Apple season and Johnny Appleseed’s birthday (Sept. 26th) are the perfect time to bring engaging, differentiated learning into your classroom! These hands-on apple-themed math and literacy centers are easy to prep, fun for little learners, and designed to meet your students right where they are—no matter their level.
Looking for winter digital activities your students can complete independently? These winter-themed literacy and math centers are perfect for small groups, center time, or extra practice. Includes Google Slides and Boom Cards for skills like letter sounds, 2D and 3D shapes, word families, and more—plus a free sample to try with your class.
Young learners need to move—but that doesn’t mean losing instructional time! In this post, I’m sharing how I combine brain breaks with purposeful, standards-based learning activities to build focus, boost retention, and make lessons more fun.
These are unprecedented and scary times for all of us. With things rapidly changing every day, it is hard to “carry on” as usual because
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.
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?
Young students have a natural desire to create order and make sense of the world around them. They naturally notice similarities and differences. For example,
This is a fun, sun-themed learning center that I like to use at the end of the year for review. It can be easily edited
Here is a simple, fun way to practice number bonds in your math groups – use dominoes! Not only do students love using the dominoes, but they also get practice with subitizing, counting, and addition as well as number bonds.
December is a super busy month! In addition to teaching our regular curriculum, we have to plan & practice for our big Christmas program, finish
Plastic Easter eggs can be used to make a variety of festive learning centers for young students. In this post I’m sharing some of my
Today I’m sharing some fun, hands-on Valentine math centers as well as the printable pages I use with them. They can be easily added to your