Looking for a festive way to mix math and creativity this November? These Thanksgiving Cornucopia Math Crafts and Centers turn counting, addition, and graphing practice into hands-on fun your students will love! They’ll stay engaged, build fine motor skills, and create adorable cornucopias you’ll be proud to display before the holiday break.
Keep young learners engaged this spring with fun, hands-on rainbow math activities! From counting with colorful cereal to addition craftivities and interactive math games, these engaging ideas are perfect for kindergarten and first-grade classrooms. Explore creative ways to reinforce number sense, sorting, and addition while bringing vibrant spring energy to your math centers!
Free March In Like a Lion Out Like a Lamb Calendar & Weather Activity My students always enjoy this calendar activity! I hope yours will too! Does the saying “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb” hold true this year? Find out by keeping track of lion days (cold, winter-like […]
This blog post offers practical tips and effective strategies for introducing and utilizing sound walls to help students connect speech to print and improve phoneme-grapheme correspondence. Learn how to make daily lessons engaging, use mirrors for articulation awareness, movement, build excitement with lock cards, and incorporate interactive activities. Find helpful resources and professional development recommendations to enhance your teaching practice.
Engage young learners in meaningful Earth Day activities with hands-on science experiments, crafts, and interactive lessons that teach the importance of caring for our planet. From water and air pollution experiments to solar oven s’mores and Earth Day crafts with writing prompts, this post is packed with engaging, easy-to-implement ideas. Create a stunning bulletin board, sing an Earth Day song, and inspire students to make a difference. Perfect for classrooms looking to celebrate Earth Day!
Explore engaging Presidents Day crafts, activities, and books about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln! Perfect for young students, this guide features creative crafts, fun sorting games, interactive Boom Cards, and must-read books to make learning about these presidents exciting and meaningful.
The winter months can be hard for young students (and teachers) when outdoor recess is limited and the holidays are over. This is why I like to add something different and exciting to our lessons. I started creating escape rooms for kindergarten after doing a few with my family and having such a great time […]
Young students get soooo excited about the holidays so I like to harness some of that energy for learning activities. If an activity has a fun Christmas theme, they are in! As you may already know, I love using sorting activities in the classroom. Young students have a natural instinct to make sense of the […]
I love celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with young students! Those tricky leprechauns are always “visiting” our classroom creating some sort of hijinks! But I also like students to know about the origin of the holiday and how it came to be celebrated here in America, so I use some of the “leprechaun lore” to motivate […]
The first day back to school after winter break I always like to talk to the students about the new year. During morning meeting we discuss how the date has changed to incorporate not only a new month but a new year. Then we talk about how sometimes people reflect back on the previous year. I […]