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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, everybody!  And happy summer!  In this post, I am going to show you how to teach some basic critical thinking skills to young children in a way that they can easily understand.  Explaining things such as inference, prediction, cause and effect, and forming opinions to children as young as Kindergarten and first grade is really not as hard as you might think!  In fact, many of the thinking skills that are expecte...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ And... here they are our TEN most popular blog posts of 2016 for your "consideration and review!" :) (If you're reading this now, in 2019, let's call this a THROWBACK post! LOL) It's always fun to look back on the year, remember what I was writing about, and think about which posts were the most popular and why.  It seems to me that I REALLY need to get back to Kindergarten, because it seems that's where most of my readers are! ...

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 am going to tell you how to use a simple tool called "ThinkMarks" to help young children understand informational text that they are reading or hearing someone read aloud.  ThinkMarks are really just small sticky notes with symbols on them that represent different types of thoughts, such as what the topic is or perhaps an important detail or new word.  Teachers might want to have children put them on things like the ...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Today I have some free downloadable questions and activities for teaching critical thinking skills with Holiday Traditions Around the World to Kindergarten, first, and second graders!  Okay,  I know, I know.   I bet you're thinking that you are way too busy to even bother with critical thinking right now!    But truthfully, this is a GREAT time to include critical thinking in your curriculum, because c...