K is for Kindergarten

I usually like to keep my blog posts on the positive side. There are certainly ups and downs of teaching kindergarten and the good things I...

Popcorn, baked potatoes, warm bread...some things are just better with butter.  My days are filled with it, little five-year-olds buttering...

My cherubs this year are a very young bunch with most of them having summer birthdays. Their young-ness presents itself in a lot of differe...

I love new ideas to help with classroom management, so I thought I'd share one that works pretty well in my classroom. The kids in my...

A little boy joined my class today. He and his family have just arrived from the Dominican Republic. He speaks no English. I can't ev...

After four solid days of wind driven rain I was starting to have my doubts that this field trip I had been planning since August was actual...

I'm pretty proud to be able to call myself a teacher and even more so to be able to call myself a kindergarten teacher. Not everyo...