Kindergarten Resources, Curriculum, and Teaching Ideas

Free writing journals

Yesterday, I shared the free math lapbook I made for my daughter. Depending on your child it may be appropriate for kids between 4 and 6 or so. Today I wanted to share a little bit about how I’m using the calendar pieces. She’s been taking the days of the week from the lapbook and putting them in order She’s then been using these in her daily calendar page. If...

Are you looking for some writing activities your students can do from home during this time of school closures and distance learning? A daily journal is an easy way for your students to practice their writing skills…

Teaching opinion writing can be a lot of fun in First Grade. First graders have LOTS of opinions, and they love to share them! Here are a few ideas that have helped me to teach opinion writing to first graders. Start by teaching students how to write a topic sentence. I have found that having an anchor chart with sentence starters for students to refer to is super helpful. I like to create the chart in front of the students. It might look something like this: Once the chart is completed…

Journal Writing Prompts for September through December. This is going to be perfect for my first grade group!

Mrs. Warner's first week in first grade and how she uses quick writes in a writing journal.

This resource has been a game changer for my classroom! I will never go back to regular morning work. Students have the same routine every day, but it never

50 FREE Kindergarten Writing Prompts for kids! These free story starters will inspired your kindergarten students to finish the story in their own writing journals. These are great for daily writing practice.

Today I wanted to share my Interactive Writing Notebook for First Grade. It is jam-packed with writing projects for first grade. The activities are Common Core aligned, rigorous, and FUN for students. The notebook covers numerous writing and grammar skills that are taught in first grade: beginning sentence writing, labeling, brainstorming ideas, writing narratives, informative writing, opinion writing, using transition words, how-to writing projects, letter writing, publishing, punctuation…