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Counting Creatures Update- Now More Number WRITING Practice!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ This week, I am excited to tell you that we recently updated our Counting Creatures Volume One number worksheets to include more opportunities for the children to practice WRITING the numerals in addition to simply COUNTING them! This is a great addition to these practice sheets, and I know that my students have already benefited from doing them. So why did I decide to change them?  When I taught Kindergarten, it seemed li...
   

How I Taught My Kindergartners 125 Sight Words

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Are you faced with the seemingly IMPOSSIBLE task of teaching your little ones a MOUNTAIN of sight words?  During my teaching career, I was never required to teach my kindergartners more than 50, although many of them went above and beyond those requirements. Recently, I "met" a very talented teacher online who told me that her entire Kindergarten class had mastered 125 words! I was amazed, and so we started chatting about her exp...
   

Mega Bloks Alphabet & Beginning Sounds Match Idea

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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’s a fun idea for those Mega Bloks that are sitting in a tub, just waiting to be put to good use!  It’s my Mega Bloks Alphabet and Beginning Sounds Match Idea!  It’s easy-peasy and so much fun for the kids to put together! And if you already have our Alphabet Workbook Volume 2 , then you already have what you need! Supplies: 1. You will need a good supply of Mega Bloks .  This set that I have linked to has 150 pie...
   

TK Lesson Plans, Week Four: What’s Working?

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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 are my best lessons from week four of Transitional Kindergarten, also known as TK! We had a great week working on the letter A, the number two, the shapes, matching sets, scissor skills, and learning how to spell the sight word “the.”  I can’t wait to tell you all about it, so here we go! Finding the Letter A Visual discrimination is a big part of learning the letters, and so is the development of fine motor skills.  So...
   

The Second Week of TK: What’s Working?

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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 what we did on the second week of TK, or Transitional Kindergarten!  We had fun with rhyme, alphabet and number activities, nursery rhymes, patterning, sorting, small group reading activities, and we even started learning a few sight words!  Ready to hear all about it?  Here we go! First, let me explain that my volunteers started this week, and I am EXTRAORDINARILY BLESSED this year!  So far, I have usually ...