Friday, October 24, 2014

Live Love Serve Teach

http://liveloveserveteach.blogspot.com/2014/10/tricks-and-treats-for-teachers-blog-hop.html
This blog is written by  Jova Crawford and she addresses the topic of kids that can't sit still or focus but have not been diagnosed.  She gives suggestions as well as some recess tips that will help these children get ready to learn.  Interesting!

Kreative in Kinder

http://kreativeinkinder.blogspot.com/
This blog is written by Crystal, a teacher from Texas.  She offers many creative ideas but I really liked her ideas for the first days of school.  She has great organization ideas and her classroom is well organized and Kindergarten friendly.

Bonnie Kathryn Kinders and Beyond

http://www.bonniekathryn.blogspot.com/
Bonnie Kathryn, Kinders and Beyond is a great blog introducing ideas for an interactive classroom.  This blog has posted examples of music by Pete Harry and a website to purchase songs that encourage learning that gets kids moving. She also introduces her interactive alphabet books showing different activities for each letter. This is an interesting blog that can initiate new ideas for the classroom.

Vanessa Levin Pre-K Pages

http://www.pre-kpages.com/blog/
Vanessa Levin offers a wide variety of information on her website.  She shares ideas on classroom management, themes, centers, math, literacy, assessment, technology, teaching tips and printable s.  Currently on her blog you will find 7 tips for reading aloud to kids , this is quite interesting.  She also includes a clever way to display your books that I think would work great in the classroom.  Also check out her links to Spider and Halloween activities for math and healthy classroom parties.