Fun Ideas for Your Winter Math Centers Looking for some fresh ideas to add a little fun to your winter math centers? Your students will enjoy exploring math concepts and solving problems with these winter …
Winter Literacy Activities
Explore the Fun of Winter with These Engaging Literacy Activities. Penguins, snowmen, and polar bears, oh my! Winter is here. Your students will love practicing reading and writing with these fun winter themed activities. Winter …
Christmas Math and Literacy Activities
Bring the fun and excitement of Christmas into your math and literacy activities! I enjoy seeing my students' eyes light up when they see an engaging new learning game or center activity with elves, reindeer, and of course the jolly guy …
How to Use Sentence Dictation to Improve Writing
The situation is all too familiar. Your students do well on their weekly spelling tests. However, a week or so later they misspell some of those same words in a writing assignment. You thought they mastered the concepts from last week's …
Fact Family Houses
Math Facts In order for students to succeed at higher-level math, they must first develop a strong foundation of understanding. Mastering basic math facts is a critical component of this. One way to help students understand math facts is …
How to Integrate More Technology into Your Lessons
Are you looking for an engaging way to integrate more technology into your classroom? Has your school gone 1:1? Are you curious about going digital in your classroom? Would you like to try an interactive lesson for Google Drive™? If so, …
How to Get Parents to Actually Read Your Class Newsletter
You know that parent-teacher communication is important. So, each and every week you put together a beautiful class newsletter. You fill it with all the important details about the wonderful events in your classroom. You include spelling …
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Modeling Word Problems – A Thanksgiving Freebie
Thanksgiving is only 2 weeks away. I am looking forward to spending the day with my big extended family. This summer we moved back to MN so we could be closer to our family, so we are really looking forward to this holiday season. Today …
Building Sentences and Snowmen (FREEBIE)
Sentence Scrambles: It's Time for Some Winter Fun Bundle up. Grab the hot cocoa. Winter will be here soon. My kids are looking forward to the first snowfall. They have big plans for making snow angels and building snowmen. With this in …
Stamp Out the Fire Freebie
It's October and Fire Safety Awareness time. This FREE dot marker activity gives students a chance to "Stamp Out the Fire" as they learn about shapes. Download this FREE Dot Marker Shape Activity …
Square Pumpkin Craft
October is coming soon. I see pumpkins in the stores and the Halloween aisles are stocked with costumes, decorations, and other fun goodies. Here is an easy Pumpkin Craft using colored paper, wiggly eyes, and a few pipe cleaners. This …
Sparkling Corn Craft
What is better than corn on the cob? Sparkling Corn!! My 6-year-old daughter helped me create this fun corn craft project. We started with yellow and green paper and a few packs of sequins in gold, orange, and green colors. We also used …