Problem solving is challenging for young students (and many adults too)! To support my little friends, I teach them problem solving strategies that they can use when they encounter a problem. We want our students to become independent thinkers who can solve problems, control their emotions, express empathy, and help others.

Looking for fun and engaging kindergarten social studies resources? Check out the interactive notebook that your students will love!

It seems like every day there is an endless stream of students reporting behaviors or incidents that happen in the classroom. On one hand, we want to help our students feel heard and validated so they know we are a safe person for them to talk to. On the other hand, we certainly don't want to feed into the tattle machine. It's a fine line to walk. So how do we handle tattling in our classrooms?

Simple, yet effective social responsibility strategies you can try today to teach kids to be more responsible, make good choices and set attainable goals.

Yesterday I shared the first set of Bible Characters Tot & PreK-K Pack. In this pack kids will learn about 12 different Bible characters including Moses, Martha, Mary Magdalene, Naomi, Ruth, Queen Esther, Peter, Paul

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This Growth Mindset lesson uses the classic book "The Little Engine That Could" to help spark conversations about perseverance and positive self talk. You will need to own, purchase, or be able to borrow this book to teach this lesson. This is a classic tale that has a timeless message which fits ...

Being responsible is such an important character trait ... one that's not seen often enough in our world today. Both parents and teachers can help children understand the importance of responsibility, and songs can help. Today, I want to share some free responsibility songs and rhymes to make the task of character education easier. Free Responsibility Songs and Rhymes for Home or School – YouTube Videos Being Responsible | Little Mandy Manners | TinyGrads Responsibility Song Preschool Fun Learning Music - Llynda Fogle Be Responsible, Safe and Respectful | Children, Kids and Toddlers Song | School Song | Patty Shukla Be Responsible, Safe,

Sequencing is an important skill to teach young children. You can use any or all of these activities to teach sequencing to preschoolers.

Are you looking to add to your kindness theme activities? Use this print and go kindness activity for preschoolers to get your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten students thinking about what it looks like to show kindness to others. This kindness activity is a perfect companion to your Unit on Kindness. ♡♡♡♡Did you know that this resource is part of a money-saving Kindness Activities for Preschool BUNDLE ? ♡♡♡♡ Come check it out! Did you know these clip cards are also part of a SEL Clip Cards BUNDLE? These bright and engaging clip cards show pictures of ways of showing kindness versus not so desirable ways of being kind. The beautiful clip art shows many different common scenarios your young learner would identify with. What’s included in this kindness activity for preschool? 24 x Is This Being Kind (Yes/No)? Clip Cards 9 x Who’s Being Kind? Clip Cards All pages come in vibrant color or ink-saving black and white. Just print on card stock, laminate for durability and then grab some pegs! Super easy!

Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun by Maria Dismondy is a heart warming story about a young girl named Lucy who has the courage to do the right thing. This story teaches us to celebrate differences, be proud of who we are, and to remember we all have a heart with feelings on the inside.

Lots of free courage songs and rhymes for home or school; character education resources that are perfect for growth mindset

ALL ABOUT FRIENDSHIP Friendship and conflict solving skills are so important to teach our kiddos. Our job is to teach them important social skills. They need these tools to ensure successful relationships with their peers and adults. It is tricky, but it can be done! I am sharing some

Try these printable activity ideas for Thank You, Omu!

It is the first week of kindergarten! What do I teach? I get this question all the time! I am so excited to put together this page together for you. I’m sharing our favorite first week of kindergarten read aloud stories and the free coordinating printables I made to go with them. Plus I will s

Grab these free printable activities to go with the book, Rosie's Walk. All the Rosie's Walk activities work on positional words.

Problem solving is challenging for young students (and many adults too)! To support my little friends, I teach them problem solving strategies that they can use when they encounter a problem. We want our students to become independent thinkers who can solve problems, control their emotions, express empathy, and help others.

