Tanzania, East Africa, but has lots of experience teaching Kindergarten, First Grade, and Fourth
Grade. She shares about her life in Africa, teacher tips, and all of
the things she loves, like her family, coffee, books, and handlettering. You can find her as The Gypsy Teacher on her blog, Instagram, and Facebook!
a guest on Sweet for Kindergarten today! I love all of Kristina’s teaching
ideas and tips and I hope you can use some of my ideas in your classroom! I
love teaching literacy; it thrills me to see our students grow throughout the
year and become readers and writers! Today I hope to inspire you with some
ideas on getting your students writing!
Kindergarten, I love introducing writing through labeling. I do this at about
this point in the year – once we have mastered most of the letter sounds, and
know which letters make which sounds. To kick off my labeling unit, I have my
students label the TEACHER! Here’s how it works:
think it is HILARIOUS! It is a simple, yet engaging way to introduce labeling
to your class. By the end of the activity, you’ll have sticky notes all over,
and the students will have had a hands-on experience labeling!
lesson, we will make a labeling anchor chart together. This transitions them
into using labels on paper, and we work on writing down the sounds we hear in
words. I don’t have a picture of this, but I got the idea from My
Crazy Life in Kinder. I think it’s really important that our students
practice the labeling with us, so that we can talk about bow we try our best
with writing the words. If you don’t know how to spell a word, you try your
best to stretch the word out and write the sounds you hear!
on labeling a picture together, I will use one of my Label and Color resources
for the students to try this independently! I have made these to use all year
long in my classroom and have found them to be so useful in my writing centers,
and as whole-group and small-group writing activities!
For each of the themes/pictures, I have three
differentiated printables – Label the Beginning Sound, Trace the Label, and Write
the Label. This way, each of your students can practice at their levels. Once
the students have labeled all of the parts, they get to color the picture!
(Their favorite part!) If you’re interested in using these in your classroom,
you can click HERE
to find them in my TpT store! I
have a bundle of twelve for the whole year, or you can purchase them
individually! It is so exciting to see the students’ progress from the
beginning to the end of the year with these Label and Color activities!
have gotten used to labeling pictures that I give them, we work on writing our
own stories by drawing a picture and labeling the important parts. It is so
exciting to guide our learners to become detailed writers, and this process
helps them do that!
YOU teach your students to write! Leave a comment below with your best tips!
And a BIG thanks to Kristina for having me on the blog today! I have loved
sharing with you!