Engaging Resources for BUSY Teachers!
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Engaging Resources for BUSY Teachers
Free activities and resources for preschool and elementary classrooms
Building number sense is an important part of developing early math skills. This Math Cube Tower activity is a fun way to develop number sense through play. Math Cube Tower Cards This a great activity to add to your math centers. All you need are the Math Cube Tower Cards and a set of snapping …
In early fall, many teachers do a unit on apples. With books, crafts, and other activities, you can spend a week or a whole month learning about apples. Here are some of my favorite apple activities to do with your students. Visit an Apple Orchard If you are able to take a class trip to …
Using a daily calendar time routine is a fantastic way to build math skills. Students practice counting, making patterns, ordering numbers, and so much more. This happens every day and only takes about 10-15 minutes! A calendar routine can have many different components, depending on how much time you have. Here are some great calendar …
Whether you are teaching in person or online, Boom Cards ™ are a wonderful way to engage your students. They are digital, interactive, and fun for students. As a teacher, you will appreciate that they are easy to use, provide reports about student responses, and help students get extra practice with key concepts. What are …
The start of the school year is overwhelming yet so exciting for students and teachers. While you may want to start right into teaching the expectations and curriculum, the first few days of school are essential to setting the climate of the classroom. This is the time for students to get out first-day jitters, meet …
Dominoes are a wonderful tool for building number sense in kindergarten and first grade. Today, I’m sharing some of my favorite domino math activities. Domino Math Activities #1 Domino Count and Add Place dominoes facing down. Students turn over one domino and count the dots on each side. They then add the two numbers together. …
Printable Narwhal Craft Activity {Freebie} Last week I created a list of my favorite Arctic Animals Videos. I thought it would be fun to make this printable narwhal craft activity to go along with the Arctic Animals theme. This sweet little narwhal is easy to make. Simply download the free file. Look for the link …
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 amazing grammar lesson about commas. Their writing papers show otherwise. What can you do …
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 by showing the relationships between numbers using a fact family. Take a look at this fun …
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, wonderful! I have a free resource for you to try it out. (scroll down) …
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 I created a fun cut and past activity to practice …
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 mind, I created a new snowman themed sentence building activity. Best of all, …