Fun Apraxia of Speech Activities for Speech Therapy These interactive Apraxia of Speech Activity packets are a creative and engaging way to elicit multiple repetitions of targets (including Apraxia phrases) in speech and language therapy. Designed for children with apraxia or severe articulation needs who are working at CV / VC / CVC level. ******************************************************************** ★ ★ 2020 UPDATE ★ ★  Each theme now includes a matching set of BOOM! Cards perfect for teletherapy and distance learning!  Each set of BOOM! Cards are easy to navigate with a comprehensive Table of Contents. Each of the 6 stories per theme features engaging graphics and moveable pieces so the student can "play" with the characters while practicing their targets. You will also find 6 drill pages, and slides to practice relevant vocabulary at the CV/CVC/CVC level. To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for modern Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with "Fast Pins," (a form of play that gives instant feedback to students for self-grading Boom Cards). ******************************************************************** This apraxia value bundle contains six packets: Farm, Carnival, Garden, Winter Snow, Zoo and Bath Time Themes. Each engaging apraxia packet includes: ★ Baseboard and cut out characters (can be used as cookie sheet activity) ★ 6 x Stories ★ 6 x mini books ★ Data Sheet ★ 6 x Drill Sheets ★ Pacing Boards ★ Apraxia cards (illustrated target words from these stories divided by syllable shape for easy target selection) ★ Cloze phrase drill boards ★ "Power cards" - Engaging illustrations of the most powerful words and phrases in each set. Use these cards to carry over learning and meaning for your students from therapy into everyday communication. ******************************************************************** Your students will have so much fun as they play and interact with the characters! They practice multiple repetitions of target words in a play-based context. The mini books and drill sheets mean you can use this activity with groups and / or centers and you have resources at your fingertips to send for home practice. ******************************************************************** Buyers Say... "Awesome resource for sending home as part of a home program. " "There are not enough good things to say about this packet!! This is well worth the money! I absolutely am loving this. Many different uses and so easy to adapt for kids of various levels. " "What a great bundle of resources for not only kids with CAS, but also severe articulation/phonological disorders and then also to teach basic concepts to anyone on your caseload. These are great! Friendly for little ones while working on important speech (and language!) skills! Great stuff!" "This bundle is AWESOME! worth every penny. It is comprehensive and just what I needed for a few of my little ones with Apraxia. They love the pictures and the bright colors of everything. Thank you for such an awesome product!! :)" ******************************************************************** All packets in the range are suitable for highly unintelligible students and elicit multiple repetitions of target words. They are progressive and students will benefit from therapy using the packet that most closely aligns with their goals.    ★ Apraxia of Speech Activities Farm Pack - Excellent starting point for highly unintelligible students - Includes meaningful VC / CV and CVC practice - Targets short syllable length / simple phonotactic structure - Includes practice of early "power words" to build meaningful communication - Simple, repetitive language - Easily extended into play with common toys / therapy items   ★ Apraxia of Speech Activities Zoo Pack - Meaningful VC /CV/ CVC practice - Repetitive phrases decrease motor load - Introduces a limited number of longer words to begin to develop syllable shape - Easily extended into play with common toys / therapy items   ★ Apraxia of Speech Activities Bathtime Pack - A mid-range pack, still working at the CVC level - Repetitive Phrases - Stories designed to include practice with varied prosody - Includes powerful everyday phrases to aid generalization   ★ Apraxia of Speech Activities Winter Snow Pack - A mid-range pack, still working at the CVC level - Repetitive Phrases - Stories designed to include practice with varied prosody - Includes powerful everyday phrases to aid generalization - Easily extended into play with common toys / therapy items   ★ Apraxia of Speech Activities Carnival Pack - Continues practice mainly at CVC level but begins to expand syllable structure in some targets - Socially engaging story for elementary age children - Includes powerful phrases for social routines with peers - Includes cloze phrases   ★ Apraxia of Speech Activities Garden Pack - The highest level packet in the series of 6 - Still includes practice mainly at CVC level but begins to expand syllable structure in some targets - Also includes some practice with consonant clusters and more complex targets - Includes story elements to encourage varied prosody throughout.

It's hard to talk to students without making it a lecture. Empower students while you teach them about respect using hands on activities

Are you tired or redirecting your class and wasting precious time on behaviors in the classroom? This freebie will help!

We want our kids to have an attitude of gratitude ... and we want to be grateful, too. But it isn't always easy. I'm a real fan of music to help with many skills as well as character education. What fun to have a house or classroom filled with songs of gratitude (not the worst things to be running through your head, either!). Free Thank You Songs and Rhymes for Home or Classroom I also have a post with free thank-you songs and rhymes for home or school. Those songs are about thanking people ... something that's always important. Free Gratitude

Extend the reading and learning with these Elmer the elephant activities. Free printables included for alphabet and character analysis.

Problem solving is challenging for young students (and many adults too)! To support my little friends, I teach them problem solving strategies that they can use when they encounter a problem. We want our students to become independent thinkers who can solve problems, control their emotions, express empathy, and help others.

