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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! __________________________________________________________________________ Today I am going to tell you how I made a Thanksgiving Draw-and-Tell Story.  It was fun and easy, and the children LOVED it!  Not long ago, I read a blog entry from “Teach Preschool”’s Deborah Stewart called Thanksgiving time story telling with symbols in preschool .  I have done other kinds of “Draw and Tell” stories before, and they have always been very well received, so this should have been no surprise...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Introducing our new Phonics Coloring Worksheets for Word Families, which give kids practice finding & reading words with common phonics spelling rules, & a chance to color creatively, too!  They also give children practice reading and contrasting words from two different word families, so this is really great practice in sounding out words. As children find and color the pictures according to ...

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 love the Elf on the Shelf book , and my students always LOVE the fun of running into the room and searching for the little stuffed elf each morning when they enter the classroom.  So this year, I decided to create a special Elf on the Shelf art project that the children could each take home and use in the same way!  My inspiration for the project was an old toilet tube Santa project that I used to make with our fifth grade book bu...

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 case you have never heard of them, SitSpots are pieces of extremely strong, bright colored velcro cut into lots of fun shapes and forms, designed by a super nice, hard working Kindergarten teacher, just like you and me!  Once you stick them down on the carpet and they "set" for about three days, they are VERY hard to remove.  So they can be used for TONS of different things.  The activities are only limited by your imagina...

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 give you TEN fun ideas to use in guided reading groups with children in Kindergarten, first grade, or even Transitional Kindergarten (TK)! These activities and mini lessons are fun ways to help children learn to read, and are super simple and easy to implement. I have been developed most them over the past several years in Kindergarten, and refined them this year as I have taught TK. If you are unfamiliar with how to do re...