that I'm almost done with this book. Chapter 9 was all about what else could be a work station. I love that this chapter told me several things that I was already doing! Yay for me! (I love that feeling of verification :) ) Computer Work Station- Kid Pix and Kidspiration are just the beginning for this. They can play games (Fun Brain), read along with stories (Book Flix), write a book review (our school media center has this set up for all the students), and…

I'm kind of a by-the-book kind of girl (well at least about things I want to do) so when I read in The Daily Five book that you should start Daily 5 on the very first day of school I just accepted it. So last year I dutifully filled my book boxes, printed out my stamina chart, and got ready for day one of read-to-self. But I admit I was skeptical. Really kindergartners reading? And surprisingly it went really well! I was so pleased- each and every day my kiddos were reading longer and…

So I have a student teacher that started several weeks ago...I know...BE JEALOUS! Since I have started Daily 5 on my own....yes no training just reading the book & excessive blog stalking...I thought I would share what I have come up with. If you have been following me for a while you know that I am O.B.S.E.S.S.E.D with my job & am very OCD about my job. My husband wishes I was so OCD about cleaning around the house but .....NOT.... GONNA.... HAPPEN! Anywho, I thought I would empty some of…

Do you want an interactive, engaging sight word station or activity? This is it! Your students are able to trace sight words and write them. This pack includes all of the Pre-Primer and Primer Dolch words. Plus they get to cut, glue, and build the words too! Students love this great activity! ****...

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Differentiated instruction in the classroom

Create your own listening center in your classroom with these easy instructions from this kindergarten teacher!

We're pretty new to this whole uploading documents on blogs and it's taken us a while to figure out how to do it...But we think we've got it...

Ok it is all kinds of embarrassing that it has taken me this long to blog about my Work on Words setup and activities. My BFF Marisa over ...

Differentiated instruction in the classroom

Differentiated instruction in the classroom

This resource is HUGE!! It is the largest freebie that I offer. I hope you enjoy this resource and find its contents useful. Please Come visit my blog at theteachingreef.blogspot.com. Also, check out these links to my units, my Daily Centers Classroom Pack {7 Classroom Centers} and "Editable" Dai...

HALLELUJAH Dear Lord, uploading this file to TPT was hard. I guess 43 pages of graphics, backgrounds and fonts was just too much for them to handle. However, I finally figured it out and it is now available to you! Click Here to Purchase :) I uploaded the file as a gif file, so if you would rather the pdf version I will gladly email it to you! Included in the pack of Literacy Workstation Task Cards are: - ABC/ Word Study Task Cards (9) - Poetry Task Cards (8) - Listening Station Task Cards…

Have your early elementary children respond to what they listen to in the listening center with this sheet. Please check out my top sellers! Kindergarten Morning Work First Grade Morning Work

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Freebie Kindergarten ABC match - Letter naming is definitely at the top of my Kindergarten list of things I want my students to retain. I created this fun game of upper and lowercase letters (notice they also have a beginning sound picture to increase that sound fluency, as well).