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I love following kindergarten blogs, this is one of my favorites.

Love her short posts about her kindergarten class accomplishments. Also would be "work on writing," for Daily 5

Pinterest divided by weekly Themes & Centers for a SCPS Kindergarten classroom.

This was actually introduced to me recently by my daughter's preschool teacher. Sure I had seen the commercials- but I had no idea it is FREE for teachers! I shared it with my Kindergarten team and we are all in love. So many lessons can be used on the smartboard, and you can create individual learning paths for each child.

As blended learning's popularity continues to grow in high schools and middle schools, KIPP Empower Academy (KEA) in South Los Angeles has taken the model a step further by introducing it to kindergarten students. 

See below for our collection of Free Stuff for Teachers...... I found a cool project for Father's Day that I will use in my Kindergarten class.

I taught 6 and 8th grade last year and opened the year in Kindergarten. This site truly helped me focus on organizing an elementary classroom.

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).

This is a great site for children ages 2-8. It teaches pre-reading as well as reading skills up to 2nd grade. Includes games, animated stories, songs, and writing activities. I use it daily!

Starfall is a free website that teaches children how to read through phonics. It has practice games on phonemic awaresness. The program is great for grades K-2, second language learners and special education.

Sometimes we may think that our young students are too young for technology, but given the world that we live in it is still important to integrate it into our classes. Here are some tips for integrating technology in PK-Kindergarten (and probably other primary grades as well).

I have used this website in Kindergarten and am excited to see that there are plenty of resources I can use for second grade. The NCTE is composed off dedicated teachers who share their resources, strategies, and best practices with others. You can enjoy the benefits of being a NCTE member by enrolling in the membership. Many of the resources are free and can be used in the classroom. There are lesson plans and student interactives to use for any subject on a computer or smart board. The great thing about this website is that parents and children can access it at home for after school resources. There is community involvement and professional developments that one can attend.

A free website to teach children to read. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Contains exciting interactive books and phonics games.

This was a great center to have when I taught primary. =)

For over a decade, TeAchnology has been providing free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. We feature 46,000+ lesson plans, 9,600 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources.

Great site for lesson plans and assessment rubrics. Plenty of worksheets and other resources.

This site gives an example of a discipline specific search engine for technology in education

A to Z Teacher Stuff has so many resources! Just found lessons for the 100th day of school. We are celebrating that in Kindergarten in about a week.

Great info on daily 5

This website provides a great deal of valuable information for both educators and students pertaining to NASA and Space in general. Lesson plans for K-12, free supplemental teaching materials, educational TV schedules and professional development workshop information is all available for educators on this site. For students, this website has interactive games, videos and printable activities for grades kindergarten through 12th grade. I have used materials and ideas from this cite many times, and find it very useful and easy to incorporate into any lesson.

Free STEM curriculum for educators

Hatch Early Learning experts have developed two unique software packages that meet the needs of educators teaching young preschoolers, kindergarteners, English Language Learners, 1st graders and children with special abilities. Our solution options include TeachSmart, for cognitive ages 3 - 5, and CoreFocus, for cognitive ages 3 - 8.

Little Giraffes is now part of the A to Z Teacher Stuff family of sites. After Mrs. Flanagan's announcement that the site would be closing, A to Z Teacher Stuff made arrangements to take over maintenance and ownership of the site.

ABC book ideas for students from kindergarten to college. The ideas are for various subject areas.

Common Core Navigator for English Language Arts (ELA), Kindergarten Great way to grasp a better understanding of the Common Core standards.This site also provide a variety of resources and lessons for teachers.

CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards.

FREE resource that contains FL standards' information and course descriptions. Maintained by the Florida State University.

FL Standards for reference