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Add these bat calendar numbers to your collection of classroom calendar numbers today. They’re perfect for your next kindergarten, pre-k, or preschool bat theme. While the bat number cards are great for your linear or traditional calendar, you can use them for so much more. Add them to your math lessons or place them in your math center. Either way, your students can practice a variety of early math skills with this simple bat printable. I think they’d also be a nice addition to your Halloween activities for preschoolers and kindergartners. Or as part of your next hibernation unit. As...

Friends, What is often confused as an issue of kids not having sufficient vocabulary is really a literacy issue that tracks back to them not having books that they own in their homes, reading aloud practices, getting read to earlier, having access to libraries and reading opportunities, as well as characters in fiction or in real life who reflect them.I love how country singer, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library initiative that she founded in 1995 addresses these exact disparities of children having access to books. Specifically, it is a "book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age...

Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom closed the books on the Legislature’s 2022 session by signing hundreds of bills. Taken as a whole, the state budget passed in June and the flood of measures passed in August are a significant step to the left. They move California closer to the Western European model of providing an extensive array of social, educational and medical benefits, one that progressive activists want California to emulate and lead the nation. While Newsom has been unable to create the single-payer health care system he pledged during his 2018 campaign for governor, the budget came very close...

Today's scrapbook layout is a two-page layout that I created based on this Pinterest pin from my Scrapbook/Cards Pinterest board. I liked the general design of the photos because I had a lot of photos from my daughter's Kindergarten graduation party to scrapbook! In today's process video, I go into more detail about how I created this layout based on the original design.I used a combination of

Creative Storm 2022 is the title of the latest Next Vista for Learning video contest. Like previous Next Vista contests, this one is open to students and teachers. There is a category for student-produced videos, a category for teacher-produced videos, and a category for videos created through the collaborative efforts of teachers and students. Regardless of the category, all videos must teach a lesson in 90 seconds or less. The lesson can be about almost any concept a person would learn about in elementary, middle, or high school.Entries into Next Vista's Creative Storm video contest must be received by December 16th. There is a small...