The beginning of the school year is upon us, and, if you are like us, you are hard at work making your daily schedule. It can be a daunting task sometimes, so in this podcast, we’ll give you some ideas for how to make your day work for you!

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Today our podcast will be a little different. We’ll be sharing with you a recording of a video presentation Kathy made for ESGI. In this presentation, you’ll learn some great strategies for effective intervention in your classroom, or tips on how to group your students for ELA centers.

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In our opinion, Kindergarten is the very best grade you could ever hope to teach! In this podcast episode, we’ll tell you why! Find us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and let us know your favorite things about teaching Kindergarten!

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This is going to be a great podcast interview for our listeners who are new teachers or new to kindergarten. Vanessa provides you with some great ideas and tips for making your first years stress free!

Vanessa Levin is a Pre-K teacher with more than 20 years of classroom teaching experience. She is committed to helping teachers teach better, save time, and live more by providing them with everything they need to create a fun and engaging learning environment, lesson plans, and activities for their little learners. As an early childhood trainer, she has spoken to thousands of teachers in person at popular early childhood conferences such as Frog Street Splash, I Teach K! and NAEYC. She was honored to receive the 2012 CCAEYC Trainer of the Year Award. Her work has been featured in Scholastic Teacher magazine and on popular websites like BuzzFeed. You can learn more about Vanessa by visiting her website PreK Pages.

Vanessa is hosting a free online summit for early childhood educators July 15 - 19, 2019! Visit this link to sign up for this year’s Soar To Success Summit.

You can also get Vanessa’s free ebook here.

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Have you ever wondered what to do with all of the other students when you are doing small group work? Never fear! We have some ideas for you to get your students working independently!

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Are you looking for some great writing activities, ready to print and go!

My students love these "Folk-Tale" based writing activities. Complete with "I Can- Task Cards."

Story Elements Anchor Chart
Story Elements Student Worksheet
Adjectives Anchor Chart
Adjectives Student Worksheet
The Hen: Can, Has, Is Anchor Chart
The Hen: Can, Has, Is Student Worksheet
Write About the Wolf (Adjectives/Can, Has, Is)
Label-It I Can Chart
Label-It Student Worksheets
Make a List I Can Chart
Make a List Student Worksheet
Little Red Word Wall
Write a Story I Can Chart
Write a Story Prompt Worksheet
Write The Room
Write the Room I Can Chart
Backwards Words Chart
Backwards Word Cards
Backwards Word Worksheets


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Building a bank of sight words with early readers allow students to become better readers! Introducing those words in a variety of ways will help meet the needs of a diverse class of learners. These fun, varied, games will be a hit in your classroom. These games focus on the first 200 Fry sight words as well as sight word phrases. They are easily differentiated to meet the needs of your group.

Contents include:

Top Knight

The Monster Party

Dinosaur Friends

Munchy Munch

Collecting Bugs

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Strategically Linked to the common core, this best-selling Thematic plant unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading for cross-curricular learning.

The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your classroom or homeschool students begging for more.

Math Center Activities

Flowering Math: Joining Sets

Watermelon War: Comparing Numerals

Garden Party: Demonstrating Subtraction 

Counting Seeds: Count out items to match a given number.

Planting Seeds: Making Combinations to 10 

Adding Flowers

Garden Takeaway

Plant a Garden Ways to Make 8

Reading Center Activities:

Flower Garden: Reading Sight Word & CVC Word Sentences (or alphabet recognition).

Tip Toe Through the Tulips: Alphabet letter sound fluency (or sight word fluency)

Run Rabbit Run: Alphabet Letter Fluency

In the Garden: Naming Sight Words

Greenhouse Words: Reading Sight Words

Blooming Words: Isolating Phonemes & Writing CVC Words From Dictation

The Garden Show: Writing Color Words

Science Activities

Building a Science Center

A Seed Grows: Planting a seed in a bag

Kitchen Science: Edible Dirt

Plant Parts: Observation of Plants

The Thirsty Stem: Capillary Action In Plants

Seed Sorting: Using the Scientific Process

Art Projects

Plant Parts: Portfolio Sample

Artful Flowers

Mother's Day Flower

Fingerprint Flowers

Songs

Watermelon Pie 

Inch by Inch (adapted) by David Mallet

Plant A Seed

Guided Reading

The Little Seed

Writing

Plant Word Wall Words

Prompts: All About Seeds,What I Know About Plants

I Can Writing: Label it, list it card it

Pond Thematic Unit

Pond Independent Writing Center Activities

Spring Themed Guided Readers

Spring Themed Intervention Games

Lamb and Lion Spring Themed Activities

Each activity is clearly written, easy to use, and needs limited preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your students begging for more!

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Put the Science of Reading into action! 

Arr! 

Spice up your student's learning with these great pirate themed sight word and decodable books! And they are differentiated!

Pirate theme books make learning to read fun and engaging! Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Plus your kiddos will love them!

