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Creepy Carrots: A Free Halloween Craftivity!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Here is another fun, FREE craft for kids based on the book Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds, with SUPER FUN pictures by Peter Brown!  Did you enjoy the free Creepy Pair of Underwear craftivity from a few weeks ago?  Well  Creepy Carrots is the sort of like the companion book to A Creepy Pair of Underwear - and it is just as much fun as the other one! When I first got this book out and showed it to one of my students...
   

Making Dinosaur Imprint “Fossils” with Play Dough!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Here is a fun little activity to help teach kids about how dinosaur imprint fossils were formed!  I did this with my second graders last year after our unit on rocks and fossils, just for fun and to give them a chance to use the academic vocabulary words “fossil” and “imprint.”  And as expected, they LOVED it!  It’s fun and easy, and all you need is some play dough and some toy dinosaurs, which I borrowed for this activity. ...
   

Guided Reading in Kindergarten: The Basics!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ In this post, I will tell you how to do guided reading in Kindergarten. Yes, you CAN teach kids to READ in Kindergarten, and I’m going to tell you WHY and HOW! If you are already implementing guided reading in your kindergarten classroom, then that’s awesome! If you haven’t started, then it’s time to jump on the guided reading bandwagon, because it’s the very best way to get your little ones started down the path towards becoming real readers...
   

How to Teach Phonics with HeidiSongs

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ In this post, I am going to explain how I teach phonics using HeidiSongs materials, specifically the Sounds Fun Phonics program that I created. "Sounds Fun Phonics" is a supplemental multi-sensory phonics program designed for musical, active learners in Kindergarten, first, and second grade.  I designed it to compliment any existing phonics program that you already use, and is especially great for kids with ADHD, ADD, or learning disabi...