Kindergarten Teacher Guide - Kindergarten Survival
Description
Use this fun and colourful Kindergarten Teacher Guide to get organised and have a successful year with this handbook written especially for Kindergarten (Foundation / Prep) teachers. This resource will help you with tips, hints, strategies and ideas.
The resource is a collaboration with the fabulous Lucy Jane Loves Learning.
We have written this guide to help answer all the questions you have or didn’t even know you had about being a Kindy teacher! It includes a range of helpful forms and checklists, as well as loads of tips we have learned teaching kindy ourselves over the years!
How to use this resource:
This resource is designed to provide you with a one-stop-shop to help you with all your questions and queries as a Kindergarten teacher.
It includes a range of preparation and planning checklists, easy to understand information about the general running of an early years classroom and a place to store teaching inspiration and ideas. See the following page for printing guidelines.
This document comes in colour and B&W printing options.
What is included:
- Welcome to Kindergarten letter
- What to expect
- Advice from other educators
- To do list template
- Ideas brainstorm page
- List of our favourite websites
- Useful website template
Getting Organised
- Things to prepare in advance
- Worth the investment
Setting up your Classroom
- Classroom spaces list
- Classroom decoration checklist
- Classroom setup tips
- Classroom supply checklist
- Classroom planning page
Classroom Management
- Behaviour management
- Our favourite “Call and Response” list
- Routines checklist
- Kinder class job system
- Making Connections with students (NEW)
The First Day and Week
- What to do on the First Day
- Example first day plan
- What to do in the first week
Communicating with Parents
- Things to keep in mind
- Methods of communication
- Ideas for Parent helpers
- Parent helper letter (reading groups)
- Parent information session checklist
Teaching & Learning Ideas
- Reading group activities
- Our favourite Kinder read alouds
- Writing in Kinder
- Fast Finisher suggestions
- Kindergarten Homework guide
- Professional Development
- Assessment in Kindergarten
- LSO (Teacher Aide) support
- Other Misc tips
Printables (Read to Print activities)
- Includes 10 various literacy and numeracy print and go lessons
Inspiration and Notes
- Blank pages for note-taking
Distance / Remote Learning (NEW)
- Distance Learning for Kindergarten students
- Family Fun Table
- Setup considerations
- Literacy, Numeracy, digital and independent work suggestions
This package includes everything you need to get organised for the school year and loads of tips and printables to help you along the way.
You might also be interested in our other Teacher Resources.
Find more useful Kinder curriculum resources here.
❤️ What other Teachers are saying about this resource: ❤️
"This resources was very informational and extremely helpful at the beginning of the school year! It certainly helped everything run smoothly. " - Brittany
"This was a great resource to get some ideas flowing for my first year of teaching kindergarten. It helped calm some of the anxiety that I was feeling." - Lauren
"I love reading through this book. I am going into my second year of teaching Prep/Kindergarten and I still look on it for ideas and help. Would recommend if you are starting to teach this year level!!" - Georgia
"Has been such a great resource to refer to even with years of Kindergarten experience. Nice to have a document that has everything you need to remember and implement!" - Jen
"I combined this with their first year teacher resource pack and the both have been a life saver! Exactly what this new teacher needed. " - Michelle
We are passionate about helping teachers at Rainbow Sky Creations and Lucy Jane Loves Learning. We hope that this package helps you in your classroom this year!
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