K-1 POETRY UNIT I love teaching poetry to kindergarten and first grade students! Even though I have this labeled as Unit 8 in my Writing Series , I actually teach poetry throughout the entire year. We follow the same routine and students look forward to our poetry week every month.
Cooking, card games, coloring, and chores!
Looking for a fun vocabulary activity? This extension is perfect for middle and high school to help encourage critical thinking and associations.
Need to entertain the kids? Try some of these free indoor and outdoor activities for kids that can all be done from your own home. There's also a list of free online educational resources.
Kids and young adults need extensive practice in strengthening their executive functioning skills. Executive functions are the processes in our brains that help us accomplish all tasks from beginning to end. We use them when we plan our day, organize our materials, begin a chore, focus on important
Printable Dots Game
The Good Egg Activities - use these activities to help students understand what is and is not their responsibility & practice self care for managing stress!
Get your students outside this school year! We have some tried and true ideas and teacher tips to help you teach your students outside!
Free printables for kids, including social stories, I spy games, visual schedules, calm down cards, autism printables, emotion printables, and more!
Teach children about emotions with activities to identify, express, and manage their feelings appropriately in school with these tips!
How to Avoid the Summer Slide! Summer is right around the corner! We all LOVE our summer vacation, but not the "Summer Slide!" The Summer Review Packets
You can use these kinesthetic activities right away! Incorporate hands-on learning into your child’s lessons and improve long-term learning.
Are you looking for a fun natural selection simulation activity for your evolution unit? You are in the right place. “Survival of the Fittest Finch” will not disappoint you nor your students! I did…
This blog post explores innovative and engaging lesson plans for any novel unit... ranging from task cards to book instagram pages to a novel podcast project. Student choice is key here, and students can find something they would like to complete in order to convey their reading, comprehension, and
Short and sweet post today to let you know about an awesome chemistry gossip activity I found for FREE on TpT. I gave it to my physical science students as a
These crossing midline activities support development of crossing the midline plays in functional tasks like learning and self care.
Are your students disinterested and tired of the traditional ways of learning characterization? Have you been searching for a really fun, student-centered, interactive way to eliminate their boredom? Well, look no further! I present to you a wonderful student-collaboration activity that will get your students involved and excited for a character analysis for any novel, […]
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A list of little to no-prep, hands-on activities allowing students to experiment and learn Earth Science without relying on a textbook.
5 Activities to Teach Angles
Have you been wanting to try stations in your Secondary ELA classroom but aren't sure where to start? Read through this quick post where we share 8 station ideas and how to use them with your ELA students.
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Use your bricks to teach kids LEGO coding. Fun and easy ideas for LEGO coding activities include binary code and algorithms.
Morphology instruction is a powerful strategy for improving vocabulary and comprehension. This post shares several morphology activities.
Tips for Primary Teachers.
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These English teacher supplies are must haves for quick ELA lesson plans. Pair your back to school wish list with ideas for English teachers!
FREE Minecraft Learning Printables (Various Subjects)
A teaching resource that includes dozens of free printables and helpful website links to use in the classroom for elementary and middle school students.
This lab is one of my top sellers in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. It is easy to set up and doesn’t require a lot of materials. However, I frequently get questions about the lab so I’m hoping this blog post will be useful to those teachers out there who about to set up this ... Read more
¿Quién tiene la razón? ¿Cómo es posible que los dos tengan razón? One of the most important tasks outside of language learning that world language teachers face is to make our students aware of the…
It is helpful for your client to have an art therapy supplies kit that they can use when seeking coping strategies through art therapy activities.
This is a cute activity where ESL students have to draw monsters based on the description of the body parts on the worksheet.
Teamwork in the classroom is essential in order to have a high functioning and welcoming environment for students. Check out three easy ways to build teamwork with your students.
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Click the following link to download this free poster Homophones Poster Many reading programs introduce the concept of homophones in second grade. Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have a different meaning. Our students need to be able to tell the difference in the meanings of these words and to use […]
Back to school time and need some 'getting to know you' activity? Ditch those reading interest surveys and try these fun & hands on activites!
Make teaching coins, coin value, and money easy with these kindergarten money activities from a real kindergarten classroom!
An English educator's blog about teaching, classroom organization, and Common Core resources.
Bring science to life with these low-cost, easy experiments! Here are hands-on ways to teach earth science including landforms, rocks, minerals, and more!
A 2nd grade winter early finishers social emotional worksheet that makes students think about things they can and cannot control.
How can sound be waves? It is a hard concept for kids. Try these 7 science experiments for kids to SEE sound. Learn the 5 senses with STEM activities.
Modify your math program by differentiating math activities, and by having lots of hands on math centers practice for reinforcing core math skills.