It's the third week of school for me. I have a brand new class of EAKers- that's Early Admission Kindergarten. In my district we have a special program that is available for kiddos that aren't old enough to start regular kindergarten but that have birthdays after January- EAK. I'm the EAK teacher this year and January 4th was our first day together. I'm loving this group of sweet kids. Most are 4 years old and are about to, or have just turned 5. We are busy learning the letters and sounds and just getting to know each other. With MLK as our first holiday, it's the perfect time to celebrate our individuality and to find our shared interests. My little guys aren't writing yet (we are still practicing writing our names) so doing any kind of writing for MLK is out of the question. But I wanted the kids to have some concrete way to represent diversity so I used the fabulous book The Crayon Box that Talked. If you haven't read this book before, it's an essential for your classroom library. It's totally relatable for a young learner. After reading this we had a great discussion on diversity. Then I had my littles complete a very easy worksheet to put on our writing wall. They only had to write two words- their name being one and their favorite color the second. I have the color words on display on the wall so we looked at those and I modeled writing my favorite one. After that I talked about how I can like other colors as well and those I simply colored in using my box of crayons. Easy peasy. FREEBIE! Click on the picture below to grab the worksheet. My kids were fine with copying their favorite color word from the wall. They were thrilled that they actually wrote a word. Then they were even more excited with they used the wall again to read each other's favorite crayon colors. Seeing their little faces so excited as they discovered that they were readers and writers is really what my job is all about. I always say that I have the best job in the whole world and I really mean it! FREEBIE! Click on the picture below to grab the poem. To continue our discussion of diversity, I will read them another of my favorites. It is called The Colors of Us and it celebrates all different skin tones. My plan is for the kids to complete the sentence "My skin is the color of ____." Then I will break out my skin colored crayons from Lakeshore and have them draw themselves using my Portrait Templates. Click on the picture below to get these. So, that's how we are studying diversity in my class this year. I would love to hear what you are doing in yours. Thanks for stopping by!

At this point in the school year, I am sure you are in survival mode by now... Just trying to make it to Christmas break! I wanted to share one of my favorite lessons with you that is perfect for using at the start of a school year or anytime throughout when students need a lesson on the difference between tattling and reporting. This lesson can come in handy when the classroom becomes more chaotic in anticipation for a break as well. Have you read the story Don't Squeal Unless It's a Big Deal by Jeanie Franz Ranson? You can find it on Amazon (affiliate link) by clicking the picture. This is an adorable story that helps children understand when they need to talk to each other to work out a problem and when they need to call for a grown-up to help. I love this story so much that I created a Don't Squeal Unless It's a Big Deal Unit in my shop that can be used after reading the story. First up, is a scenario sort. Students will sort different situations based on whether they are a "squeal" or a "big deal". After discussing "Squeals" and "Big Deals" as a whole group. I have students respond through a craft and writing activity. Students cut and paste a simple pig craft and then draw and/or write an example of a Squeal and a Big Deal. There are 4 different levels of writing pages included. After your students finish the craft and writing activity, I am sure you will want to display their work! So I included letters for your bulletin board that read, Don't Squeal Unless It's a Big Deal! If you want to see more about what is included in this resource, click here.

Do you need a hands-on, sensory lesson to teach about kind words? You will love this! Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even older kids! Also part of the Virtual Book Club for Kids!

Social emotional learning is the foundation of a successful classroom by creating an environment of inclusion and respect.

Teachers can use these 15 kindness books and videos for the classroom to build kindness in the classroom: random acts of kindness, generosity, and bucket filling.

Collecting data is crucial to showing student growth, but what is the best way to do it without it costing an arm and a leg OR taking up so much space in your classrooms? I like to use the 8 pocket…

A printable game called Taco, Taco, Salsa (letter identification and cvc word options) are the perfect Dragons Love Tacos activities.

At our school book fair last year, I bought a great book called Interrupting Chicken. It’s become a favorite of several of my students, so I’m always looking for more activities I can use when we read it! So imagine my excitement as I perused the boards at Pinterest and found a free activity pack! ...

I have plans to do a few sets of printable packs based on social concepts. I've already done two on feelings and emotions, but I wanted to get into other realms as well. So, to

Problem solving is challenging for young students (and many adults too)! To support my little friends, I teach them problem solving strategies that they can use when they encounter a problem. We want our students to become independent thinkers who can solve problems, control their emotions, express empathy, and help others.

There’s a lot of tattling going on in preschool classrooms! It can often feel like a nuisance, especially with preschool teachers dealing with larger

The question is often asked of Kindergarten teachers, ‘How do you teach Writing’? After a few years of trying different methods and writing programs, I finally found something that works for me and my

Lou's teachers had the best idea. I tried to get it together for my own class on the last day but gave up. I have it in my plan book ...

Create a collaborative class book after enjoying Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes plus more book activities.