| You Need To Incorporate Play Into Your Lessons | | | | sandpaper letters and then get the kids to trace the |
| Kindergarten kids love to play so give them | | | | word while slowly saying it. Hopefully this way it will |
| something to play with. One thing you must realize is: | | | | sink in but not always. |
| in kindergarten aged kids nearly everything you teach | | | | The key to success is repeat, repeat and repeat |
| then will go in one ear and out the other but if you | | | | again. When teaching reading you will find some |
| keep repeating it, it might just sink in. | | | | kindergarten kids pick up the words very fast and |
| If you are thinking you are wasting your time don't | | | | remember them while most will not. To test the kids |
| worry the kids love learning even though it seems | | | | just write the word on the blackboard and see how |
| they don't learn very much. For kindergarten kids I | | | | many can read it. |
| use flash cards with pictures and words and the kids | | | | Usually not to many, but don't worry as long as the |
| forget them as fast as I show them. But if I keep | | | | kindergarten kids are having fun while you are |
| repeating them over time some kids will remember | | | | teaching reading the they will love the class. If you |
| them. | | | | are using the Montessori way with the mixed age |
| I like the Montessori approach for kindergarten with | | | | class then the older kids can teach the younger ones |
| sandpaper letters and mixed age classrooms. With | | | | and some kids love teaching. |
| the sandpaper letters, I make up the word using the | | | | |