Almost a year already!?!

I started this blog last June (2013) as my classes in graduate school were winding down...or so I thought.  The summer brought 3 intense compacted courses followed by 2 courses in the fall while working full time.  I had a plan, a schedule, and a list of ideas for my blog.  We see how well that worked out!  Well, I have graduated and have no more coursework.  In the last two weeks I've made two new products for my TPT store and the enthusiasm is mounting. Since I have no classes this summer, I hope to devote a lot of my time developing products.  I  had the pleasure of working with kindergardners in math remediation this school year.  After my first experience teaching kindergarten in summer school 26 years ago, I said I never wanted to teach a kindergarden class.  I may rethink that decision, although, granted, this year I worked only with individual students and small groups.  So maybe not.  Those little kinders inspired me to develop some materials for practicing and assessing numeral reading and subitizing fluency.Although neither of those is specified in the Common Core as kindergarten math standards, they are both necessary for success of other standards in kindergarden math.   I tried out two of the activities with them and they loved them!  Testing products on real live kids in real learning situations is a great litmus test for a product.  My first major goal is to develop activities for every kindergarden math standard in the CCSS-M.  Visit my TPT store to preview "Ladybug Spots for Kindergarden" and "Number Recognition Pack 1-5".  See you sooner than eleven months this time.