Exploring the Future of Education

Check out our library of fun coloring worksheets for you to use in your classroom! See these and more in the Kami Library. We know that kids really enjoy coloring activities, but it’s important to remember why coloring activities can offer many benefits for kindergartners’ development. Coloring helps develop: Coloring Activities Gather students together and show them…

What are Venn Diagrams? A simple Venn diagram (invented by John Venn) is an infographic that has three overlapping circles. Each circle contains unique data points and common shared data in the center. Why use them in your classroom? Venn diagrams can be a useful tool for kids to show and compare sets of data or ideas on…

Introducing math concepts to kindergarten students can be tricky, especially if it’s not your strongest subject! So, because we’ve got your back, we’ve stocked the Kami Library with plenty of templates to help you with your math activities. Some students will have learned to recognize numbers already in pre-k or during homeschool, but others will…

Kindergarten students may be young, but even in their first year of school, it’s important that they learn to follow some basic rules to help with classroom management and the smooth running of the school day. Setting clear and simple rules early on will help create a classroom environment that’s conducive to learning and development.…

The kindergarten class is where children develop key skills that take them from pre–k to elementary school and beyond. Lesson plans for this grade should include a range of activities that cover all the core elements of the curriculum. Because kindergarten students are still quite young (4 to 6-year-olds), it’s a good idea to have…

There’s a lot to pack into kindergarten classes: literacy, numeracy, science, language, art, and social studies, not to mention helping students develop their social and emotional skills. But don’t panic, we’ve got you covered! The Kami Library has a wide range of free kindergarten worksheets for your lesson plans. Our worksheets are printable, or you…

Did you know that the idea of kindergarten in the United States was first developed in the 1900s when the National Kindergarten Association was set up in New York to promote the idea of a public school kindergarten system? Today, most states across America require school districts to offer either full-day kindergarten or a half-day…

“Tech” in the classroom If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a teacher. But, before you were a teacher, in times of yore, you were also probably a student. It’s plain to see that classrooms have changed quite a bit since “the old days”. Blackboards and chalk are gone, overhead projectors sit in storage, and…

Personalized instruction, sometimes called Personalized learning, is a powerful new approach to education. It emphasizes students’ autonomy in their own education. It lets them choose what they learn, and at what pace. It’s a well-documented approach to education that is picking up momentum around the world. This approach is complemented by a similar approach called…

Teaching has always been a balance between implementing new technology and respecting tried and tested traditional education tools. In a world where it seems a new device is invented every eight hours, this balance is becoming even more difficult to navigate. This is also a component in the Universal Design for Learning that we discuss…

Mother’s Day is practically here. With so many national holidays happening all the time, it can be hard to keep track of them all! As any parent will tell you, being somebody’s mom is a full-time unpaid job with no holiday pay or sick leave available: Being a mother to several people is even more…

Discover our collection of Cornell Notes templates in the Kami Library. Have you ever looked over your students' notes and wondered how they’ll ever make sense of them? Perhaps while you are teaching, you notice students furiously scribbling away trying to get down every word you say? If you've been looking for a way to introduce your…