This week is one of the best weeks of the entire school year. This week we get to celebrate Johnny Appleseed Day and integrate apples in our classroom. Let's break down TONS of teaching ideas and activities to help you to Get Ready for Apple Week. Teaching Using Biographies Johnny Appleseed Day is September 26th. What a fun way to use the idea of a biography in the classroom. I love to use … [Read more...]
If You Give a Dog a Donut Activities and Fun
The letter Dd is a great time to use the book If You Give a Dog a Donut. I know you will love all of these If You Give a Dog a Donut Activities and Fun ideas for the week. Tying learning into literacy and math skills is a great, solid teaching tip to cover multiple standards in an inventive and engaging way. Charting and Write the Room I love to use this chart (shown in the back) on my … [Read more...]
Back to School Math Activities
Back to School Math is a part of this bundleactivities will be hit in your classroom because the first month of school is a blur. Teachers need time to setting everything up to become functioning and meaningful while learning your students in your classroom. Don't let math the first month be exhausting! Don't get lost trying to complete initial assessments your students AND teach them at the same … [Read more...]
Learning with a Light Table
Learning with a light table is a fun way to let little learners play to learn. By tying in math and reading skills your students are already learning about, you will find them working on learning activities on their own. Here are some examples of ways to increase learning activities with your light table. Light Tables Let me start by telling you that my light table isn't fancy or high tech. I … [Read more...]
Spring Into Math Fun with Spring Themed Math Activities
Spring Into Math Fun with Spring Themed Math Activities by reviewing all those math skills on a regular basis. It is just smart to keep activities reviewing of all those important skills, even as you are building on new skills while we Spring into Math Fun! Check out these hands on Spring Themed Math Activities which is a part of this bundle. First, look at this one activity to help our learners … [Read more...]
St. Patrick Math Activities
March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, just like St. Patrick 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. St. Patrick … [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 frame … [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...]