Maggie's Kinder Corner

Harvest Time is ALL About Apples and Seasonal Changes! Can you finally feel it? FALL is in the air! And with the coming of Fall, apples are fresh, ready to eat, and available for your lessons! Here are some ideas and activities sure to excite and educate your students with apples and leaves. Harvest Time […]

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Hands On Name Cards are Perfect for the 1st Week of School Kids need lots of work strengthening fine motor at the beginning of school. It is sometimes shocking to see how little kids have worked with holding a pencil, or rolling play doh snakes. They need practice ASAP! that’s why I have edited and […]

Why is Labeling So Important? At the beginning of the kindergarten year, students are mostly learning letters and sounds. Depending on where they are in this process, some students can match whole words, while others are just listening for the initial consonant. Labeling helps students learn by matching what they know to the pictures! They […]

The Summer Olympics are here! The summer games are almost here! it occurred to me that we have a great opportunity to tie in learning with “olympian-size” learning successes! We are always looking for ways to celebrate writing, right? So in this article are ideas on how to kick off your year along with a […]

July Deals are Here! During the month of July, we rest up, browse tons of new ideas, and grab resources for the coming school year. The first week of this fantastic event is nearing a close, but guess what? Deals, Freebies and Giveaways will continue for the entire month! What to do NOW! Follow this […]

Assessment and Spring Digital Poetry Set We have almost made it! There are just a few days-weeks to go in this topsy-turvy year! Assessment time is here for kindergarten, and I have just the thing for you to assess letters and sounds! Follow the link to my store to grab this FREEBIE for May 30 […]

Stressed about assessment time? It is normal to be anxious about assessment time. Kindergarten is (shall we agree?) NOT the age we should be giving standardized tests to. However, we do need to gather data that IS useful for students to advance to first grade. If your district requires a standardized test for kinder, be […]

Do you use Google Keep? If you are trying to be more oranized, paper and pencil notes can be daunting. They can get misplaced, fall off of the documents you want reminders for, etc. I have used Microsoft Notes for a long time, but recently started using Google Keep. Love that it works on all […]

Handwriting in Kindergarten To some extent, teachers are waging an uphill battle with students who are developmentally unready (for the most part). If you hand a child a writing instrument (crayon, pencil, marker, paintbrush, etc.,), there is no guarantee they know how to move their hand directionally, or to hang onto it correctly. How are […]