Kids are going to love exploring geography with these fun, DIY Continent...
My professional life before blogs & Pinterest seems like a long, long ago, dark, desperate time. I've been thinking a lot recently about ho...
Practice contractions for kids with FUN free printable contraction activities for students featuring super cute Crab Contraction Puzzles!
This thermometer worksheet gives your child practice reading and using a thermometer. Try this thermometer and temperature worksheet with your child.
Comparing numbers in K/1 using the greater than, less than symbols can be challenging! Young students often confuse the symbols and struggle with the concept. These three Greater Than, Less Than lessons for kindergarten and first grade will help you teach your students how to confidently compare numbers. Use these lesson ideas with your
Kids will have fun learning about Italy with this FREE Printable Italy Coloring Page. Great for children hearing about Italy on the news. Toddler, Prek-4th.
So over the last 3 weeks my grade 1 students in the UAE have been learning a lot about space, the solar system, and astronauts. This was a...
Montessori Multiplication: The Materials, Printables, Lessons & More!
We have been working hard to learn our names! I have a helper of the day. So we cycle through everyone during the month. The first time we did King and Queen. Each person was the king or queen of the day. They got to wear a crown and cape. The crown was a paper one that they took home at the end of the day. We made a web of all their favorite things. We practiced asking and answering questions. Then everyone made a page for their book. So fun and cute. I took pictures of them all in the cape and crown for the cover. As we did this we added their name to the word wall. The second time through we did a name chart. We added names to this according to their first letter of their name. I did the first letter and different color than the rest so that they could really see their beginning letter. I put a box around all the ones that began with the same letter. Picture coming soon. The third time through did this graph. I cut 3 inch strips of cardstock. I made this chart. Everyday I had the helper come up to the front of the class and I wrote their name on a strip of their choice. Then I cut it up. Letter by letter. They would say "Oh No, It's broken" Then the helper would pick up the pieces and we glued them back together on the chart. I would then pick some names on the chart and we would compare ....Whose name had fewer and more letters than theirs. It really got them talking about their names more and the letters in them. Next time through we will be making "My book of Friends" The kids will actually cut up each name and glue it together to make a book of friends. Picture coming soon!
Hello Everyone! What a great day to start a study on clouds!! Dark clouds this morning releasing a deluge of rain! By 1:00 beautiful clear...
Weather is one of MY favorite topics because so many of my kids NEED to learn about it to help them function in their daily lives. By this point in the year, we have covered most of the basic weather vocabulary from doing our daily weather in our morning group and binders. So, this unit targets some more rare weather vocabulary like "tornado," "foggy," etc. March is also the perfect month for us to work on weather, because we can see everything from -10 to 80 degrees over the course of 31 days! You can get this unit on TPT here or by clicking the picture below. Since today is the first day of the TPT sale, you can get this unit (or any other products in my store) for 28% off! Enter code TPT3 at checkout! So here is your science preview! This month's unit focuses on the following 9 vocabulary words centering around food groups (sunny, tornado, windy, thermometer, rainbow, stormy, lightning, foggy, and thunder). This packet includes: -Materials to create a vocabulary velcro-matching activity -Flashcards -3 Levels of Assessments -22 different worksheets -1 Game (weather bingo). 2 versions based on level of difficulty. -1 File Folder Activity: Matching sunglasses by color and color word (2 levels of difficulty) -1 Weather weekly tracking sheet -1 Adapted book (with matching pieces and comprehension worksheet) -6 Journal pages (includes 2 levels of difficulty) -Parent note home about the unit -1 Cover sheet for kids to color and use as a cover for all their completed work. This unit has materials for learners at different levels. Also, it includes a variety of worksheets which allow my students to work on their science IEP goals as well as a variety of other goals (language arts, math, speech, and OT). I use this unit over the course of an entire month. The kids repeat some of the work, but the repetition seems to help them learn the concepts as well as work on becoming more independent. OK…now onto the good stuff…some photos of this month's unit! Here is the vocab sheet that we use as a velcro matching activity. Here is the highest level of assessment. There are also assessments for receptive and expressive vocabulary words (pictures and words). I am kind of loving the new worksheets I added this month…check them out below! This Bingo game, adapted book, and file folder are perfect for the days you feel like taking a break from worksheets or when your kids finish their work early! These journal pages were a new addition to my science units last month and they were a big hit in my classroom. They come in 2 different levels. One for tracing and one to work on writing about topics independently. For more info on my other science units and more details on what is included, check out these posts! - A post describing my topics for the year as well as how I organize my materials. - A preview of my Dinosaur Unit - A preview of my Landforms Unit. - A preview of my Insect Unit. - A preview of my Plants Unit. - A preview of my Body Parts Unit. - A preview of my Solar System Unit. - A preview of my Food Groups Unit
Help children learn about emotions and track their moods with this free printable mood and emotion wheel chart!
