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 … [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 smart … [Read more...]
If You Give a Mouse a Brownie Learning Fun
Laura Numeroff released a new book in her "If You Give a..." series called If You Give a Mouse a Brownie. It is a great addition to any library and it is sure to be a hit with little learners. As a teacher, I love to turn a well written and illustrated book into inspiration for learning activities to hook my learners. Learners can easily practicing their skills in fun ways. Let's check out my … [Read more...]
April Fools Day Learning
April Fools Day is coming up this Friday. Although it might be fun to play a harmless prank on your students and play fun of the day, I want to present to you an alternative that is FUN, educational, and also lets the idea of April Fools play out. I suggest using the book April Foolishness by Teresa Bateman and Nadine Bernard Wescott to create fun literacy stations. Here is the book on … [Read more...]
Why Do I “Daily 5”
Why Do I Daily 5? There are so many good ways, if not great ways, to teach reading skills to little ones. When I was fresh out of college, I had no clue how to actually teach little ones to read. My first year in K was an eye opener. Teaching reading skills to little ones is a HUGE component of kindergarten. Ideally, we want to teach our students a love of reading and a passion to read … [Read more...]
Top O’ the Learning For Little Learners
We know March 17th is coming. And we know our little learners are getting more and more excited about St. Patrick's Day. So let's embrace their excitement... harness it... and use it for the greater good. Let's talk about ways to make Saint Patrick's Day more fun and engaging in your classroom.Get ready... this is a HUGE post full of Ideas... products to enhance learning... and … [Read more...]
SNOW Much Fun… with a HUGE Freebie
This post is full of ideas to cover everything about SNOWMEN in a kindergarten classroom, including an awesome Classroom Management idea with a HUGE freebie. {Keep reading... it will be worth it.} Each January, I get excited when I get to teach about snow, ice, and SNOWMEN. Here in Georgia, we get snow maybe once a year. And usually that doesn't "stick" to the ground for more than … [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...]
Thanksgiving Fun in Kindergarten
Of course I love to use literature to meet more educational needs and ideas. Here is the FUN book, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie. We use this sheet and crayons to complete a listening and following direction activity. I love to record the directions and set the audio file on a CD so this station is independent. It makes my students follow directions the first time and move … [Read more...]
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat {Times Two}
You are never going to believe that that old lady is eating now!Check out this book... There Was an Old Lady Who... you got it... Swallowed a BAT! SEQUENCING ACTIVITIES All our students LOVE the old lady books. And us teachers LOVE using a great book to teach content. Here are the sequencing cards. After we use the sequencing cards to review the book, we use this … [Read more...]
If You Take a Mouse to School
BACK TO SCHOOL IS COMING. Wal-mart is getting stocked... the calendar is counting down... We all know it is coming. One of my best selling products of all times is this unit... If You Take a Mouse to School Unit! which is ideal to use at the start of the year. Let me break this pack down for you... There is a reading comprehension game to play with your students. with tons of … [Read more...]
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell {Times Two}
There Was an Old Lady Who... yeppers... Swallowed a SHELL! Let's face it... Every student I have ever met adores these books. Here is some of the activities my class completed using this book. Here is a labeling activity. This is the word wall we used for many writing activities. This is the Write Me Three Sheets they can use to write independently. Here are the … [Read more...]