Book Titles and Levels

I Like Pirates-

X Marks The Spot-- Level E

The Pirates -- 

The Treasure -- 

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Do you feel like you can’t cover everything in the classroom? Maybe you are trying to cover too much? In today’s episode we will discuss our “less is more” approach to classroom teaching that helps us to focus on what’s most important for student learning. We hope it helps you too!

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This set of books is designed to use with the Wonders reading curriculum, or for anyone looking for great sight word readers that follow a logical sequence of sight word introduction, and the practice of decoding words made only from letters as they are introduced.

The sight word order for this set of readers is: I, can, the we, see, a, like, to, and, go, you, do, my, are, with, he


The letter order for this set of readers is: m, a, s, p, t, i, c, n, d, i, o, h, e, f, r

Contents Include the Following 15 guided readers.

I Can
Can
We
See
Big Things
I like
Map
To
The Twins
Go Cat
Mop
Do You?
My Family
Are You?
He Sees

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This set of books is specifically designed to use with the Wonders reading curriculum, or for anyone looking for great sight word readers that follow a logical sequence of sight word introduction, and the practice of decoding words made only from letters as they are introduced.

Includes words from Units 1-5: I, can, the we, see, a, like, to, and, go, you, do, my, are, with, he. Then Continues with the words as ordered in Units 6-10: with, is, little, she, was for, have, of, they, said, want, here, me, this, what, help, too, has, play, look, where, good, who come, does.

The letter order for Units 1-5 are: m, a, s, p, t, i, c, n, d, i, o, h, e, f, r. This set continues with those letters and then the remaining letters as introduced in Units 6-10.

Contents include:

Is it Red?

The Pest

My Little Cat

I Have

Sharing

I Want

Presents

A Fun Bug

The Bags

Help

Ben and Sal

Snacks

A Good Cat

The Pups

Where is Nan?

Be sure to Grab Set #1 Sight Word Kindergarten Readers for Wonders Units 1-5

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Today we will discuss how linguistics (the study of language) relates to teaching reading and how knowing more about phonemes, graphemes, and morphemes can improve your teaching.

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Today we are going to talk about the power of using music in your classroom. There are four artistic processes that students can engage in during a lesson. They are:

Respond

Perform

Connect

Create

During Level One lessons students are engaged in responding to or performing music, during a Level Two lesson students are responding to or performing music as connected to academic content. A Level Three lesson engages students in academic content as well as musical content, and Level Four lesson involves students in the creative process as they experience all four artistic processes.

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Hello Listeners! In this week’s podcast, we’ll be discussing some ways that you can teach your students their own names and the names of their classroom friends!

Find more great ideas on from our classrooms here.

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Speaking of making your life easier, below are two of our popular name writing units! You will LOVE them!

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Names Practice Back To School Write Names of Self and Others

Time for back to school and teaching students how to write their own names and the names of classmates and others.

Children who are in the early stages of literacy development are well served if they are familiarized with the letters that make up their own name. This will not only provide an important link between speech and print, it will help them attend to sequencing, orientation and details within the construction of a word.

The lessons of this unit will draw attention to and provide practice with writing and reading their own names and expanding the benefits gained to include the names of classmates. 

Table of Contents:

Water Cap Names: Ordering letters in names and transferring knowledge. 

Name Puzzles: Building familiarity with alphabet letters and their function when spelling one's own name.

Name Cheer: (A variation of Name Puzzles): Identifying and sequencing the letters in names. 

Shave a Name: Using correct handwriting technique to write names.

Rainbow Names: Spelling and writing names.

The "Nameapillar": Ordering letters in names.

Trace A Name: Tracing names using correct letter formation. 

Name Fishing: Reading the names of classmates, then sorting according to beginning capital letter.

Name Dictionary: Alphabetizing classmates' names.

Names: A Guided Reading Book

Name Fun: Ten Additional Name Conquering Ideas

Name Game: Studying names of classmates

Name Chart: Studying names in a Morning Meeting routine

Mosaic Names: Spelling and writing names

Name Necklace: Spelling name

Spell-a-Name: Spelling own name and names of others.

Friend of the Day: Building Community through names

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Chrysanthemum Activities To Teach Names and Build Classroom Community

You will want to go back to school with this great thematic unit focusing on name writing, names of classmates, caring, compassion, and friends. 

If you love Kevin Henke’s Chrysanthemum as much as I do, you will want to add this cute little mouse to your curriculum!

This cross-curricular thematic unit is strategically linked to academic core standards, is easy to use, and filled with fun!

Math Activities

• Measuring Names: Comparing and Contrasting the length of names

• The Numbers in my Name: Worksheet

• Chrysanthemum’s Numbers: Identifying and Naming Numbers

Literacy Activities

• Chrysanthemum's Alphabet: Alphabet Bingo

• Name Traders: Reading and Matching the Names of Self and Others.

