KINDERGARTEN AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR SCHOOL VISIT Dateline: South Daytona Beach Elementary School There's only one thing better than making a school visit as an author-illustrator. Pausing to allow you to guess. {Please insert the Jeopardy theme-song-jingle for flair during this broadcast silence.} The only thing better that a school visit?  A ...

Who am I? I'm 'THE BEEZY TEACHER'      This “Beezy” teacher has been teaching for 34 years.  Starting her teaching career working as a Special Education teacher for the Austin Independent School District in Austin Texas, she decided to accept a teaching position working for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools Overseas.   After ten years ...

 READ ACROSS AMERICA AUTHOR VISIT! One of the best things about authoring a blog is the opportunity to interact with others passionate about excellence, writing their own journal for the wider-cyber world.  This has been the year for traveling the country and making visits to my blogging peers on their home turf. When I received the invitation to ...

Would you do me a big favor and pin this image? You'll want a reminder and I appreciate the ripples your pin creates. WINTER!!! It's really winter!!!! You know how I know? There are winter poems and winter rhymes in every classroom I enter.  Welcome if this is your first time here. I make my way around the country as the ...

Yesterday I talked about making short patterned books for the early reader and writer.  For more detailed information, please read yesterday’s blog and remember that only 1 sentence starter should be used per book.  The same sentence starter should be used on every page of the book.  Today I will give you part 2 of the list of Sentence Starters ...

It's FRIDAY!!! Ya got it! FINE MOTOR FRIDAY. Fine Motor Leads to Fine Arts. Welcome or WELCOME BACK!This is part 36 of an ongoing weekly series. Kindergarten Response to Picture Book, ''You're Wonderful'' (with Quilted Illustrations)  Take a look at what just arrived  at my house!It's a thank you quilt -- full of both: fine motor + fine ...

  Your child should be writing every chance that he/she gets.  Put a pencil, crayon, marker or paintbrush in your child’s hand and let them explore the writing process.  Knowing how to write your thoughts down on paper takes many, many weeks, months and years to practice.  Many incoming Kindergarten and first grade children know their letters and ...

We don’t teach spelling in Kindergarten; rather we encourage children to write down all of the sounds that they hear in words while writing.  They are not perfect in this process; however, they are also not fearful of making mistakes.  Many children arrive in Kindergarten from homes where parents wanted to give their children a jump start on ...

In Kindergarten we teach and then review every one of the 26 alphabet letters every day.  We say every letter, every day. Some philosophies on teaching the letters and sounds revolve around learning a letter a week.  However, if you don’t learn the letter M,m until after January it makes it difficult to begin to write words with all sounds if you ...

Your child will encounter many teachers in his/her lifetime. Not only will there be teachers in the classroom, but there will be just as many outside of the classroom.  He/she will have teachers in sports, after school activities, music lessons, girl/boy scouts etc.  Your child will have to listen and learn from many adults but the most important ...