Are you in need of a FUN activity to engage your class and allow your students to have fun at the same time? Try using secret code words! Secret code words are a GREAT engaging way to practice number recognition, letter recognition, and putting letters together to make words. Here is a little learner in action..He is using the code breaker sheet to write sight words. Here is another student … [Read more...]
Presidents’ Day Preparations
Tomorrow starts the week long study of US Presidents followed by a week long study of US Symbols. Our curriculum specifically states to learn about Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and who ever is our current president. How do I do this? I tackle one president a day for one week. One Monday we talk about the US's first president George Washington. We have a paid subscription to … [Read more...]
Letter K
Letter Kk is so much FUN. It is a great time to learn about the letter that sounds like the letter C. Here are great Letter Kk Ideas to making learning fun inviting and engaging. I start this letter like I do all my letters, we read the Alphatales book about the letter Kk and follow it with the minibooks. We also watch this video from Have Fun Teaching... Letter Kk. Letter Kk Idea #1- … [Read more...]
Adding Three Numbers
Need some fun ways to get your students practicing adding three numbers together? I have a FUN way to engage learners and get your students practicing math. I have an activity for you to work on adding three numbers. While doing homework with my sweet S, who is now 7 years old, I got an idea. She was working on adding three numbers together. As soon as she went to bed, I headed to my computer … [Read more...]
Sweet Math Activities for Valentine’s Day
Let's get sweet on some seasonal favorites to make math a little more fun this month. I am not talking about conversation heart sorting and graphing, but I am talking about some new and FUN ideas to make math a completely SwEeT experience. Let's dive into some sweet math activities for Valentine's Day. I grabbed these little heart containers at the dollar store. {You can also try Party City … [Read more...]
Letter Nn Activities
Letter Nn Activities are here to help you and your students LOVE learning about the letter Nn. I have a ton of fun, engaging, and meaningful Letter Nn activities that will be ideal to teach your little learners into letter n experts in no time. Let's start with some phonics printables. We do one day of sensory phonics, three days of these printables activity sheets, and then a charting … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Activities for Kindergarten
Are you looking for some fun pumpkin activities for Kindergarten? Check out these engaging pumpkin-themed learning activities that you will help you practice skills with your little learners. Pumpkin Number Recognition Activity My little learners are rocking numbers 1-10, but we always struggle with those teen numbers. I know if we don't continuously practice teen numbers, we seem to … [Read more...]
All About the Letter T
Working on learning all about the Letter Tt soon? Get ready! Let's make learning all about the letter Tt activities the best! One of my favorite subjects to teach in K is phonics. I LOVE teaching students the sounds letters make and how to put those sounds together to make words. {I can't lie... I love every subject in K. But I really REALLY love phonics too!} My school began teaching the … [Read more...]
The Outstanding Letter O
The letter O is usually the FIRST vowel we teach in kindergarten. It is such an important sound to master and be able to use throughout the whole school year. It makes it critical to make this letter meaningful and FUN. {I am a huge fan of memorable learning.} I know you are expecting me to start with letter and sound activities. But I am actually going to start with some math activities.A … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
Hi sweet friends. We are almost done with school here in GA. In fact we have 15 days left or 3 weeks of school. What does that mean? This is one of the last for this school year. So let's to it and allow me to show you our math centers for the week while we learned about insects. We used the book The Grouchy Ladybug as a learning tool this week. My yellow table was our time … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
I hope you guys are ready for a few math center ideas we used this week as we learned about insects. The yellow table held our graphing center. I made this simple graph sheet for some insect erasers. I got these erasers {here} on amazon. And to tell you the truth, I am not loving this graphing sheet that I made about 9 years ago. So I stopped the presses and made you guys a … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
Hi Sweet, Sweet Friends! I am so glad to be bring you another edition of Center Saturday. This most is dedicated to talk about my MATH weekly work centers. We have completed all our Math Standards for the year, so now we are in complete review and cycling our curriculum to make sure we haven't forgotten anything. Our theme this week were Plants and Gardens. Our yellow table hosted our … [Read more...]