I am so excited to be linking back up again with Mrs. Wills' Kindergarten to share my plans for the week.  First, I want to share what we did last week.  I am new to the kindergarten world, so I knew I need some help from some amazing teachers in the blogosphere.  I decided to use Deanna Jump and Deedee Wills' Guiding Readers ELA Unit .  It has been amazing and such a time saver for me!  I want to incorporate a craftivity or art activity each week with the unit, and I couldn't really find one for Molly Lou Melon.  So, I came up with this simple little Molly Lou Melon craftivity .        The writing is from the Guiding Readers ELA Unit below. The next two weeks are going to be all about APPLES!   This upcoming week is going to be really crazy.  We have our school's fall carnival on Thursday and no school on Friday.  We had so many apple activities we wanted to incorporate that we are going to have to spread the apples out over the n...
Inferences are my favorite!  There are so many fun ways to teach students how to infer during reading.  It requires some higher order thinking skills, so it can be difficult for students to grasp.  I have some ways and ideas to make teaching making inferences super fun and engaging!  Making inferences is almost like being a reading detective who has to solve a case.   The author might not directly state something in a text.  The reader has to use the text evidence, along with their schema, to make an inference.  Making inferences can also help a student draw a conclusion. Making Inferences Worksheets, Activities, and Crafts I like to kick off the unit with a Pixar short film.  (You can find lots of these on YouTube.)  I actually show one to kick off each day of the unit as an attention grabber.  They are super quick, fun, and get the students thinking.  They are inferring and don't even realize it yet.  This is a great one to use, but there are tons more out there that would wo...
I am joining the party a little late, but here is the tour of my new classroom!  I am actually team teaching kindergarten this year with my dear friend, Holly.  You may remember her-she used to blog here at The Lemonade Stand when this little blog first got started.   We have two classrooms connected by a small hallway.  My room is used for centers, math meeting, small groups, and for math whole group for my team.  I will blog more later about how that whole process works, but for today, here is a tour of my classroom.  I will post pics of the other classroom next week. We went with Schoolgirl Style's Happy Rainbow collection to accent our kindergarten suite.  We were also inspired by Kindercraze's amazing classroom, so we combined the two themes.   They were both great because the color combinations matched perfectly with everything we already had.  All of our borders are Creative Teaching Press . This is my classroom door.  I kept it simple so that I am not c...