Daily 5 kindergarten

If you’ve read my blog before, you probably know that I use a Daily 5 structure to organize our reading time. I love the freedom, choice, and time spent reading/writing it offers my students. One of the most common questions/comments is “My students can’t handle choice. I’m doing Daily 5 just without the choice. My...

Take a look at how I set up my class and organize my stations for a successful start to Daily 5 in kindergarten.

I started The Daily 5 this year in kindergarten and I am soooo excited about it! This is what we have been doing each day. Thi...

It begins with a description of a Daily 5 classroom and makes me smile. The teacher is working with a single student or a group of students. Students know where classroom resources are and move comfortably and independently around the room. #daily5 #daily5kindergarten #daily5firstgrade #daily5secondgrade #daily5schedule #daily5organization

What does your Kindergarten day look like? If you teach full day, here is a look at what my Kindergarten daily schedule looked like.

Each Monday we collaborate with our building's new and Dual Language staff members for a professional development session based on what they highlight as their needs and/or desires for learning! This week we focused on Daily 5 ideas as all of our staff are currently working hard to get their stations and guided reading up and running! The teachers who attending the session came up with a variety of wonderful ideas and activities that could potentially be used throughout the year in these…

Organizing Daily 5 Literacy Stations in Kindergarten and ...a freebie for you. - Differentiated Kindergarten

First off, I am loving daily bookmarks. I know they kids should choose where and when they go to a station, but I like to have a little control. Each

Hi y'all. Currently I am in the process of reading the 2nd edition of Daily Five. I have found that implementing Daily Five framework to be very successful in both my kindergarten and first grade classrooms. Let me admit this, I don't do everything that the two sisters recommend. I make changes and adapt in order to make it fit for my classroom. For the past 3 years, I never gave students the opportunity to make their own choices about where to go for literacy. I, the teacher, would make the…

Are you considering using Daily 5? Here are some ideas for implementation in kindergarten and 1st grade. If you are looking for some extra motivation to get started with a rotation chart or basic set up this post will give you ideas to help!

Daily 5 for BIG KIDS

I get a lot of questions about how I implement Daily 5 in Kindergarten and when I start. DAY 1! Since I'm about a week in I thought this was a good time to share a little bit about how our days are going so far..... I can not tell you how wonderful it is to get your kiddos working independently. It is hard to get it going (I won't sugar coat it) but once you get it rolling you can do ANYTHING! This is the key to everything! First off we introduce Read to Self. I start with how to read a book…

This will be my first year implementing Daily 5 in my classroom. Last year as a Curriculum Coach and Resource Teacher, I was exposed to it...

Take a look at our kindergarten daily schedule and see what we do all day in our kindergarten classroom!

What is the best way to do literacy centers in kindergarten? Free flow literacy centers for kindergarten are something you need to try!

Take a look at the reality of what really happens on Day One of Daily 5 in this kindergarten classroom.

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Do you reinvent the wheel every single week when it comes to centers, word work, stations.....whatever you happen to call them? Yeah, me too! I know better, I swear I do but it just never fails. I am here today to tell you that there IS A BETTER WAY! Let me begin by saying I am a big fan of Daily 5. I run my room about as closely to the Daily 5 model as possible but this is one area I just never could give in on. The sisters suggest having out materials for students to build words, write…

Daily 5 anchor charts