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When it comes to preK and kindergarten, learning the alphabet letters and their sounds is going to be a big part of their day. There are so many ways to teach kids the alphabet but as their teacher, you will likely have a curriculum book that you follow, where you get a certain number of days to go over a letter before moving on to the next letter. The problem with this is that kids need repetition. Spending a couple days on a letter and moving on to the next is not going to

One major milestone for any kid in school is when they can sound out and recognize cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. These include words such as "cat," "fan," "tin," "met," "dot," and "fun." This is such an importance milestone because it means they are on their way to reading and writing independently. Sounding out and recognizing these words should be continuously and regularly reviewed in a variety of ways until students are quickly able to recognize them by sight wit

The school day is over. But not quite yet. You have to cap off the day dealing with a staggered school bus schedule. Depending on how this goes, it might not make much of a difference in your day. Or it could. Here's how a staggered bus schedule works. A few of your students (often a few of the best behaved, oh the irony) leave right away. And then minutes later more are called and then more. And then finally about 20 minutes later the last batch. And let's face it, there's

Picture this: A fairly well-behaved student with a parent who is present, curious about their child's education, and supportive of you as his teacher / tutor. A teacher's/tutor's dream, right? That is until you hear the words, I want him to be challenged. So you give him work one grade level above, two grade levels above, three grade levels above. It doesn't matter what you give him. He aces the reading comprehension. Solves the math problems with no errors. And writes quickl