Teacherof20

It is the beginnning of school, and we have a week to get our classrooms ready. I am doing this, while commpleting my masters in Education, and getting ready for maternity leave in November! I want to be extra organized this year so that my LTS can pick up right where I leave off. I don't want my maternity leave to be a disservice to my students. All the bloggers I've seen have been an inspiration to me. In this blog entry, I will explain some of the plans I have for this year, as well as include pictures of my classroom. I spent a good 11 hours in my classroom on Thursday. The large part of that time was spent cleaning out closets and organizing things. This year, I plan on really focusing on my reading groups. I have allocated a spot behind my guided reading table where I put the activities I'm doing with each group. These will be in the blue, yellow, and red tubs behind my kidney table seen below: Next to the tubs you can see my guided reading shelf. Above it,

In Kinder, we teach one sight word a week at the beginning of the year, and two sight words a week towards the end of the year. In all, we learn 40 sight words throughout the whole school year. An effective technique I've found for teaching these is making flashcards for each of my students at the beginning of the year. I run off a template on card stock, and cut out the flashcards. The week that I teach them, I hand them out to the students. They write their name on the back of the card, and have a sight word bag (zip lock bag) in which they collect their sight words. The template looks like this:

Hi bloggers! I am a kindergarten teacher looking to get and share ideas. This summer, I will be organizing my math and literacy station games and activities. I am hoping that this blog will help me accomplish this, as well as share some of these with readers like you! Stay tuned...