Welcome to The Kindergarten Connection! Our mission is to spark joy in early childhood educators and to help both teachers (like you!) and students reach their highest potential.
These Pre-K and Kindergarten Boom Cards™ are great for incorporating technology into your classroom in a meaningful way! ✍New to Boom? Click PREVIEW to check out a playable preview! This is a BUNDLE which means that it includes all of our available Boom Cards™! ❤️ (Find Google and Seesaw ready games HERE) Let me help you SAVE TIME with these ready-to-go Pre-K and Kindergarten Boom Cards™ that your students are sure to love! List of games included:⭐Rocket Rhymes ⭐Cat’s Hat CVC Words ⭐
These word family readers with decodable text are aligned with the best practices of the Science of Reading and are perfect for Kindergarten students and early readers. Each reader focuses on a specific word family and uses minimal high frequency words in addition to the decodable text. They are great for small groups, classroom books, at home practice, and more to build up your students’ confidence and fluency with decoding words. Each book is easy to print (two sets on a page, simply prin
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
Click VIEW PREVIEW to see these fluency passages for early readers! They contain decodable text with a CVC or CVCe word family focus along with high frequency words for students to practice fluency and comprehension. ⭐️ Inside you will find a total of 85 pages:23 CVC word family fluency passages with room for illustrations 18 CVCe word family fluency passages with room for illustrations 23 pages of CVC word family fluency phrases21 pages of CVCe word family fluency phrasesThere are also “digital
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
'Roll and Color' Dice Math Games for the ENTIRE YEAR with a bonus 'Roll and Trace' version of each game! Work on math skills and on number writing too! ⭐ That's 66 'Roll and Color' games AND 66 'Roll and Trace' games!⭐ ⭐ INSIDE THIS PACK YOU WILL FIND:⭐ 22 Basic Roll and Color/Trace Games– Roll one die, count the dots and color or trace the matching number. Or roll a numbered die and find the matching number.22 Addition Roll and Color/Trace Games – Roll two dice, add them together and color or
These alphabet center activities are perfect for teaching letter identification to Pre-K, Transitional Kindergarten, and Kindergarten students. If you are looking for Science of Reading aligned, hands-on, and engaging alphabet activities for your classroom - these are for you! Designed with Pre-K, TK, and Kindergarten in mind, these centers will give you a variety of activities and options for your students. ***This pack focuses on letter NAMES and letter identification. If you are looking for c
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
Circle time chants are highly engaging for whole group or small group activities in your Pre-K or Kindergarten class! Each chant in this pack ( currently over 50 are included!) contains a fun, catchy rhyme that fits onto a single page and game pieces to go along with it. Some even include optional recording sheets, and all have blackline copies, too. Check out the preview to see the chants currently included! Please note: In keeping with Science of Reading best practices, clipart for the letter
PreK - K
Basic Operations, English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
These CVC word family phonics poems are fluency and poetry in one! They contain decodable text along with high frequency words for students to practice fluency and rhyming and are aligned with the best practices of the Science of Reading. This pack contains 23 printable Phonics Poems to help your early readers become successful with CVC word families. The poems are 8 lines each, with high frequency words, CVC words, and rhymes. They contain pictures and are perfect for poetry notebooks, folders
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Poetry
Click VIEW PREVIEW to see the collection of printable early readers for Pre-K and Kindergarten at a big discount! This set of readers contains over 100 books that are perfect for early learners. The books offer students exposure to a variety of texts to practice early reading, including decodable text, predictable text, new vocabulary, and fluency practice. Each book is 5-7 pages in length and focuses on a specific letter, word family, color, number word, theme, or nursery rhyme. ⭐This is an
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
These phonics poems are fluency and poetry in one! The alphabet poems use repeating patterns and pictures to help early readers become successful with letters and beginning sounds. The CVC and CVCe word family poems contain decodable text along with high frequency words for students to practice fluency and rhyming and are aligned with the best practices of the Science of Reading. This bundle pack contains 70 poems in total and is fantastic for a year of phonics poems in Kindergarten, or for a
K - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Poetry, Science of Reading
These engaging sight word and high frequency word games and centers are EDITABLE - use with any word list! Simply type ANY 18 words into the custom list creator. It AUTOMATICALLY fills EVERY word activity with your CHOSEN WORDS in SECONDS! The possibilities are endless - create endless sets and combinations of sight word or high frequency word games! This pack is filled with engaging sight word or high frequency word centers for Pre-K, Transitional Kindergarten, and Kindergarten students (t
