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Tips for Teaching Kids to Write on Lined Paper!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Today I am excited to share some great tips to help teach kids to write on lined paper! If you are like me, teaching kids to write the alphabet on lined paper has always been one of my LEAST favorite things to do in Kindergarten, and I was VERY surprised to see that writing the alphabet from memory was on our TK (transitional kindergarten) report card! So I set out to see what my now five and a half year old students would be able to handle....
   

"My class is so low! I don't even know where to start! Can you help me?"

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ "My class is so low!  I don't even know where to start!  Can you help me?" This is a question that I often get asked via email, so I thought that I would go ahead and post this reply as on my blog, just in case anyone else has the same question.   I hope that at least a few of you will find it helpful. The idea for this frame came from the blog here!   We think we are going to do something similar for Mother's Day...
   

Teaching Kindergarten: What's Working? Week #7

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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.  We LOVE  the Alphabet Action song! My class this year is fun to teach because they seem to just LOVE the songs!  And this year, they are very enthusiastic about the Alphabet Action song, in particular, from the Letters and Sounds DVD .  They also constantly request to sing the Number 20 song from Jumpin’ Numbers Vol. 2 , and Zero the Hero song from the Number Jumble DVD ! Someone emailed me this week and aske...