Hello! Today, I want to tell you a little bit about how you can help kids improve their reading comprehension in general and do better on AR (Accelerated Reader) quizzes…
Do you do DIBELS at your school? If you are a parent, does your child take DIBELS tests? DIBELS seems to be quite a mystery for many adults, both parents…
When children fail tests, parents often panic. And when children fail tests like DIBELS that parents have never even heard of and don’t understand, the feeling intensifies! I have…
Every year in Kindergarten, there are always a few children in my class who struggle with sound discrimination, or the ability to “hear” and distinguish between the beginning sounds in…
Defiance, disrespectfulness, kids yelling “NO!” is what a teacher’s classroom management nightmares are made of! These days, most teachers may have had one or two defiant children in their class…
Here is a really fun math center that you can make with just some plastic eggs and a permanent marker to help kids practice matching sets, numbers, and number words. I call…
Preschool math instruction is fundamental, and how well a child learns the basic concepts during this foundational time can make the defining difference in whether or not a child sees…
Are you looking for an easy Morning Meeting routine to follow? Here, I will explain the typical morning routine that I (Heidi) follow. It’s filled with music and quick, interactive…
Most children are taught to read in kindergarten these days, and this is now a big surprise to many parents, who have fond memories of blocks, painting, stories, play dough,…
If you are having trouble getting through a lesson without interruptions, you’ll be happy to hear that this is a classroom management skill you can learn by changing just a…