10 Posts

Tag: TK

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- Classroom Management
- Especially For Parents

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for Beginners

Posted byby Kim Giron
5 months ago
6 min

Social Emotional Learning, aka SEL, is a buzzword you have likely heard over the last few years. Even if you haven’t heard that specific term, you’ve undoubtedly encountered content related…

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- Classroom Management
- Kindergarten

Holiday Chaos in the Classroom

Posted byby Kim Giron
7 months ago
4 min

The holidays are here. You’ve made it through Halloween (a true accomplishment) and Thanksgiving, and now it’s just smooth sailing until Christmas, right? WRONG. Even the most seasoned teachers can…

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- Classroom Management
- Kindergarten

How to Implement Centers in the Classroom: Part Two

Posted byby Kim Giron
10 months ago
5 min

Welcome back to our blog series on all things centers! Check out part one here, where we talked about the most traditional way centers are seen in a classroom setting….

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- Beginning of the School Year
- Classroom Management

How to Implement Centers in the Classroom: Part One

Posted byby Kim Giron
10 months ago
3 min

If you are a primary teacher, you likely run centers in your classroom, or have at some point in the classroom. But maybe… centers feel impossible to you. They might…

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Posted in
- Beginning of the School Year
- Classroom Management

What to Do on the First Day of School – Sample Schedule Included!

Posted byby Kim Giron
11 months ago
8 min

What to do on the First Day of School Ready or not, the start of the new year is approaching! Maybe you still have a month to go… great! Save…

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- Beginning of the School Year
- Classroom Management

Managing Defiant Behaviors in the Classroom

Posted byby Kim Giron
1 year ago
11 min

Managing defiant behaviors in the classroom can be a challenge for teachers. Behavior management is one of the most crucial aspects of working with young children. Veteran and new teachers…

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- Alphabet
- Beginning of the School Year

Ten Simple Memory Tricks to Help Kids Learn the Alphabet

Posted byby Heidi Butkus
1 year ago
4 min

Sometimes, kids have trouble learning the alphabet. And when this happens, teachers and parents will use anything and everything to help them learn. Often, inventing a mnemonic device (also known…

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HeidiSongs.tv Practice Corner makes sight word review quick and efficient!

Posted in
- Kindergarten
- Language Arts

New: HeidiSongs.tv Practice Corner for Quick Sight Words Review

Posted byby Heidi Butkus
2 years ago
3 min

As teachers, we always seem to be short on time for everything. But we’ve come up with a solution for helping you review sight words quickly and efficiently: it’s our…

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Teacher on Break: What I Do in the Summer to Prepare for the next School Year

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- Beginning of the School Year
- Classroom Management

Teacher on Break: Preparing for the New School Year

Posted byby Kim Giron
3 years ago
4 min

How do teachers prepare for the new school year? If you are a teacher who works a traditional school year, with a traditional summer break, how do you summer? Are…

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15 Mostly Free Alphabet Letter Building Ideas

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- Alphabet

15+ (Mostly) FREE Hands-On Alphabet Letter Building Ideas!

Posted byby Heidi Butkus
3 years ago
8 min

Today, I am excited to share more than 15 hands-on ways for kids to build a letter! Building alphabet letters is a great way to help children remember its shape…

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