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When You're OVERLOADED with DISRUPTIVE Kids Who JUST WON’T STOP!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Have you ever had a class with so many difficult, disruptive students that you felt that you could barely even teach? What can you do to get past it? How can you get control of a group when you are completely outnumbered by children that are hurting with issues beyond your control, and the administration is already doing all they can to help you? In this post, I am going to address this problem with my best advice, and some advice from other...
   

Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Week Two!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Do you struggle to come up with lesson plans for your kindergarten class?  Well, here are my lesson plans for the SECOND week of kindergarten! My post called "Kindergarten Lesson Plans, Week One" continues to be at the very top of the list of my most popular posts, so I decided to post my lesson plans for the second week as well.  And depending on the how popular this post is, I will continue to post my lesson plans as I go along i...
   

Pool Noodle Color Words!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Pool noodles seem to be the newest, fun, educational supply item, so I thought I would hop onto that bandwagon and try my hand at creating a pool noodle project.  Inspired by Vanessa Levin's Alphabet Pool Noodle project , I came up with this little idea for practicing building color words (or any words!) with pool noodles.  It's really quick and easy to make! Here are the supplies that you will need: One 10-12 inch piec...
   

Phonics Chunking and Coding with Smelly Markers

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Hello, everyone!  Happy Monday!  Today I am going to tell you about some fun I have been having teaching children to "code phonics chunks" with smelly markers in the first grade classroom that I have been volunteering in each week! I am very blessed that my good friend Mary, who is a first grade teacher at the wonderful school that I used to work at, is willing to let me come in and work with her students.  As some of yo...