Beginning of the year assessment

It's the beginning of the year, and you have a whole new class that is sitting in front of you. You don't know them besides the information you got on the student information card. You know the first few weeks are getting to know them. Both personally and academically. You also know the first few

This comprehensive skill assessment is a great way to quickly assess your student's ability level. It includes a recording sheet that should be printed for each

I just have a couple of minutes for a quick post; I have been working all day getting things ready for next week :) I needed a beginning o...

Assessment can be difficult for both teachers and students, depending on how it’s done. Here’s a super simple little trick for assessment that I call Hop Across the Pond. It can be used for a lot of different things, but I use it mostly for assessment of students’ sight word knowledge. I used to ask […]

Kindergarten readiness has never been so easy with these Kindergarten sight words, counting, games, and educational crafts for children. Some of the fun kindergarten readiness activities include sight word sundaes, counting flags, counting eggs, bingo, sudoku and handprint art. Your kindergartener is so excited! The Tip Junkie Creative Community has Kindergarten Crafts and Kindergarten activities with pictured tutorials and free patterns if you're looking for more simple crafts for kids with…

Tips for Primary Teachers.

Preschool assessments are a great way to record a child's progress throughout the school year. Last year, we had an cream party on the last day of preschool and I wanted to use an assessment that went along with our ice cream theme. Below is the assessment we used, you will also see a beginning of the year assessment with the same theme that has different wording. We had a lot of fun with this theme and will be using it about for this coming school year. Beginning of school year preschool…

It's August! The month when school resumes. The month when summer is over. If I've made you sad I have something to uplift your spi...

I wanted to stop by today and share some a few of my “go-to” activities during the first week of school to build our classroom community and set expectations for […]