Nevada Governor Sisolak closed schools for the rest of the school year at a live press conference Tuesday evening (April 21). Although I'd been saying it out loud for weeks, sort of trying it on for size, it felt so heavy and dire to hear him say it. For it to become official. And I …
Category: Kindergarten
Adventures in Distance Kindergarten Day 8
Yesterday was Day 8 and I feel like I'm in a little bit of a rhythm. I took Sunday completely off from school work and only panicked a little. Mostly, I loved trying to sleep in, making waffles, going for a run in a new spot while Zack mountain biked on a dirt single track …
Elephant and Piggie
Gerald and Piggie made special appearances on zoom this morning!
Adventures in Distance Kindergarten Day 5
I'm trying to spice up our Morning Meeting on zoom to make them more interactive, fun and potentially educational.Look at their cute little faces! We're so lucky that Ms. Shari and Mrs. A joined us. 😊 Today, they brought their whiteboard, markers and eraser from their Bags of Home Learning and we played a guessing …
Seesaw
I've used Seesaw with my kindergarteners for several years. I probably learned about it during an #ecechat (early childhood educators Twitter chat) with Heidi Veal @vealheidi, Nancy Alvarez @techwnancy and Jessica Cabeen @jessicacabeen in 2015 or 2016. And thank goodness. While my school is using Zoom and Google classroom as our platforms in common, the …
Adventures in Distance Kindergarten
It's hard to believe that just a couple weeks ago, we celebrated Super Hero Day together. At school. In quite close proximity to each other. And then on Tuesday and Wednesday, I was scrambling around school - mostly between the kindergarten room and the copier - making word family books and pbl books and math …
Global Goals for Lake Tahoe School
I am so lucky to be connected with Jennifer Williams through our mutual pal, Sean Gaillard. Because of my America Achieves fellow fellow, Sharon Davison, and Jen, I learned about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the TeachSDGs movement and the Global Goals Project. After a little marinating time, this Fall was the perfect time to …
Field Trip to the Discovery Museum
We got to go on a field trip in March and it was fantastic. We had our lab first and this year we studied and played with tools. So much fun! Then we had museum discovery fun time. Or Discovery Museum fun time. Or both! Thanks, Nevada Discovery Museum!
March Madness 2019
Natalie Krayenvenger taught me a way to celebrate the books we've read throughout the year that theoretically coincides with the more famous March Madness in NCAA Women's and Men's Basketball. And the Sweet Sixteen is chosen! I displayed it in the lunch room like last year but this year's class voted to open up voting …