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How fun!!!  Playposit is self paced, but still engaging.  Super easy to use and I used the free version!  https://www.playposit.com/listcode/985630/zh4f8f84/open/anonymous

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I was having trouble getting my small group students to feel comfortable enough to participate. So - in came roll call. Just a quick question to get them talking for fun without any pressure!

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Here's a quick screen cast too. This is with a smaller group.

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I've used classkick for writing, but I find it super time consuming to give feedback on everyone's writing/project. Any suggestions?

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I feel I never have enough time to get to this portion of the lesson, and using classkick to keep the writing it great, however I haven't found a great way for the kids to share their writing with each other to do successful Peer editing.

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Give advice to next years 4th graders :-) The kids LOVE doing this, and I love sharing it with my new kids at the beginning of the year.

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I have had success where students reflected on their writing and how much they think they can write. The students chose breakout rooms based on their abilities and it was really cool to see how the students self reflected.

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Some of the students that did a great job working on their not mastered lessons had the opportunity to join me on Zoom and have lunch with the teacher and their friends. It was a great way to get to know the kids in a less academic way and more of a fun, personal way.

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Zoom has been amazing to use with the students. You area able to see all of your students at 1 time not just 6. Example of our Yellow day picture.

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Once a week we have a writing class where go over a specific topic IE narrative, informative, etc. They are broken down into smaller parts for the students to understand. When we are done the students to go classkick to complete a specific portion of that topic.

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I feel that writing is very important for the students to be learning, but there is not enough time in our schedule to allow the students to complete a writing class everyday. Also, having the time to read their responses and give feedback.

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At the end of the year I email the parents a packet of sheets that they can do over the summer to not get the summer slide.
We also hold an assembly at the end of the year.

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Teaching math we don't do a whole lot of writing, but we do practice using math talk to give feedback to peers.

Students practice with constructive feedback using complete sentences.

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We don't do as much writing since it is math we focus more on the computation part of it.

I would like to find ways to incorporate it more.

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We do an end of year homeroom Fun Friday where we talk about our year (the good and challenges) as well as created a bucket list of things we want to do over summer.

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The last few months of school I started using a quizizz each unit. The students have the opportunity to pass the checkpoint a day early in math. This is not a writing strategy, but something I have found the students like and have success with.

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I have been using Class Kick and 🤬 Grid in classes to have students show their work step by step by use of adding weekly to Class Kick. This way I can give instant feedback and watch what students are working on. I have also used 🤬 Grid at the end of units for students to present their final writing piece. The kids really enjoy both ways of me assessing their writing.

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We use Classkick to work through the writing process. We take one step at a time & I have students share their screens with me while I give them guidance with their writing. 

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We use Classkick to work through the writing process. We take one step at a time & I have students share their screens with me while I give them guidance with their writing. 

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I would like to give my students choices with writing prompts but would like to hear ideas on how I can manage that effectively. 

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I would like to give my students choices with writing prompts but would like to hear ideas on how I can manage that effectively. 

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I do a student of the week where students share special pictures with the class. They really enjoy being the SOTW.

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I do a student of the week

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I signed my students up for a program called XtraMath. It is a free program & really helps students with their facts. It also has placement tests.

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I signed my students up for a program called XtraMath. It is a free program & really helps students with their facts. It also has placement tests.

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I have used Class Kick a lot to work through the writing process. I have been able to watch kids work through step by step and assess the final copy and give feedback all within the website.

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I also recently signed my students up for SpellingCity. Great program for sight words/spelling/reading & writing

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I also recently signed my students up for SpellingCity. Great program for sight words/spelling/reading & writing

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My biggest challenge is that I co-teach and Class Kick doesn't allow 2 teachers to live watch student work at the same time.

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We do a final writing piece on what kids plans are for the summer.

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https://screencast-o-matic.com
Great link to record lessons, video's for students to view!

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A big thing for me (not a challenge but a thought) is enabling students to share their writing with each other!! I have tried a few different platforms for them to share and only one or two have taken the bait! Any suggestions on how to motivate students to WANT to share their writing with each other??

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A big thing for me (not a challenge but a thought) is enabling students to share their writing with each other!! I have tried a few different platforms for them to share and only one or two have taken the bait! Any suggestions on how to motivate students to WANT to share their writing with each other??

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In brick & mortar, we'd have our weekly trip to the school library. We'll you can have that again with EPIC! the virtual library -https://www.getepic.com/educators

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I love showing different ways for kids to do the same thing and use Khan Academy, or other visual/audio resources. Also sometimes hearing someone else talk about a concept works well, AND  having another student teach their classmates about how or what they understand is priceless, plus they always look forward to "playing" the teacher. :-)

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I love showing different ways for kids to do the same thing and use Khan Academy, or other visual/audio resources. Also sometimes hearing someone else talk about a concept works well, AND  having another student teach their classmates about how or what they understand is priceless, plus they always look forward to "playing" the teacher. :-)

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I've also used https://www.prodigygame.com/ with my kids which is pretty engaging and fun for them to learn math...

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We have also been using Math Talk more and more, but don't do a lot of writing about our math.  I have used an everybody write, or a waterfall activity... or a check-in starter where kids can type or answer questions on the board or in the chat.

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We have also been using Math Talk more and more, but don't do a lot of writing about our math.  I have used an everybody write, or a waterfall activity... or a check-in starter where kids can type or answer questions on the board or in the chat.

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Having 2nd and 3rd graders, their literacy skills aren't always the best.  Voice communication seems still to work best, along with manipulatives on the whiteboard. I would love to hear/see what other 2nd/3rd grade math/science teachers are doing for this age group!

