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Skip Counting Songs for Multiplication & More!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ I am SO excited to tell you about one of the newest additions to our collection of animated videos: Skip Counting for Multiplication and MORE ! This video collection is filled with FUN, pop and rock style songs that help kids learn to count by twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens, eights, nines, tens, elevens and twelves! PLUS, it has songs to teach keywords for multiplication, division, mode & range, and place value! It is avai...
   

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. ...
   

When You're OVERLOADED with DISRUPTIVE Kids Who JUST WON’T STOP!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Have you ever had a class with so many difficult, disruptive students that you felt that you could barely even teach? What can you do to get past it? How can you get control of a group when you are completely outnumbered by children that are hurting with issues beyond your control, and the administration is already doing all they can to help you? In this post, I am going to address this problem with my best advice, and some advice from other...
   

Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Week Two!

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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Do you struggle to come up with lesson plans for your kindergarten class?  Well, here are my lesson plans for the SECOND week of kindergarten! My post called "Kindergarten Lesson Plans, Week One" continues to be at the very top of the list of my most popular posts, so I decided to post my lesson plans for the second week as well.  And depending on the how popular this post is, I will continue to post my lesson plans as I go along i...