Monthly Archives: November 2009
Ask If You Can Share Any Of Your Holiday Traditions With Your Child’s Kindergarten Class
Many of our Kindergarten students and their families are busy preparing for the upcoming holidays that will happen in December. Our classrooms are becoming more and more diversified and we must not overlook other holidays that occur not only at … Continue reading
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Keeping Routines For Your Child During The Holiday Season
Thanksgiving has come and gone and many families are now preparing for even more holidays in December. This is the time of the year when daily routines are difficult to follow as there are a limited amount of hours in … Continue reading
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Learning In Kindergarten During The Cycle of Holidays
Fall is a very busy time in Kindergarten. Once the children get acquainted with their new teacher and classmates, the first round of standardized testing began. Then came fall festivities to include getting ready for Halloween and going out trick … Continue reading
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On Thanksgiving Kindergartners Can Write What They Are Thankful For
Happy Thanksgiving to all Kindergartners and their families! Today you might ask people at your Thanksgiving gathering to either write down or talk about 3 things that they thankful for. A 5 year old might need an adult or older … Continue reading
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Learning To Count On
Many Kindergartners do not realize that in Kindergarten we are doing math all throughout the day and just because we aren’t calling it math, it doesn’t mean it isn’t math. Every day we count to a pattern of clapping and … Continue reading
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Which Children Do Teachers Remember Long After The School Year Is Over?
Teachers teach many children every school year. I am teaching 52 children this year and when you think that I have been doing this for over 30 years..that’s a lot of children that I have taught. I have seen every … Continue reading
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Kindergartners And The Thanksgiving Table
All the Kindergartners that I know are very excited about Thanksgiving. They all know that they are going to eat turkey and lots of it. They all know a little about the Pilgrims and a little about the Native American … Continue reading
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Bedtime Mental Math
When your child is all tucked into bed at night, this is a great time to do some mental math. Lie down beside your child and let the thinking begin. Just say out loud, “2 plus 2” and tell your … Continue reading
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Check Your Child’s Backpack EVERY Day
I discussed the importance of learning to empty backpacks at home and at school in Blog 54 but it bears repeating. Kindergarten teachers are teaching Kindergartners to look in, and empty their backpacks every day upon arriving at school. Parents, … Continue reading
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When A School Bus With Flashing Lights Stops, You MUST Too
Several times in the past few weeks I have witnessed cars rushing by a stopped school bus with flashing lights that was loading children. This has happened on right on our school property. We have two sessions a day of … Continue reading
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