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Having 2nd and 3rd graders, their literacy skills aren't always the best.  Voice communication seems still to work best, along with manipulatives on the whiteboard. I would love to hear/see what other 2nd/3rd grade math/science teachers are doing for this age group!

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Not sure what I will be doing in the end of the year... maybe a memory wall, with their favorite concept or take-a-way from class. Still pondering this...

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Not sure what I will be doing in the end of the year... maybe a memory wall, with their favorite concept or take-a-way from class. Still pondering this...

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Flippity is really easy to use and you can create class spinners, matching games, flashcards, and even Bingo really easily. I used it for a Bingo game online for my students with their spelling words. What is nice is that all students could click the link, and have different Bingo cards. I am still looking forward to trying additional features.
http://flippity.net/

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I send each student a personalized end of the year poem!

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These are free certificates for grade levels, plus excellence in subject and character.

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EDITABLE Graduation and Excellence in Subject & Character Certificates FREEBIE

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It's Graduation Time! Get prepared to celebrate with these free graduation certificates! This pack includes the following graduation certificates in both EDITABLE and PDF versions!Certificates:Pre-K GraduateKindergarten Graduate1st Grade Graduate2nd Grade Graduate3rd Grade Graduate4th Grade Graduate...

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Teaching writing virtually with Kindergarten in general!

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Teaching writing virtually with Kindergarten in general!

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Time constraints, the set up of our class schedule/ and who and when we meet with. Do I spend the 30 minutes I have with the students trying to teach them to read or to write... Also, parents understanding that kid writing is OKAY!!!

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I send home the Kindergarten Summer Learning Mats from Tara West (see link below)

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Browse over 1,250 educational resources created by Tara West in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.

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I started sending "Sways" to families as a weekly newsletter. It will also show me how many views it gets, and how long people spend looking at it. I like being able to embed links, videos and documents right into it. Another plus is that it is free since we have the Microsoft Suite- no need to create another account with a different website or being limited to a certain number of creations. Below is an example of mine.

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I love using the books on Epic. There are so many different genres and these have been really helpful when looking for supplemental materials, or just a cool book to read for, "Fun Friday".

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I have been connecting our SEL to many of their daily writing prompts so that they can maximize the social skills learning (and make self-text connections) while feeling safe and encouraged to connect, learn, and grow.  

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I have been connecting our SEL to many of their daily writing prompts so that they can maximize the social skills learning (and make self-text connections) while feeling safe and encouraged to connect, learn, and grow.  

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Last week we worked on trying again after something doesn't go well, and also helping others to persevere. I modeled a "difficult testing moment" (in prep for their upcoming STAR tests) and then they "helped me through it!" :)

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This year I made daily writing part of every class.  They earned credit for completing their "handwriting" or "writing skills" course lessons simply by participating, and when those course contained daily lessons that moved more specifically into GUM learning, it was enforced in the class writing activity.  Additionally, this year I moved the "Writers Workshop" down from 2nd grade to K/1.  This involved modifying the workshop.  We did stay with the same project theme (which will change next year.)  If you open up the writing sample attachment, you can see a two writing samples for a student which highlights the growth.

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This continues to be an issue, as I am one teacher who often circulates between 20 break-out-rooms to provide writing support, many times to students who are below expected level or even from upper grades down in my class.  While MOST are there to support only--and truly do act as a paraprofessional of sorts--I still have a couple LCs who I know are doing the work FOR their student (and I spend a lot of time correcting that action) and a couple who should be assisting or at least present, but for whom use daily CC  as their "off time."

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I am hosting our last Fun Friday next week and it will be an EOY Show & Tell celebration.  Their math teacher (who has been out on maternity leave) is also planning to pop in, so we are playing a baby game and they sent me messages to include on the slide for her!  

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I am hosting our last Fun Friday next week and it will be an EOY Show & Tell celebration.  Their math teacher (who has been out on maternity leave) is also planning to pop in, so we are playing a baby game and they sent me messages to include on the slide for her!  

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Finally, I did an EOY wrap up in regards to our SEL to get feedback from students and LCs as to what seemed to work at home and what other areas they would appreciate being covered next year.  The survey just went out, but I will include several responses received so far.

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I use Kidwriting in the 21st Century to introduce writing to my Kinder kiddos. I teach them them that even if they cannot write letters or words, they can make symbols and are still WRITING! We start with simple lines, circles, squiggles, etc and gradually work our way up to forming letters and stretching our words out with the aid of an alphabet chart. Students phonetically spell their words and get down their thoughts and then LC's or teachers can re-write their sentence in adult writing at the bottom of the student's page.  

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I use Kidwriting in the 21st Century to introduce writing to my Kinder kiddos. I teach them them that even if they cannot write letters or words, they can make symbols and are still WRITING! We start with simple lines, circles, squiggles, etc and gradually work our way up to forming letters and stretching our words out with the aid of an alphabet chart. Students phonetically spell their words and get down their thoughts and then LC's or teachers can re-write their sentence in adult writing at the bottom of the student's page.  

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End of Year Review Activities in Kindergarten

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End of Year Review Activities in Kindergarten

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1 - Reading Intervention Binder for Beginning Readers No Prep ELA

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My biggest challenge has been getting LCs to let the KIDS do their own writing.. so many are doing it for them and that is not what writing instruction is about!

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My biggest challenge has been getting LCs to let the KIDS do their own writing.. so many are doing it for them and that is not what writing instruction is about!