HeidiSongs Teaching Resource

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 excited to tell you about a new idea I have been trying recently:  word building with sticky notes!  Did you know that you can print right on sticky notes with most printers?  I was able to print the entire alphabet and all of the Sounds Fun digraphs and vowel pairs on the tiny sticky notes fairly easily.  Sticky notes are much cheaper than purchasing magnetic letters and trays, too, which would be the l...

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 going to tell you about a very simple, LOW PREP game that really WORKS to help kids practice their sight words!  Actually, it could be used to practice any concept, and the kids really love it!  The funny thing is that I’ve used it with Kindergartners, first graders AND second graders- and they have ALL just LOVED this little game!  We call it “The Cube Game” because they earn Unifix Cubes while they play, but if y...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Finding and managing appropriate "morning work" in Kindergarten is often a somewhat tricky classroom management problem to solve.  Since children at this age typically can not yet read independently, a Kindergarten and first grade teacher's choices to keep children busy first thing in the morning are really quite limited!  Yet there is no denying that teachers really DO need a few minutes to do things such as tak...

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! ...