What Do Your Parents Do? A Kindergarten Class Book
This week’s Tuesday Teaching Tip is brought to us by California Kindergarten Association Board Member, Kimberly DeMille. She made this super adorable class book with her students. For the front cover, she used Handwriting Without Tears slates- but she’s also seen some at Michael’s. How cute is that, right? Do you enjoy making class books? We’d love to hear about...
Read MoreTransitional Kindergarten Takes a Field Trip… to Africa!
CKA Co-President and Transitional Kindergarten teacher Debra Weller shares this week’s Tuesday Teaching Tip with us. “After a pretend jet ride, we “landed” in a mud village in West Africa. From brown and tan construction paper the children made “mud” houses. They used oil pastels to paint the patterns on the houses.” For more great Transitional...
Read MoreUnfinished Papers Finishing You Off? Tame the Mess with this Simple Tip!
It never fails. Time is up for an activity and at least one child if not more just aren’t done, leaving a pile of unfinished papers and possibly other materials floating around, and inevitably getting lost. Not to mention how they tend to get all mixed together and that’s when you discover the kids in question forgot to write their names… Enter Karen Anderson, kindergarten...
Read MoreTransitional Kindergarten Math Gets All Wet
The end of the year is in sight and despite the recent weather, summer is around the corner! CKA Board Member, Heather Morrow has a math activity she did with her Transitional Kindergarten class which is designed to keep things “cool” and going, ahem, “swimmingly”. ;) “Students were in pairs and they got a fish template and a 1/2 sheet of paper. They worked...
Read MoreA Special Poem to Say Good-Bye
The end of the year is right around the corner! The end of Kindergarten is such a huge transition for many kids. Here’s a sweet poem to share with your students to remind them how special they are to you: Dear _________, You’re a very special person And ________, you should know How I loved to be your teacher And how fast the year did go! We did a lot of special things- We...
Read MoreOur 31st Annual Conference
We are thrilled to announce that our 31st conference in January, was a huge success! We are so thankful to Jim Gill, Peggy Campbell Rush and all of our great presenters who made it a fabulous time. It was wonderful to see so many of you there! We hope you're planning to join us in 2014!
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