Hi Friends… I hope this post finds you well and enjoying your summer break. I just returned home from a relaxing vacation in Punta Cana! It was a ton of fun and I really needed the R & R 🙂 I actually wrote this blog post on the plane there…BUT… the flight didn’t have any … Science FUN with Interactive Notebooks! Read More »
Help your primary grade students explore, learn, and write about landforms. See our hands-on landforms activities plus our culminating writing project!
Cultivating a postive classroom community is such an important part of teaching, and I've learned that little things go a long way. The Best Part of Me writing activity is a great community builder!
Hello Everyone! This week we spent a lot of time learning about the sun. Our science curriculum stresses learning about and observing the...
If you are like me, you are scrambling to find fun and engaging spring activities that help build skills in the areas of ELA and…
Learn about magnet with these free magnet-themed printables. The set includes a word search, crossword, vocabulary, and coloring pages.
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These FREE 1st grade spiral review morning work worksheets are a great way to start the morning or to use as homework.
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Here’s our unit studies shelf with many of our Astronomy materials. This is our Solar System basket. I paper mache’d the foam planets from a kit in order to make them more durable. The booklet has a great song entitled “The Family of the Sun”. I used a product called sculptamold on this styrofoam […]
These free construction printables and Montessori-inspired construction activities are designed for preschoolers through first grade.
Our plant and animal cell worksheets include the perfect visuals for your animal cell project in Grade 6. Animal cell poster ideas are here!
Number sense is CRITICAL in the younger grades. It is so important for my students to be able to understand what numbers mean and their relationship to one another. Once they have a solid number sense they can then build upon their mathematical skills both inside and outside of the classroom. I have a […]
Have you ever tried making salt dough? It's a fabulous material for creating projects with kids. It's cheap and quick to make.
Looking for ways to engage your students while teaching the continents and oceans? I've got you covered with games, songs, vidoes, and more!
Montessori fraction insets are fabulous. They're also expensive and take up a lot of shelf space.
Bingo game to be played to review geometry terms (lines and shapes). ...
Super cute DIY Maracas are a fun musical instrument craft for kids of all ages. Use these homemade musical instruemnts as a fun craft or music activity !
California Standards ask that 4th graders use accurate proportions to create a figure drawing and to use complementary colors to show contrast and emphasis. With that in mind students created a background using complementary colors for floors and ceilings and neutral colors for their action figures in this project. Before starting in, students viewed silhouettes of action figures and paintings by Hoyes and Haring on the Smartboard. In the past I have used paper pieces to help children "build" their human figures. See here. This year I tried a similar process, except kids used pipe cleaners (which they bent to create elbows and knees) for arms and legs. I liked this a LOT better. In the past, some kids would neglect to use two paper pieces for arms/legs. Using the pipe cleaners took care of that problem (almost) totally!! The project took two 45-min. sessions. Students created the backgrounds with markers (for the floor) and paint for ceilings and walls. The ceiling had to be the complementary color of the floor. Side walls were kids' choices. On Day 2 children stapled 3 papers together (black, newspaper and white), laid out their head, body, arm and leg pieces, drew around their body using a contour line and then cut it out. Finally, they glued their action figure(s) on their background, overlapping. Some students used small pieces of foam core board under the black construction paper body to raise it from the background for added emphasis. These ALMOST make me want to get up and turn somersaults or just dance!!
For some reason I find it easiest to teach value by going paint, then crayon, then colored pencil then graphite. So we start with paint. Official definition of Value (tone, tint, shade...) "refers to the use of light and dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork." Middle school definition of value..."this is hard, why do we have to do this....I want to do something fun!" Ah teaching value at a more advanced level can be a pain in the butt. I find younger students are perfectly happy to learn how to make tints and shades with paint...they delight at the magic of creating colors. Middle school students are less impressed. Remember I'm working with 6th and 7th graders who have never had art before...so they need to learn some basics but are not longer easily amused. I need them to learn how to make tints and shade, tone, or value or whatever you call it in your classroom with paint, colored pencil or crayon and the dreaded graphite pencil. Most students can easily grasp the idea of tints and shade in paint and when guided create a decent black and white gray-scale in paint and tints and shade of a color. While not the most exciting thing in the world it is pretty easy to to. Students that feel tint and shade is too easy are challenged to gradate between two or more colors on the color wheel. Then to show their new skills I asked them to tint and shade or gradate a background and add a silhouette image. I even give them some silhouettes of people in motion as I am more interested in their ability to tint and shade or gradate than anything else. 6th graders shows she gets the concept 6th grader who basically understands the concept but needs a bit more practice with making small changes in color and using the paintbrush 7th grader who has been exposed to the concept twice now. Understands the color mixing... decent but not great paintbrush control 7th grader: 2nd time exposed to concept. Has mastered tints, good paintbrush control and starting to think about compositional choices as she choose to have her tinting follow the shape of the silhouette. One of three bulletin boards showing off value or gradation, lots of teacher and student response to these.
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
This science experiment was a great visual for explaining how fold mountains are formed. It also uses materials you already have in the house.
