Kindergarten poems of the week

Every year, at the beginning of Kindergarten we begin learning the color words. If you are like me you own the color word CDs and sing them over and over until you can't stop. Then you sing them at home, in the shower, in your head all the time! The good news is: They work! Kids learn how to spell their color words very easily when they learn it in song. (Funny, that actually works for almost anything.) I was growing tired of my old color word poem charts in my classroom and decided to make…

Human body poem!

This is a primary blog with ideas for teaching grades kindergarten, first, second and third grade.

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I've got a little back to school freebie that I like to use in the first few weeks of school. It's a back to school poem and cloze activity. I put the poem under the document camera and we read it every day for a week. We discuss the poem - do a little "close reading", talk about why it says "goodbye old pool", find rhyming words, etc... {click to download} For one of their literacy/word work centers that week I put out copies of the cloze activity that goes with the poem. These are printed…