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! __________________________________________________________________________ Is your child (or student) having a hard time learning the alphabet?  Are those letters just not "sticking?" Does your child seem to know a letter one day, and then forgets it the next day- or even just a few minutes later? In this post, I will share my most recently developed techniques for helping kids learn and remember the alphabet. Check Vision- Thoroughly! During the past 30 years as a teacher, I have tried many things fo...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ These Cookie Sheet Activities are a fun, hands-on way for young children in Pre-K, Transitional Kindergarten (TK), Kindergarten or 1st Grade to identify the beginning sounds, fill in the missing letter in the alphabet sequence, match capital and lowercase letters, and match letters of the alphabet to the same letters printed in different fonts! Check out these four different packets! 1.  Cookie Sheet Alphabet ABC Order with Magneti...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ This CVC Words and Sounds Cookie Sheet Bundle Activity with Plastic Letters is a fun and easy way for young children to practice finding the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of CVC words, and then practice spelling the whole word.  When we used this in my classroom, I had GREAT results! Kids love using plastic letters, especially when they are magnetic! So the activity is even more engaging by providing a cookie sheet or other b...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ A few years ago, I wrote this blog when I moved from teaching 2nd grade to TK! I learned a lot and I hope you can glean some helpful tips from this! Enjoy! Big news!!! I am THRILLED to announce that I am “officially” changing grade levels next year from my present second grade to what they call “Transitional Kindergarten,” or “TK” next year! TK is California’s version of Pre-K, except that it generally includes just the children whose ...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Here's an idea for a literacy center I shared a few years ago that is easy and inexpensive to put together, and fun for kids, too!  I decided to call it the "Mini Bubble Bottle Beginning Sounds Center," but you could really adapt this idea to be used for middle or ending sounds as well!  All the children have to do is stretch the rubber band with the correct beginning sound picture on it around the neck of the (empty) mini...