Start the New Year with Squirrel's New Year's Resolution To start the New Year with a bang, I suggest using the fun book Squirrel's New Year's Resolution. (You can grab it here on Amazon.)It is such a fun way to talk about and resolutions in a way that little learners can understand. Integrating holidays and ELA is such a great use of time in the classroom. This sweet book is about a Squirrel who … [Read more...]
Winter Animal Fun
Last week, I was prepping for a week of Arctic and Antarctic Animals. I needed some center and hands on activities for the week but I just couldn't find what my students needed. What is a gal to do but create it! Let me introduce you to some winter animal learning fun integrating math and phonics. This is what we used this past week for our learning centers. Winter Animal Fun: Matching … [Read more...]
MLK Activities for Kindergarten
Martin Luther King Jr was not just an Important Human Rights Leader. He was so much more. To honor him and he great works, I created an MLK Print & Play Pack to make sure that teaching about this man could be done easily in many classrooms, even with the very young minds. Check out these MLK Jr. Activities for Kindergarten. Introducing MLK I love to show the Brain Pop Jr video on MLK … [Read more...]
10 New Year Resolutions Teachers Should Make
10 New Year Resolutions Teachers Should Make is all about trying to make yourself into a better you, to focus on an area to improve upon. Teachers are masters of multitasking and honestly, they usually take on too many tasks and work on too many things. So how can we teachers resolve to improve? What kind of resolutions should we make to improve our overall lives? Here is a list of 10 New Year … [Read more...]
Roll’n Write Activities Bring Writing Alive
Writing isn't my favorite subject to teach so I am always looking for ways to make writing more fun for my little learners and myself. I want to engage my learners and make them enjoy writing. One way I will be teaching writing this year is my using Roll'n Write Activities. I love how they integrate nouns, verbs, and adjectives to create real or silly sentences but with a hands on … [Read more...]
Breaking Down the Water Cycle for Little Learners
Let's chat about how to breakdown the water cycle for little learners in lots of fun ways. Since I live in Georgia and snow isn't a common occurrence, I like to have this unit prepped and ready for when the cold weather does come! When the words "snow" and "ice" show up in the meteorologist's vocabulary, we all start paying attention. When the teachers and parents start chatting about a "snow day" … [Read more...]
New Years Resolutions for Educators
New Years resolutions are a great way to reflect on ourselves as educators and strive to work harder on a specific area. Some resolutions may be specific to yourself as a teacher, others as a partner or mother, and still others as a whole person. Isn't it incredible that teacher strive to make themselves better each and every year?! Here is a list of New Years Resolution for educators you can … [Read more...]
Cheetos Snowflake Freebie
Cheetos Snowflakes?? They have done it again. Just when we think their seasonal Bag of Bones were the highlight of the year for us teachers... Cheetos has released another seasonal product called Snowflakes. And they are YUMMY.So of course I jumped on the chance to make you guys another fun, interactive, and delicious snowflake freebie file. And seriously... this file is completely free. Sorting … [Read more...]
Brrrrilant Winter FUN
January is always snow much fun in Kinder. These babies start to grow up and we really build on our prior knowledge. Since behaviors seems to settle in, the learning grows... and our ability to stretch the activities and have amazing amounts of meaningful fun occurs. AKA- We have a blast learning because we can handle it. Meaningful FUN learning is what makes Kindergarten the BEST … [Read more...]
New Years Resolutions
Bye Bye 2013 You will be missed... You completed my family, allowed me to reach several professional goals, and you gave my family great memories. Hello 2014. You are full of hope and promise for "better" ness. My friends at Freebielicious and I want to share some of our goals and resolutions for 2014 with you! To help you get a jump start on the new year we've also added some freebies that may … [Read more...]
MLK Jr. Lesson in Kindergarten
MLK Jr. Lesson for Kindergarteners It is typical in Kindergarten to teach about the US Holiday, and that includes teaching about MLK Jr. Let's talk about books, activities, and lesson plans to teach MLK Jr. Lesson for Kindergarteners to understand. Use Great Books on Martin Luther King, Jr. First, let me share that we read several non fiction books about MLK Jr to help my kids learn … [Read more...]