I live in a beautiful part of California where we are fortunate enough to have apple orchards.  Each year I collect several types of apples ...

Kindergarten round-up or pre-assessment day.  How does your school  do it?  Last year we tried something different.  What we were doing in t...

Home-to-school communication is vital, especially in kindergarten.  Establishing that connection between home and school in the early years ...

Who doesn't like free?  In our family we have a saying Free is always within budget. With Target and Walmart putting out those schoo...

Calendar time has always been a very important daily routine in my kindergarten classroom.  In fact if you ask any kindergarten teacher, I&#...

As a teacher it does get tiring hearing that phrase "oh it must be nice having the summers off"  Yes , it is nice, but I really d...

Imagine it is the beginning of the school year, you've just assessed all of your kindergarten kids and guess what, only a few know some ...

It's that time of year when teachers are cleaning up their classrooms, packing up and saying so long kids. Many teachers, like me, like ...

Scentos Smelly Markers are Magical!!!  If you want to motivate students to work faster, to write neater or do their personal best, dangle th...