These Digital Games for Pre-K and Kindergarten work with Google Classroom™ and Seesaw.™ ( Even if you don't use Google Classroom™, you can play in Google Slides.™)✍Full instructions are included for you on how to add these games to the platform of your choice. This is a BUNDLE which means that it includes all of our available games for Google Classroom™ or Seesaw™! ❤️ (Find Boom Cards™ HERE) Want to try a free game and see how easy it is? Try this tally mark counting game! Let me he
This "hide and seek" pocket chart games bundle provides high engagement learning for your Pre-K and Kindergarten students by adding in SONGS! ♫♫♫Make Circle Time or Morning Meeting an interactive learning experience with this bundle. ♫ Each pack contains 3 songs sung to familiar tunes and a hide and seek game to match! The skills in the sets will change/develop throughout the year, with some skills repeating as needed. How to Play: Place the cards in a pocket chart and hide the smaller car
These fluency passages for early readers contain decodable text with a CVC word family focus along with high frequency words for students to practice fluency and comprehension. There are 23 word family story passages for students to read and illustrate and 23 fluency phrase pages for students to practice reading phrases in isolation. These pages also incorporate punctuation such as question marks or exclamation marks so that students practice fluency with different punctuation. ⭐️ The following
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
These subitizing activities are perfect for building number sense and mathematical fluency in Pre-K, Transitional Kindergarten, and Kindergarten students. Each subitizing activity allows students to recognize how many objects are in a set without counting, and this fun pack will help them practice counting on, combining sets, and recognizing number patterns to 20. If you are looking for hands-on and engaging subitizing activities for your classroom - these are for you! Designed with Pre-K, TK,
These short a CVC word family readers with decodable text are aligned with the best practices of the Science of Reading and are perfect for Kindergarten students and early readers. Each reader focuses on a specific word family and uses minimal high frequency words in addition to the decodable text. They are great for small groups, classroom books, at home practice, and more to build up your students’ confidence and fluency with decoding words. Each book is easy to print (two sets on a page,
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
The Cutting Jar is an amazing classroom community builder, management activity for transitions, and SIMPLE way to build your students' fine motor and scissor skills without taking much time in your day! The Cutting Jar is designed for Preschool - Kindergarten classrooms to be used for three specific purposes:A skill-building exercise tool,A classroom management tool, andA super simple assessment toolWe used it every morning in both my TK and Kindergarten classrooms, and countless other teachers
This is a MONEY SAVING BUNDLE for a year long (9 sets) pack of Kindergarten Math and Literacy Clip Cards. This bundle has 9 sets of Math and Literacy Clothespin Clip Cards designed to progress through the kindergarten school year. Need more options for differentiation? We have Pre-K and 1st Grade Sets too! Pre-K Bundle1st Grade BundleTo see a sample of the sizing and style of the cards, you can download a FREE Pumpkin Addition Set!Own a set already and want to upgrade to the bundle? Email me
Click VIEW PREVIEW to see all 15 sets of skill-based print and play centers for Pre-K, Transitional Kindergarten, and Kindergarten students! If you are looking for fun, hands-on Pre-K, Transitional Kindergarten, and Kindergarten center activities for ANY time of year, this bundle is for you! In this bundle you'll find:Alphabet Centers Color Centers Beginning Sound Centers Number Centers Counting Centers Shape Centers Subitizing Centers Pattern Centers Addition Centers EDITABLE Sight Word Cente
Click VIEW PREVIEW to see this bundle of themed Pre-K, Transitional Kindergarten, or Kindergarten centers that contains over 420 print and play math and literacy activities! This is a YEAR LONG BUNDLE for 22 themed sets of Pre-K, TK, and Kindergarten Math and Literacy Activities and Centers. Buy the bundle and SAVE BIG! These centers focus around each given theme and incorporate the following skills throughout the packs (not necessarily all in each pack, but building throughout): Letters and
Are you wanting to build up skills with your Kindergarten students on following directions? This pack focuses specifically following oral directions! This pack of listening activities for step by step directions is just what you need! With vocabulary like biggest, smallest, larger, smaller, next to, etc. these following directions activities also work on important Pre-K and Kindergarten skills. Inside are 10 follow along fun sheets and 10 direction sheets:2 summer2 back to school2 fall 2 winte
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Speaking & Listening
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Experience
Welcome to The Kindergarten Connection! Our mission is to spark joy in early childhood educators and to help both teachers (like you!) and students reach their highest potential.
Teaching style
I am passionate about playful learning, independence, and developmentally appropriate education. Play matters!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Speaker at Western Governors University graduation ceremony in Utah in 2009.
My own education history
BA in Elementary Education, a M.S in Special Education, and a M.S in Curriculum Design
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