Kindergarten writing center beginning of year

Have you been wondering how-to-use writing journals in kindergarten to practice handwriting, encoding, fine motor, and more? Writing journals are also great for showing growth and development throughout the year! Keep reading for more tips and a Science of Reading aligned FREE printable to help you get started with writing journals in kindergarten!

What does writers workshop look like on the second week of school? Check out these kindergarten writers workshop tips!

First grade teachers, grab these FREE first week of school center activities to make planning your back to school centers so much easier. Planning centers in first grade can be challenging, especially the first week of school. These fun and engaging free center activities are perfect for the beginning of first grade. They focus on foundational skills for first grade including beginning sounds, ending sounds, CVC words, and color words. Grab these free centers for first grade here.

Kindergarten name activities are such a fun and hands on way to engage your students at the beginning of the year. Not only can students practice name recognition, but these activities also pair perfectly with kindergarten read alouds like "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" and "A My Name is Alice".

These kindergarten writer's workshop tips will keep your students engaged in writing all year long! Tip number 2 is always a class favorite. #KindergartenWriting #WritersWorkshop #MrsRichardsonsClass

Each year, we collect work examples and art projects to create our year long scrapbook. It is something that takes time and effort BUT it is so worth it in the end.

In this blog post: Thinking about setting up a writing center in your classroom? Find the best Kindergarten writing center ideas and activities for here. The writing center has long been one of my favorite literacy centers for Kindergarten. It’s easy to set up, easy(ish) to manage, and students absolutely LOVE going there! If you […]

We all LOVE break and dread look forward to going back to school! No matter if we like it or not it will come! I just love putting together these monthly posts to help prepare for the new month! This posts will be filled with ideas and giveaways…yippee! Last January was the first edition of my...

These 5 simple kindergarten writing center ideas will make your writing center set up so much easier! Tips like keeping the center predictable and having writing tools handy will help you create a fun and easy writing center.

Kindergarten Writing Center - Apples and ABC's

The beginning of the day can be stressful. You are trying to greet students as they walk in at different times, answer questions, help students unpack and settle in, all the while taking attendance and hot lunch count and listening to announcements to make sure you don’t miss anything important for the day. In the...

Teaching writing can be hard, especially in Kindergarten! I have five tips for you to support your emergent writers in the drawing stage.

Read for tips and ideas on how to set up and manage an effective writing center in your kindergarten classroom.

Take a peek at our preschool writing center setup for this week! We’ve equipped the area with two sets of word cards: one set is displayed on the board...

Coloring Anchor Chart, Kindergarten

I jump right into centers the first week of school. They aren't all academic, a lot are play based; however, I really want to get the kids...

The back to school dreams have started, my room is almost ready, and summer has come to an end, which can only mean the first day of school is upon us! I wanted to spend some time today talking about all things Kindergarten, especially the first few weeks of school… The Good, The Bad, and...