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Welcome to The Kindergarten Toolbox Podcast, your go-to guide for creating calmer classrooms and more confident writers in the wonderfully unique world of kindergarten. I’m Amy Murray — former kindergarten teacher, Type C “organized-in-piles” human, and vanilla-latte enthusiast. After years of helping teachers streamline their classroom routines with tips and tools that actually make sense for 5- and 6-year-olds, I created this podcast to support you with the practical strategies you’ve been craving. Each episode is short, actionable, and designed to help you: ✔ simplify classroom management ✔ reduce behavior chaos with systems that stick ✔ teach writing in a way that meets beginning writers where they are ✔ build routines that make your day flow ✔ use visuals, tools, and expectations that really work in K Whether you’re a brand-new kindergarten teacher or a seasoned pro looking for clarity and calm, you’ll find step-by-step support to help you feel more confident and in control. Because kindergarten isn’t just the new first grade, it’s a world all its own, and you deserve tools that actually work.
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- 4 days ago12 min
43. Build-a-Reward: A Simple Whole-Class Behavior System for Kindergarten
Stop reminding your kindergarteners about the same classroom expectations over and over again! A whole-class behavior reward system can help you encourage positive choices, build classroom community, and get your students working together toward a common goal without adding a ton of extra work to your plate. In this episode of The Kindergarten Toolbox, I'm sharing how our Build-a-Reward system works and why visual reward charts are such a great fit for kindergarten. We'll talk about choosing ...
- 1 weeks ago11 min
Are You Accidentally Giving the Wrong Behaviors All the Attention?
Are you spending more time correcting challenging behaviors than noticing the kids who are following directions? It's easy to get caught up in putting out little behavior fires all day long, especially when the same handful of kindergarteners seem to need constant reminders. But what happens when the students making good choices barely get any attention? In this episode of The Kindergarten Toolbox Podcast, we're talking about how positive behavior reinforcement can make a difference in your k...
- 2 weeks ago16 min
41. How to Talk About Behavior at Kindergarten Parent-Teacher Conferences
Have a kindergarten parent-teacher conference coming up where you need to talk about a child's behavior? It's one thing to share assessment scores and work samples, but explaining challenging behaviors to parents can feel a whole lot more uncomfortable. Especially when you're worried about how they'll react or you're not sure what to say. In this episode, we're talking about how to discuss behavior concerns at kindergarten parent-teacher conferences without relying on that old compliment sand...
- 3 weeks ago14 min
40. What Should You Actually Talk About at Kindergarten Parent-Teacher Conferences?
Do kindergarten parent-teacher conferences make you wonder how you’re supposed to fit EVERYTHING you want to tell families into 10 or 15 minutes? Between assessment data, work samples, behavior, academics, independence, and all the things, it can be hard to know what parents actually need to hear. In this episode, we’re talking about what to cover during kindergarten parent-teacher conferences and how to keep those conversations organized, positive, and productive. You’ll learn how to prepare...
- Sep 30, 202612 min
39. What Should You Do When a Kindergartener Asks, “How Do You Spell...?”
Do your kindergarten students ask, “How do you spell...?” approximately 75 times during your writing block? You want them to become independent writers, but simply telling them to “sound it out” isn’t always enough, and spelling every word for them definitely isn’t the answer either. In this episode, we’re talking about what to do when beginning writers don’t know how to spell a word during kindergarten writing. You’ll learn how to decide when to help students stretch out a word, when to send...
- Sep 23, 202610 min
38. Should You Use Sentence Starters in Kindergarten Writing
Should kindergarteners use sentence starters when they’re learning to write? Sentence starters can be a helpful scaffold for beginning writers, especially when they’re paired with a picture, but we don’t want students to become so dependent on them that they don’t know what to write when the sentence starter disappears. In this episode, we’re talking about how sentence starters fit into kindergarten writing instruction, why they can make writing more manageable for beginning writers, and the ...
- Sep 16, 202610 min
37. Why Your Kindergarteners Can Tell You a Sentence But Can't Write One
Your kindergartener just told you exactly what they want to write...so why can’t they get that sentence onto the paper? Writing a sentence might seem like one simple task to us, but for a beginning writer, there are a LOT of skills that have to come together before they can write a sentence independently. In this episode, we’re talking about why kindergarten students can often say a sentence before they’re able to WRITE it and how the speech-to-print connection impacts beginning writing. You’...
- Sep 9, 20269 min
36. Why “Make Good Choices” Doesn’t Work in Kindergarten
Do you find yourself telling your kindergarten students to “make good choices” all day long? It sounds like a perfectly reasonable reminder, but there’s one problem: what YOU consider a good choice might be very different from what a five-year-old considers a good choice. In this episode, we’re talking about why “make good choices” is too vague to be an effective behavior expectation in kindergarten and why behavior isn’t always as simple as a “good choice” or a “bad choice.” You’ll learn how...
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About The Kindergarten Toolbox
Welcome to The Kindergarten Toolbox Podcast, your go-to guide for creating calmer classrooms and more confident writers in the wonderfully unique world of kindergarten. I’m Amy Murray — former kindergarten teacher, Type C “organized-in-piles” human, and vanilla-latte enthusiast. After years of helping teachers streamline their classroom routines with tips and tools that actually make sense for 5- and 6-year-olds, I created this podcast to support you with the practical strategies you’ve been craving. Each episode is short, actionable, and designed to help you: ✔ simplify classroom management ✔ reduce behavior chaos with systems that stick ✔ teach writing in a way that meets beginning writers where they are ✔ build routines that make your day flow ✔ use visuals, tools, and expectations that really work in K Whether you’re a brand-new kindergarten teacher or a seasoned pro looking for clarity and calm, you’ll find step-by-step support to help you feel more confident and in control. Because kindergarten isn’t just the new first grade, it’s a world all its own, and you deserve tools that actually work.
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