March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, just like march math activities! This month brings lots of skill building and practicing as we prepare these little ones for the home stretch! We try to teach all the math standards during this grading period and then grow those skills during the last grading. Using the St. Patrick math activities will be a ton of learning fun. My secret plan to … [Read more...]
Simple & Meaningful US Symbols
One of my favorite themes to discuss US Symbols with my awesome little learners. Let's talk about some simple and meaningful US Symbols. It is such a fun unit to integrate across many subject areas. I teach this unit directly after I teach about Presidents since there is a direct tie in to each other. First, we start the week by discussing what symbols are in our everyday life. We talk about … [Read more...]
Centered on Learning: The Letter Uu
Let's talk about some skill building, engaging activities we can use with out students to get them excited about learning. After all, eager learners who WANT to work on skills are the students we want to have. We don't get these types of students instantly. We have to prep and plan for these types of activities to get students "centered on learning." And specifically this week, I want my … [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...]
Centered on Learning: Letter Ii
Let's get talking about center time and how we can get our students centered on learning activities that are cross curricular and engaging, In this case, how we can get them centered on learning: Letter Ii. Time is always my enemy. The desire to make activities cross curricular so it layers my activities and learning is real. I integrate as many of our weekly topics into skill building … [Read more...]
Centered on Learning: The Letter Mm
Center time is an amazing time to foster learning in a classroom. It is a great time to dedicate towards skill building and mastery of a standard. I aim to make this time fun, engaging, and exciting for my little learners. Since we were learning about the Letter Mm, so let's dive into getting centered on learning for the letter Mm. Yellow Table This center was home to our muffin ten … [Read more...]
Letter Gg Ideas To Make Learning Fun
I love diving into letters with a letter of the week. I know many schools do not use a letter of the week anymore, but my school district requires it as we use Recipe for Reading. And honestly... it ins't a bad thing at all! So let's dive into the Letter Gg Ideas to make this letter meaningful. I do not just focus on one letter all week long. Instead I focus on that letter, its formation and … [Read more...]
Fill the Ten Frame
Fill the ten frame is a game I invented to help my learners enjoy learning. A huge joy in the classroom is when you see your learners actively engaged in a game. They are having so much fun they forget they are doing real work. This is a complete victory for the learner and the teacher. Break Down Fill the Ten Frame Let me break this game down to show you how powerful and FUN it can be! Since we … [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...]
The VERY fun Letter Vv
When I get to certain letters in our letter order, I cringe. I just don't always have a lot of FUN materials to cover those tough ones. I mean letters like V, Y, Z can be tough to make fun, can't they!? Let's check out the VERY fun letter Vv. This is exactly why I made my letter packs... for all the letters... not just the easy ones. Check out our Vv Learning from last week, which is part of … [Read more...]
Center Saturday {with a freebie}
Welcome to my weekly post dedicated to MATH CENTERS. This week, we had a blast with Dr. Seuss, Presidents' Day and US Symbols, and St. Patrick's Day to help us to to review and learn more about math. I try to mix and match our math centers to cover MANY skills for our Some of these are a remediation or review to keep our learned skills in those brains. Other skills are fun … [Read more...]
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog {with a Freebie}
Oh the weather outside is frightful... and I know it is still winter... {I live in GA and we might have a delayed start tomorrow because it is SOOOO COLD.} BUT I am already making some FUN plans in the spring using the NEWEST book from Lucille Colandro called... There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog. Check out this cute cute cute book! Here is the link to this book on … [Read more...]