• Character Study: Elements of a Character

Original Songs

• Names

• Clapping Names

Social Studies

• Words Hurt: Compassion and Caring

• Rules Poster: Classroom Rules

• Portfolio Sample: A Wrinkled Heart

• Portfolio Sample: All About Me

Guided Reading

• The Mouse Family

Writing

• Chrysanthemum word wall card

• All About My Name

• Name “Entrance” Tickets

Art Projects

• Making Chrysanthemum

• Guided Drawing: Chrysanthemum

• Chrysanthemum Puppet

© Kathy Crane

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This cross-curricular thematic unit is strategically linked to academic core standards, is easy to use, and fill with fun!

Math Activities

Measuring Names: Comparing and Contrasting the length of names

The Numbers in my Name: Worksheet

Chrysanthemum’s Numbers: Identifying and Naming Numbers

Literacy Activities

Chrysanthemum's Alphabet: Alphabet Bingo

Name Traders: Reading and Matching the Names of Self and Others.

Character Study: Elements of a Character

Original Songs

Names

Clapping Names

Social Studies

Words Hurt: Compassion and Caring

Rules Poster: Classroom Rules

Portfolio Sample: A Wrinkled Heart

Portfolio Sample: All About Me

Guided Reading

The Mouse Family

Writing

Chrysanthemum word wall card

All About My Name

Name “Entrance” Tickets

Art Projects

Making Chrysanthemum

Guided Drawing: Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Puppet

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Names of Self and others

Friend of the Day

Star Student

In this week's podcast we talk phonics instruction with Wiley Blevins! Dr. Wiley Blevins is a world-renowned expert on early reading, and author of the seminal book Phonics From A to Z and A Fresh Look At Phonics, among many other works. He has taught in both United States and South America, and he regularly trains teachers throughout Asia. He holds a doctorate in education from Harvard University and has worked with numberous educational scholars, including Jeanne Chall, Isabel Beck, Marilyn Adams, Louisa Moats, Dianne August, and others.

In this weeks episode, Dr. Blevins will join us to talk about his book A Fresh Look At Phonics. I just finished reading this book and it's made a huge difference to my understanding and teaching of Phonics this year. One of my favorite parts of Blevin's book is how it breaks down the components of phonics in a way that demonstrates the systematic order we should be teaching in. With his permission, I've posted a few of my favorite tables from the book. First, a table of alphabet letters in order of utility, and then a table of the most frequent spellings of English sounds. I've also shown an example of one of Blevin's blending lines from his book. I loved the way that he builds differentiation into his blending lines, as well as review and repetition.

I highly suggest that you get yourself a copy of Blevin's book to help guide your instruction this year. I'm so happy that I've read it!

One thing that I am changing in my instruction this year, based on my reading, is building in more opportunities for my students to practice the skills  they are learning. To that end, I've created decodable sight word sets based on the most common sight words and the Wonders sight word/letter sound progression. I will use these this year to make sure my students get the independant practice they need.

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This set of books is specifically designed to use with the Wonders reading curriculum, or for anyone looking for great sight word readers that follow a logical sequence of sight word introduction, and the practice of decoding words made only from letters as they are introduced.


The sight word order for this set of readers is: a, and, for, he, is, she, in, it, that, the, was, you,


The letter order for this set of readers is: m, a, s, p, t, i, n, b, c, o, f, h, d, r, g, e, l, k

Contents Include the Following 24 guided readers.

A Map
A Map (With pictures to add)
For 
For (With pictures to add)
Dad
Dad (With pictures to add)
Cat and Bat
Cat and Bat (With pictures to add)
Mop
Mop (With pictures to add)
In It
In It (With pictures to add)
That
That (With pictures to add)
The Pet Show
The Pet Show (With pictures to add)
It is For
It is For (With pictures to add)
Was That?
Was That? (With pictures to add)
Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek (With pictures to add)
Me and You
Me and You (With pictures to add)

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This set of books is designed to use with the Wonders reading curriculum, or for anyone looking for great sight word readers that follow a logical sequence of sight word introduction, and the practice of decoding words made only from letters as they are introduced.

The sight word order for this set of readers is: I, can, the we, see, a, like, to, and, go, you, do, my, are, with, he


The letter order for this set of readers is: m, a, s, p, t, i, c, n, d, i, o, h, e, f, r

Contents Include the Following 15 guided readers.

I Can
Can
We
See
Big Things
I like
Map
To
The Twins
Go Cat
Mop
Do You?
My Family
Are You?
He Sees

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• Winter Guided Readers: Set #1
• Winter Guided Readers: Set #2

If you enjoy the podcast and can review us on iTunes that would be amazing of you! We really appreciate your reviews as they help us continue to make the podcast and help other teachers to find us. 

Kindergarten Kiosk is a proud member of the Education Podcast Network, a network of podcasts for educators by educators. Check out the other great podcasts!