Teaching ABCs & 123s

While there’s consensus at an academic level kindergarten teachers and those who work with young children can feel pressure from parents and others to ‘teach’ reading and writing. Some feel that rote counting and ABCs activites are essential for young children.

Here’s a fantastic blog post by an early years teacher in America. I just need to play with them.

(note, for the Aussies reading: when he refers to Kindergarten, that’s our Prep, reception or first year of school)

Primary Teacher Blogs

I've found a lot of fantastic blogs about early learning activities recently. (See 'Children's stuff blogs' in sidebar). But this semester I'm doing teaching rounds in a Yr 1/2 classroom. So I've been looking for some Australian blogs written by teachers in early primary. I haven't found many, but here's a couple.


Nina's Arena

Excuse me, Mrs C

Some class blogs:

A Prep class in Sydney: Clever Cookies

A great yr 2 team teaching classroom blog: (best class blog I've found)
        Grade 1/2 at the same school
        A grade 2
        And another grade 2

A grade 3 class in WA

Another Grade 3

Here's a 5/6 classroom: Allstars

And another 5/6: Adventures with Miss B

A grade 5: Mr Austin's blog

Another grade 5: The Skinny

Here's a blog about a school's gardens & sustainability work

In terms of resources there are:

The rather hideously coloured K-3 Teacher Resources

 Know any other blogs written by teachers, classes or have lots of lesson plan ideas??