Meaningful morning messages

I’ve decided that this is the year I want to work on making my morning messages more meaningful each day. I’ve been working different skills into my morning messages so that it helps me and the children focus in on what our target skill will be for that day/week. This week, we have been focusing [...]

Name Chart

Here is our name chart that we have created!  It hangs on our front board right next to our name word wall.  A few weeks ago, I asked if it was redundant to have both and after having both, I’m beginning to think it’s not at all redundant.  We are quickly able to sort ourselves [...]

Interactive Writing

Just curious to know how many of you out there have read Interactive Writing by McCarrier, Pinnell and Fountas. I’ve started reading it now that grad classes are over for 3 weeks.  What are your favorite ideas that you use from it in your kindergarten classroom?  I can’t wait to try the names chart–that’s a [...]