Help your little one boost their early reading and listening comprehension skills as well as retelling abilities with this digital download of our original poem, "Five Little Apples"! This poem helps support rhyming, rhythm, and reading dialogue with expression. Your little one can learn to recite the poem by themselves, act it out as they listen, or retell the poem on their own! THIS IS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD! If you would like to purchase a hard copy that is dry erase friendly with 5 wooden…

Howdy! I am Mr. Greg from The Kindergarten Smorgasboard. My real name is Greg Smedley-Warren. I have been teaching for 11 years. I spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and am now in my 9th year in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is my passion and my calling but honestly, that wasn’t how it started. When I was moved to Kindergarten (not voluntarily!) I called my mommy and cried. But on the first day, I fell in love and knew that Kindergarten is where I belonged. I have…

A blog about teaching ideas and free resources, focusing on kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.

This month is September so we are working hard to learn the Letter Aa and the sound the letter A makes. We have done several different activities this month but this is one of my favorite this

Apples! Apples!

A is for Apples - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The document is a blog post about a "Mommy School" philosophy for teaching toddlers through hands-on activities and experiences rather than pencil and paper tasks. The blogger believes toddlers learn best by seeing, doing, and exploring concepts in their own way. She provides activity ideas for an "Apples" theme, including apple sorting, sensory play with different apple textures, crafts like apple…

Well, I'm slightly behind on showing you what we did for our Apple Week. I know I showed you my visual plans {HERE} but I never came back to show you our week. So, consider this pho-tog dump of pictures (yes, there are a ton!) First, I copied off all the pages from my Hands-On Apple Unit that I wanted in our book this year and had a volunteer make all the books. Then I sent home the donation and volunteer letter. Throughout the week, we did apple-themed activities such as Apple Jacks Math…

Integrating curriculum through thematic teaching not only makes teaching more exiting for the teacher, it makes the learning more meaningful for students! Additionally, teaching thematically makes practicing academic skills to mastery more enjoyable. After all, the typical practice time for

Never planned to homeschool, now wouldn't trade it for the world

Hey guys! Once again...it's been awhile since I posted! So sorry! Kindergarten is crazy! I feel like time is going by super fast and very slow all at the same time. Does that make sense? It's just making me so tired. I've been going to bed at like 9 most nights so blogging hasn't been a priority. In an effort to get caught up, I'm going to post about both apples and pumpkins! I love this time of year and there are always lots of fun things to teach about during the fall. The kids love…