Miss Kayla

Future Educator | Concurrent Psychology BEd | ECE

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"Scaffolding is what educators do first to support student success."

#Sketchnote via @woodard_julie

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Felt Story Prop Boxes are a great tool for making read-aloud experiences interactive and engaging. Felt stories allow students to retell stories independently and in groups while increasing their fine motor development, imagination, vocabulary, self-expression and more!

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Beading pipe cleaners can benefit fine motor development and pre-writing skills. Using letter beads can build on this activity to support phonemic awareness, phonics and more. This resource outlines and explains the different usages and benefits.
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Kindergarten_Chaos: https://t.co/IqSb0p2ZPg TPT https://t.co/thReD0HlCZ

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Pattern blocks are for more than just mathematical manipulation; they benefit dexterity and fine motor development and are adaptable to many subjects. Abbie (Kindergarten_Chaos) created patterning block mats that promote phoneme mapping, blending, reading, writing, and CVC words.

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Check out Mrs. Bryant on TikTok; she shares creative and hands-on activities for teaching students phonics. Each activity promotes engagement through movement or fun games and targets various aspects of phonics, including phonemic awareness, segmentation, manipulation and more.

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Pathway 2 Success has many articles surrounding SEL is you are looking for further information. Pathway 2 Success: 25 Ways to Integrate Social Emotional Learning https://t.co/JQVj5UMO5r

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Social-emotional education is a priority in my teaching philosophy. I plan to integrate SEL opportunities into the curriculum/daily routine to ensure student well-being, healthy relationships and engagement.
This resource outlines many effective integrations for language arts!

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This resource shares effective ways to differentiate the Write the Room activity to ensure all learners can succeed: https://t.co/WICgAOFnWv

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Write the Room is a useful activity for familiarizing students with their classroom at the beginning of the year but can be used anytime. Write the Room activities support student engagement and collaboration, letter/word recognition, increasing vocabulary and writing skills.

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Bingo is a fun and educational activity for all learners; you could make a version or use this specific resource. There are variations focused on different subjects and levels. This bingo focuses on level-one sight words; it promotes increasing vocabulary and reading skills.

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This letter construction set is great for kindergarten. It supports fine motor skills, letter recognition/formation, and writing skills; the reference cards provide additional support. To further learning, children can build/spell words or name words starting with their letter!

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For more books go to the resource below:
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Black History Month highlights and celebrates the culture, stories, and achievements of a beautiful community that deserve greater representation in the education system, literature and more. Below I have included several spectacular children’s books to add to your classroom!

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Question of the Day is something I utilized with my Kindergarten students during placement; their name tags were accessible for reference if needed, but I would have them write their names instead. This daily activity supports reading skills, writing skills and name recognition.

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Me and My Big Emotions is an amazing read centred around social-emotional development. SEL is essential for students’ well-being, developing healthy relationships, and increasing engagement/academic achievement. This Read-aloud supports both foundational literacy skills and SEL!

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TPt Pink Shirt Day Activities Link: https://t.co/5o3VFuLCrb

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In honour of Pink Shirt Day, here are two amazing resources:
1. A free TPT writing and art resource for grades 3 to 6; can be adapted for all grades.
2. A list of books for children as well as educators and parents about anti-bullying.
Let's all do our part to make a change!