![]() ![]() What if you could kick teacher burnout to the curb and feel rejuvenated and ready to take on the next school year with joy and ease? Educate and Rejuvenate is the LIVE virtual conference for Pre-K through 6th-grade teachers and homeschool parents to work smarter (not harder!) and live their best lives. □I'm so happy to have you stick around here as I'll be in my "mom of 3 era" very soon! ❤️Kristina. I'll still share some new resources or blog posts in my stories, but you can also follow for new posts or join my email list for weekly Kindergarten teaching content. □If you're still reading this, well thanks for being here! □□ Moving forward I'll be sharing my daily life, kid activities, mom hacks, early childhood development, Amazon and target deals, and just relatable mom content. I'm still creating new resources (and trying them out with Caroline now ☺️) blogging, staying current with the education world for Sweet for Kindergarten. My dream was always to be a SAHM while my kids were young and this was my way to make it happen! □Fast forward a few more years, another cross country move (CA ➡️ VA), lots of naptime hustling, having my son- Nolan in 2021, and another pregnancy later, I was able to grow Sweet for Kindergarten more than I could've imagined! (Although it's still hard to explain to others what I actually do) □I've been out of the classroom for 5 years now and don't plan on going back until my kids are all in school, so keeping a "teaching account" on Instagram was hard and honestly overwhelming for me. I decided to take a year off and work on blogging/TPT to help support my family. I honestly just wanted to make a few extra bucks selling resources to fund my weekly Friday Starbucks trip! ☕️ □I taught 6 years, 5 in TK/K before having my first child, Caroline in 2018. □I started Sweet for Kindergarten as a creative outlet to share teaching ideas. It was a teaching account where I shared all things Kindergarten and my Teachers Pay Teachers resources in my store. ![]() Hey everyone, I'm Kristina! It's been a long time since I've done any kind of intro post and my IG account has changed a lot since I first started so here's a little life update□□ □I started this Instagram account back in 2015 □ after I had just moved across the country (FL ➡️CA) with my now husband. Personally, I like the spiral-bound notebooks because they are easy to fold back and flip the pages, but the black and white composition books work too! I think I got 50 for about $5 at Target!Īnother option is to put it on the student supply list if you are able to. To get the most bang for your buck, buy the notebooks when they are on sale during the back-to-school season. Interactive notebooks in Kindergarten can seem daunting at first, so I'm going to share some tips and tricks I learned along the way! This will help you be successful with implementing interactive notebooks in your Kindergarten classroom. By the end of the year, you will be surprised at how far they've come! Tips on using interactive notebooks in Kindergarten Doing these notebooks allows your students to have lots of practice with cutting.Īt first, the notebooks may look like a hot mess, but that's okay because they are practicing these skills and learning along the way. I have so many students that come into K, not knowing how to hold scissors or glue without drowning their paper in glue. There are so many benefits to using interactive notebooks in your classroom! All the cutting and gluing helps your students develop their fine motor skills. At the end of the year, my students were able to take it home and it had everything they learned for the year in one place. There are so many options on Teachers Pay Teachers, and for every grade level/subject! We did a page in our Phonics notebook every Friday to review our phonics skill of the week. ![]() Interactive notebooks are an amazing tool for your students because you can pack an entire year's worth of skills into one handy notebook! My students proudly displayed theirs for Open House, and the parents were impressed to see how far their student came in just a few months. ![]()
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