Caterpillar Sight Words
Looking for a quick and easy way to practice sight words? CKA Treasurer and veteran Kindergarten teacher, Heather Hardaway Morrow shares today’s adorable Tuesday Teaching Tip with us that’s perfect for this time of year! Here’s a fun sight word activity with very little prep. Students write one letter on each segment of the caterpillar to form a sight word. I set out...
Read MoreHop Through Spring with these Rabbit Books and a Traditional Call and Response
CKA Co-President and Transitional Kindergarten teacher Debra Weller shares this great traditional call and response with us: Oh John the Rabbit Got a mighty habit (Yes, Ma’am) Jumping in my garden (Yes, Ma’am) Eating up my cabbage (Yes, Ma’am) My sweet potatoes (Yes, Ma’am) My fresh tomatoes (Yes, Ma’am) And if I live, to see next fall (Yes, Ma’am) There...
Read MoreAn Easy-Peasy Kindergarten Writing Center
Looking for a quick and easy writing center? Look no further! CKA Board Member, Kimberly DeMille shares this awesome idea with us that will have your kids writing up a storm in no time. She simply gives her students a stack of cards with pictures of CVC words on them. Then they write them in their own color marker on a white board. Genius – right? What’s even better is how...
Read MoreChicks and Chickens – Integrate Science, Art and Kindergarten Writing all into One Lesson!
Today’s Tuesday Teaching Tip is once again brought to us by CKA co-president Debra Weller. She begins by reading the book Chicks and Chickens by Gail Gibbons to her class. To make the project, you will need: tan construction a paper scissors glue sticks feathers small red, yellow, and white construction paper rectangles lined paper a chicken shaped stencil (could easily be created by...
Read MoreSheep Math – Addition Practice Goes to the Farm
CKA Co-President Debra Weller shares this week’s Tuesday teaching tip with us. She gives her children a piece of construction paper, a pencil, glue, a Sharpie marker, crayons and dice. She instructs them to roll one die, and mark the number in pencil on the left side of the paper. Then they write the plus sign. Next, they roll the die and write the number on the right side of then...
Read MoreUnifix Cubes Letters – A Quick and Easy Hands-On Activity
Looking for a quick and easy way to review letters with your Transitional Kindergarten class? Here’s something CKA Board Member Heather Hardaway Morrow did with her kids. She gave them some unifix cubes, had them spread out on the class rug and… Genius, right?! No letters on your carpet? No problem! You could easily write letters with a Sharpie on a cheap shower curtain, or...
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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