Books to Teach Feelings and Emotions

I love to explore feelings with young children through books and through the arts, such as puppets. It is a safe way for children to explore emotions and develop empathy in a safe situation as they realize others feel emotions just like they do. How Do You Feel? By: Anthony Browne This is a simple book for young children which includes a monkey showing a variety of different feelings in ... View Post

Weekly Round-Up: December 29th, 2017

I'm so excited that we have had so much fun the last week of school. This is a late reflection of it but it was so much fun I had to write a blog post about it. It's been busy. One holiday concert for the whole school and two for our community. We had a PJ day and kid made ugly sweater day on Friday. Plus, all the hustle and bustle of the end of the year prepping to send everything home made for a ... View Post

How to Customize Your Desktop Images on a Mac

Have you ever wanted to customize your folder images on your MAC? I just learned how to do it this week and I am super excited to share it with you. It is super easy to do! First of all I create my images in powerpoint. The image size I use is 5" * 5".  I made a shape, filled it in with a background that I wanted and then added my text. Next you need to highlight everything that you ... View Post

Number Sense: One-to-One Correspondence

Developing Number Sense: Principles of Counting All concepts of number sense need to be actively taught. The one-to-one correspondence principle ensures we accurately count objects one at a time. One-to-One Correspondence Principle When children first learn to count a set of objects they often will randomly touch the objects in any order and will count the same object more than once or ... View Post

Math Journals in Kindergarten

We use journals as a part of small group instruction in our classroom. Specifically, to cover problem-solving in math. There are many ways to demonstrate problem-solving but one way I love is to use math journals. Math journals can be used as a diagnostic, formative or summative assessment. Journals are simple, easy, and kids can represent their ideas with pictures, numbers, and words. And if ... View Post

Number Sense: Abstraction Principle

Developing Number Sense: Principles of Counting All concepts of number sense need to be actively taught. The conservation principle is one of the first few principles children learn when developing their understanding of number sense. Abstraction Principle Is the ability to understand that the number of objects in a group remains set regardless of the composition of the sizes of the ... View Post