Check out these cute, 1st Grade worksheets for January. Practice math, reading, and writing with these fun winter themes.

Get teaching with these force and motion experiments, activities and videos to use in the elementary classroom. This collection of force and motion activities and resources should help you cover the topics like texture, gravity, incline and simple machines. If you’re looking for helpful ideas and lesson plans – then this is the place to start! Do you need a refresher … 24 Elementary Force and Motion Experiments & Activities Read More »

These printables are mostly black and white so they will save ink when printing . Click on the little image to go to the download via G...

With 2016 being a Summer Olympic year, my students starting school in the middle of the Olympic period, and me being slightly obsessed with the Olympics, I decided to have an Olympic themed classro…

Please Note: All images seen below are of my students artwork only. These photos/lessons are not posted in any particular order regarding the flow of my curriculum. 3-D WINTER MUGS This lesson in…

Refocusing your students after a break doesn't have to be a struggle! These 6 classroom management tips and teaching ideas can help both you, and your students, get back on track in no time!

Please Note: All images seen below are of my students artwork only. These photos/lessons are not posted in any particular order regarding the flow of my curriculum. 3-D WINTER MUGS This lesson in…

This Habitat Puzzles printable will have your students excited about learning and ready to apply their knowledge of habitats with this free printable.

Hey bloggy friends! Long time, no see! Let me tell you, getting into the groove of this year has been C-R-A-Z-Y! After 3 weeks of gatheri...

On this third grade math worksheet, kids round to estimate the difference between two numbers, a useful strategy for checking the results of calculations. Download to complete online or as a printable!

Need some fresh winter words for vocabulary or puzzle activities? Here is a list of about 50 winter weather words that might

This is one of my FAVORITE art lessons for 2nd grade!! I LOVE each and every one of them!! (More info. and how they were created below! Plus a little virtual gallery walk video!) &nbs…

Each Olympic Games has its own medal design. On one side is a picture of Nike, the goddess of victory, and on the other is a design unique to the Games. Design a medal for the upcoming Games or perhaps design a medal for the Olympic Games if they were to be held in your town.

4th Grade Warm or Cool Birch Trees Fourth grade has been working hard on their mixed media birch trees, for the past couple of weeks. Here's how we created ours.... First, they had to choose if they were going to do WARM colors (Red, Orange, & Yellow) or if they were going to use COOL colors (blue, purple, and green). Then, they painted their backgrounds with Prang tempera cakes, on 12x18 pieces of 90lb paper. After they finished painting, they could start on their birch trees. we used half of a 12x18 sheet, drew them out with rulers, and traced the bark lines with Sharpie markers. The next class, we finished our trees, cut them out and glued them on! Here's a few working on their birch tree paintings.

What is love? What are the things that you love the most? If we could see inside your heart, what would we find there? These are the questions we examined in our class through the Map of My Heart p…

First graders have been working on this painting the past few weeks. We are studying weather patterns and having fun learning new technique...

Last week, we worked on temperature readings to 10 degrees. Check out the free temperature worksheet below! If you like this worksheet we would love if you would follow us! Thanks! Find more worksheets here Download Worksheet here. If you like this post and want to see more please: Follow us on Facebook. Come pin with […]

My PreK students were learning about the different types of shapes. To introduce circles, we read The Dot by Peter Reynolds. Students then used their cutting skills to trim multi-colored squares in…

Download a set of Winter Olympics Printables for your Prek - 1st Grader. Includes an Olympic-themed matching game and wall cards.

Looking for a creative way for your Pre-K, K, and Grade 1 students to practice identifying and completing patterns? Look no further! With this worksheet, students find and complete the unfinished pattern of fabrics on each row of a quilt by cutting and pasting the final fabric square into the correc...

Admiring the newest addition to our little family is often at the top of most families' lists, and that is the time we first teach our kids the basics of addition. After all, it is the foundation of math; one that will always be used by all children. With this being said, it is important

ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,

Product Description 150+ Reproducible Word Study Lessons That Help Kids Boost Reading, Vocabulary, Spelling and Phonics Skills! Students climb to new heights in reading and writing with these fun, engaging, reproducible word-building games! Students read clues on each rung, then change and rearrange letters to create words until they reach the top. All the while, they're analyzing sound-symbol relationships, broadening their vocabulary, and building spelling skills to become better readers. Details: 176 pages 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 Grades: 1-2 Author: Timothy V. Rasinski Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University. He has written over 200 articles and has authored, co-authored or edited over 50 books or curriculum programs on reading education. He is author of the best selling book on reading fluency entitled The Fluent Reader, published by Scholastic, and co-author of the award winning fluency program called Fluency First, published by the Wright Group. His scholarly interests include reading fluency and word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. His research on reading has been cited by the National Reading Panel and has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research. Tim is currently writing the fluency chapter for Volume IV of the Handbook of Reading Research. Tim recently served a three year term on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and from 1992 to 1999 he was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world's most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. Rasinski is past-president of the College Reading Association and he has won the A. B. Herr and Laureate Awards from the College Reading Association for his scholarly contributions to literacy education. Prior to coming to Kent State Tim taught literacy education at the University of Georgia. He taught for several years as an elementary and middle school classroom and Title I teacher in Nebraska.

We've been hard at work with counting activities for preschool this winter. Practice counting in order is often effortless, but filling in the missing number can be a bit of a challenge. These FREE Winter Missing Number Clip Cards for Kindergarten are a great way for students to work independently on number sense. They are also a great review counting game for 1st graders! Just print and place the cards at the kindergarten or preschool math center with some clips and enjoy!

Helping students set and reach goals is the key to a successful year. Let's take a look at a simple strategy and a freebie to get your class started.