Ready...Set.....Go!!!

Well I am hoping I do a better job of keeping this one up to date! I want this to be a place where I can share classroom ideas that either I have or have borrowed from another teacher. I love to teach and I am almost obsessed as I search for new, fun, and exciting new ways to teach my students. My Panda Bear Kindergarten Classroom is using the Four Blocks Literacy Program (Hall and Cunningham) and I think it happens to be the most fun to teach ever!! I will be adding new ideas for lessons as well as expansions and ideas that I and others have using their approach such as Trash Talk (first idea). I truly believe that Kindergarten students can do so much more than most people give them credit for. I have heard people say that kindergarten students can't read...My class and the classes of my teammates have proved them wrong! We have students that are reading well into first grade level! I have heard that kindergarten students are too young to learn addition and subtraction...HAHAHA so funny because our student not only can add and subtract one digit numbers they are doing word problems and place value!! Is this because we are phenomenal teachers??? Ok well yea we are but it is because we challenged our students to be the best they can be, that they can do anything they set their wonderful little minds to do! We tell them every single day that they are amazing, wonderful, beautiful, intelligent children, that we want..NO EXPECT them to work hard and produce their best work. I hope you enjoy this blog as much as I will enjoy writing it! I am so excited to get these ideas out there! So....Here we go!!!!