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Felt Story Prop Boxes are a great tool for making read-aloud experiences interactive and engaging. Felt stories allow students to retell stories independently and in groups while increasing their fine motor development, imagination, vocabulary, self-expression and more!

Beading pipe cleaners can benefit fine motor development and pre-writing skills. Using letter beads can build on this activity to support phonemic awareness, phonics and more. This resource outlines and explains the different usages and benefits. https://t.co/rTRBNNUYEk

Kindergarten_Chaos: https://t.co/IqSb0p2ZPg TPT

Pattern blocks are for more than just mathematical manipulation; they benefit dexterity and fine motor development and are adaptable to many subjects. Abbie (Kindergarten_Chaos) created patterning block mats that promote phoneme mapping, blending, reading, writing, and CVC words.

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Check out Mrs. Bryant on TikTok; she shares creative and hands-on activities for teaching students phonics. Each activity promotes engagement through movement or fun games and targets various aspects of phonics, including phonemic awareness, segmentation, manipulation and more.

Pathway 2 Success has many articles surrounding SEL is you are looking for further information. Pathway 2 Success: 25 Ways to Integrate Social Emotional Learning

Social-emotional education is a priority in my teaching philosophy. I plan to integrate SEL opportunities into the curriculum/daily routine to ensure student well-being, healthy relationships and engagement. This resource outlines many effective integrations for language arts!

This resource shares effective ways to differentiate the Write the Room activity to ensure all learners can succeed:

Write the Room is a useful activity for familiarizing students with their classroom at the beginning of the year but can be used anytime. Write the Room activities support student engagement and collaboration, letter/word recognition, increasing vocabulary and writing skills.

Bingo is a fun and educational activity for all learners; you could make a version or use this specific resource. There are variations focused on different subjects and levels. This bingo focuses on level-one sight words; it promotes increasing vocabulary and reading skills.

This letter construction set is great for kindergarten. It supports fine motor skills, letter recognition/formation, and writing skills; the reference cards provide additional support. To further learning, children can build/spell words or name words starting with their letter!

For more books go to the resource below: https://t.co/3RsgMogIpB

Black History Month highlights and celebrates the culture, stories, and achievements of a beautiful community that deserve greater representation in the education system, literature and more. Below I have included several spectacular children’s books to add to your classroom!

Question of the Day is something I utilized with my Kindergarten students during placement; their name tags were accessible for reference if needed, but I would have them write their names instead. This daily activity supports reading skills, writing skills and name recognition.

Me and My Big Emotions is an amazing read centred around social-emotional development. SEL is essential for students’ well-being, developing healthy relationships, and increasing engagement/academic achievement. This Read-aloud supports both foundational literacy skills and SEL!

TPt Pink Shirt Day Activities Link:

In honour of Pink Shirt Day, here are two amazing resources: 1. A free TPT writing and art resource for grades 3 to 6; can be adapted for all grades. 2. A list of books for children as well as educators and parents about anti-bullying. Let's all do our part to make a change!