Back to school provocations

Looking for all about me or get to know you activities for first day or first week of kindergarten. Making self portraits with loose parts is just one of the fun activities and ideas you'll find that will help you get to know your students in the beginning of the school year. Great for kindergarten and first grade students.

At the beginning of every year my teaching partner and I incorporate lots of name recognition, construction, and writing provocations to engage children. Here are some of our favourites so far this…

Hi friends! I love when other people post about their classroom set-up so today I thought I would show you ours! This is the first year that I am in the same room as the year before. We had a set-up that worked well so we kept it very similar for now. Here is a look from my teacher desk: This picture was taken before the first day of school. You can see that my walls are pretty bare! We will be filling them up with the student's work, co-created board titles and anchor charts very soon. Here…

Handwriting has never been easy to teach to kindergartners, but it is in the Common Core Standards that they learn how to print letters correctly. Each year I have tried through the traditional ways of working on fine motor skills the first half and then formal handwriting sheets the second half of the year. It never worked so this year I tried something new... An inquiry about lines! I asked the kids what kind of lines they knew of. At first they drew straight lines, but then started to…

Simple Literacy Provocations from Fairy Dust Teaching! #literacy #provocations

Purposefully developing relationships with parents is so very important to our classroom learning community. I want parents to feel that they are part of our learning community and know that we are all a team doing everything we can to help their child reach their fullest potential: Parent/Teacher/Child. I start out the year meeting parents during our Kindergarten Screening process. I wanted parents to be able to create something special for their child while they were waiting so I put our…

A Pinch of Kinder - Sorting Centre - Open-Ended Sorting Invitation/Provocation