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Pirate Day: Ar!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ For our last day of school, last year we had our very first Pirate Day!  It really was a blast- simply the very best last day of school I have ever had in all of the years that I have been teaching!  I have been waiting to blog about it so that it would be closer to the end of the school year for most of you.  If you have been following my blog this year, you will notice that the pictures of the children are a bit unfamilia...
   

Fire Truck Guided Drawing + Sounds Fun Phonics!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ 1.  Fire Truck Guided Drawing Recently, we visited our local fire station for a tour and a lesson in fire safety from our local heroes. I also taught the children how to draw a fire truck, so I thought I would share it with you here as a free download today! I have also thought that the fire fighters would love to have some of these pictures as thank you notes, but it sure is hard to get the children to part with them once ...
   

Moving Beyond CVC Words in Kindergarten

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ As I move into the month of May and closer to the end of the school year, I am always interested to see how far I am able to take some of my little ones that seem ready to progress beyond the basics. So in reading this week, I decided to focus on words with an “ou” spelling pattern in the middle and see how the children could do. 1. Word Family of the Week Chart, and a Great Little Game  I have used this neat little pocket...