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Mother's Day Cards for Distance Learning

Easy Mother’s Day Cards that Use Students’ Photos

Create memorable Mother’s Day cards with your students’ photos! Learn how to turn classroom snapshots into personalized, keepsake cards with printable and digital templates. Perfect for both tech-savvy and beginner learners, these easy-to-make cards can be customized in PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Seesaw for a sentimental gift moms will cherish for years.

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How to Set Up an Escape Room in the Early Elementary Classroom

How to Set Up an Escape Room for Younger Students

Escape rooms aren’t just for older kids—they’re a fantastic way to get even your youngest learners engaged in problem-solving and teamwork! In this post, I share step-by-step tips for setting up a classroom escape room for kindergarten and early elementary grades. You’ll learn how to create simple storylines, design skill-based clues, and guide your students through puzzles that build literacy, math, and reasoning skills—all while keeping the activity fun and manageable.

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Reindeer student gift bag & Christmas student gift tag

Christmas Student Gift Ideas & Gift Tags

Discover 10 creative and affordable Christmas gift ideas for students that are perfect for young learners! This blog post shares easy-to-make gifts with printable, editable tags to add a personal touch. From reindeer gift bags to playdough surprises, glowsticks, and more, find thoughtful ideas that won’t break the bank. Save time during the busy holiday season and create gifts your students will love!

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Thanksgiving Roll and Cover Game

Thanksgiving Roll & Cover Games with a Freebie (Print & Digital)

If you’re looking for a simple, no-prep way to keep your students engaged before Thanksgiving break, these Thanksgiving Roll & Cover games are one of my favorites! They’re easy to set up, fun to play, and give students meaningful practice with counting, subitizing, and addition. You’ll find both print and digital Seesaw versions (with virtual dice rolling!) so every learner can join in. Plus, I’m sharing the Thanksgiving version as a freebie along with a few other seasonal ideas you can use right away.

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Candy Corn Math & Literacy Activities

Discover fun and engaging candy corn math and literacy activities perfect for fall, Halloween, or Thanksgiving! Practice patterns, counting, number sense, comparing numbers, and alphabet skills with hands-on games and interactive Boom Cards. Ideal for centers, small groups, party stations, and more, these activities make learning fun and rewarding—plus, who doesn’t love eating candy corn as a treat?

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