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A Yearly Plan for Science & Social Studies 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! __________________________________________________________________________ In this post, I will share with you my monthly themes for science and social studies for Kindergarten!  I recently received an email in which the teacher was asking me to share my long range plans for science and social studies, so I wrote them out quickly for her.  I always think that if one person has a question, there are probably many more with the same question, so I wanted to share it! I’ll also link to some of the reso...
   

How to Do Guided Reading with Informational Text (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! __________________________________________________________________________ Have you ever tried to do a guided reading lesson with kindergartners using little non-fiction "science" easy readers?  Teaching kids to read informational texts is "hot" right now in the educational world, and teachers are often pressured to use it in their classroom more and more often- even at the Kindergarten level! Although this may sound a bit intimidating, my experience is that children REALLY ENJOY reading and l...
   

Making LIFE SIZE Zoo Animals!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ The snake was so long that it was difficult to photograph! These are the completed snakes. This week, I created some giant zoo animals out of butcher paper for my kids to paint!  So I am going to tell you a little bit about how I did that, and then let the pictures tell the rest of the story. To create the animals, I just took the patterns from the Zoo Book that is on our website and basically multiplied the size times fi...
   

Teaching Kindergarten: What's Working? Week #10 - Farm Fun!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Week 10 is all about Farm Fun! This post includes recommendations for read aloud farm books, graphing our favorite animals, "Our School Farm," singable book, and a farm themed game. Well, I am still out this week, but the doctor says I should be able to go back to work on Monday. Meanwhile, I missed our wonderful Farm Fun Day at school, and also our Halloween Fun Day- two special events that I greatly enjoy and was very sorry to have m...