Resources
These are some online resources that have been useful to me when planning and managing a classroom.
Google Classroom
This resource is great for teachers to keep in contact with the student's parents and keep a good relationship with one another. For me it was particularly useful to send parents the vocabulary words of the week for the students and let the parent know what we are working on during the day. With Google Classroom, we can also send homework, worksheets, school announcements/information, pictures of the students, and videos of the children.
Quizlet
Quizlet is a very useful platform where you can create cue cards for your students. It can help them learn vocabulary or concepts. You can add sound and images to the cue cards, which is not something you could necessarily do with paper. You can as well create online quizzes and exercises for the students using the cue cards created. All that with one click of a button .
Gift of curiosity
This website offers a plurality of free activity templates for kindergarten for a variety of themes. I also appreciate that there are also many examples of science and mathematic activity teacher can use in the classroom. I have used some of these templates in my classroom. They were not too easy nor to difficult for my students. You can easily modify them for any language as well, that is what I did.
The teacher's corner
This website allows you to create your own activities for your students, my favorite us the crossword puzzles. It is amazing, quick, and easy when you want to create your own games for your class. It is personalizable, hence you can make them in any language that you want. The only steps is you put in the words you want and it creates the template for you. I liked to give crossword puzzles to my students when they finish assignments faster than others..
Educatout
This website offers educational games and activities with printable worksheets, tutorials and resources for teachers. It sometimes helped me plan my class activities because of their diversity of themes. This website is in french but I found that they can all be adapted to any language. This rich resource, offers teachers ideas for all kinds of activities like mathematics, oral language, written language, fine motor, gross motor, science experiments, arts, and more.
Slides go
This website allows you to download free and very cute Powerpoints templates. They have many that are related to teaching and other themes. It can be very helpful for making fun, attractive, and interactive presentation for your students.