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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 friends!  This week, I am going to tell you about my weekly routine for planning my language arts lessons in Kindergarten!  When following this routine, my lesson plans were easy to make and I covered everything that the children needed to know throughout the year.  If I ever had to change things around, it was usually because of an administrative requirement of some kind or another, such as a lesson that I had to do for ...

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 we are sharing some great ways to utilize the  CVC workbook and flashcards . This idea comes from  Mrs. Parker  and includes a really great way of adding movement into the classroom as well as other ideas about how to turn flashcards into a game. We hope you are enjoying seeing the wonderful submissions to our Idea Contest as much as we are enjoying sharing them! (FYI, I do get commissions for the SitSpot links...

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! I am excited to share with you the winning idea from our Idea Contest from years back!  It's called "The Alpha Mat," and it is used to teach the letters and sounds .  I hope you enjoy this great idea. You can find out how to make the Alpha Mat by watching Diane's great video below, which explains it very well!  Here are links to where you can purchase the supplies for the Alpha Mat: 1. Clear vinyl envel...

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 there!  Today I am very happy to announce that I have finished creating another set of my popular I Spy Print Books:  I Spy CVC Words Vol. 2 Print and Fold Books!  This set goes along with my CVC Book Vol. 2, whereas the first set went along with the words in my CVC Book Vol. 1.  (They contain different word families.)  These are great tools for teaching comprehension, because they require kids to THINK...

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 teach first grade?  Here is a round-up of my favorite literacy center ideas for those Fabulous Firsties!  Many of these will also work for advanced Kindergartners, too, of course!  And if you haven't heard the news, well, it's TRUE!  I'll be teaching a first/second grade combination class next year!  My mind has been whirling with ways to adapt these ideas to the concepts taught in second grade as wel...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Learning to sound out words can be really hard for some children to master, especially in Kindergarten.  My district now has the children tested not only on sounding out CVC words as before, but also nonsense words as well.  Here are some methods that I have come up with that work really well for me. One thing to keep in mind is that certain consonants will be easier to start with than others, since they can be drawn out....