Want to seem like an excellent math teacher? Play the substitution game. It is worth 1000 worksheets. It's never boring and it's different every time.
Describing 3D shapes in kindergarten is now an expectation as it is a key geometry standard. Also referred to by its indicator number K.G.3 this standard focuses on four main 3D shapes - the cylinder, sphere, cube and cone.
Handy free printable leif erikson for kids worksheet and coloring pages to make into readers to learn about famous early explorer!
Spring is definitely my favorite time of year to teach Science! There are just so many hands-on concepts that are so interesting to the students. Plants, of course, is always so interesting because they are something the kids can see all around them and they all have some kind of experience with. First up, here are some of our centers we have going on during our study of plants. This first one is the same green mat as the one below, just with different sorting objects. This is our Spring Sensory Tub. So far, it contains flowers, pots, rubber bugs, and bug cards that the students can match with the rubber bugs. This seed matching center is one of my favorite Science centers. Each large card contains an empty seed packet and some seeds. The students find the small card with the same seeds and matches it to the large card. One of the student's favorite activities was going on a nature hunt and then using what they found to create their own nature collages. And of course, no study on plants would be complete without planting our own beans! We planted pinto and lima. (The clear cups make it easy to see how the roots grow!) Want to completely amaze your Kinders?! Just change white carnations into colored carnations with food coloring and water! At the end of our unit on plants, I split the students into five groups and they made posters to present to the class about what they learned. Watching them work together and figure it all out on their own is always my favorite part of group projects. I wrote the title for each group on a piece of paper, but the students did all the planning, writing and drawing on their own. "How to Plant a Seed" "Plant Needs" "What We Know About Plants" "Types of Plants" "Parts of a Plant" Update: I have created a Living & Nonliving Mini Unit to continue our study of living and nonliving things. You can see it on Teachers Pay Teachers, here. Or you can read about it on my newest blog post, here.
Retelling Sticks are a tool for students to help them retell stories, while identifying and describing story elements. The visual cues will aid students in providing key ideas and details as they retell and sequence. Glue the laminate circles to popsicle sticks and they are ready to use!
Kids will love practicing identifying real world shapes in 3D with this free pritnable Shape Bingo Game. This is great math activity for Pre k, Kindergarten, and Grade 1.
Looking for some great books for career lessons? You'll love these books for your school counseling classroom guidance lessons!
Get this free magnet worksheet to use when you test the magnetism of everyday objects. Perfect for kids ages 4-6!
These FREE Human Body Emergent Readers are a fun way for kids to learn about the systems of the body like organs, muscles, bones, and more.
Learn about Japan for Kids with this printable book to read, color, and learn about Mt Fiji, charming gardens, and sushi without leaving home!
Scripted SCIENCE lessons for kindergarten - Engaging, easy to prep, and includes everything you need! Nonfiction read-aloud books, PowerPoints for every lesson, student activities and workbooks... Kids LOVE this program! NGSS and TEKS aligned.
Engage your class in an exciting hands-on experience learning all about science! K-2 Endless Science Mega Bundle is perfect for science in Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade classrooms and is packed full
Practice using a ruler with these handy, free printable, measurement worksheets for kindergarten students using inches.
A complete kindergarten math curriculum that covers a full 36-week school year, just open and go! Affordable, engaging, short lessons, and fun!
Yum! Synonym Success!
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Use the correct positional word to describe the position of the bee in this preschool positional word worksheet.
I'm not gonna lie, when those Next Gen Science Standards came out and had light waves and such for first grade, my stomach turned in knots a little. Ok, a lot
Printables for toddlers and preschoolers. Alphabet games, Scissor skills pack, Pre-writing & more!
Check out these cute, 1st Grade worksheets for January. Practice math, reading, and writing with these fun winter themes.
I'm finding myself thinking once again about motivation. It's never really very far from a teacher's mind. "How can I motivate my kids to...?" Several years ago I came across a homework activity called "Math About Me." It seemed like a great idea. I wanted my mathematicians to know that math surrounds them but more importantly that math is all about them and their own lives. Six-year olds tend to want to learn about things that are about them. Don't we all? I'm 40, and it's still true for me 34 years later. I've tweaked the activity a few times over the years from its original state, but I still send it home and ask kids to fill it out and return it to school. What do I do with it? Grade it? Slap a sticker on it and send it back home? Nope. Well, isn't it obvious? We've got ourselves another classroom book to make. Check it out. (Click on the picture for your own copy.)
St. Patty's Day is approaching! There are many learning activities available. I am so excited about this unit!
What makes a house a home? Have some fun exploring your home with your little learner.
Reading worksheets to help kids practice their reading skills and comprehension. Includes fiction & non-fiction texts followed by comprehension exercises. Also worksheets focused on phonics, reading sentences and paragraphs and specific reading comprehension topics. Free | Reading | Worksheets | Grade 1 | Printable
A free first grade literacy packet for learning at home.
Learn about the world around them with this Steel wool and vinegar reaction experiment for kids exploring simple chemical reactions.
Learn about The Philippines for kids with this printable country study book for kids to read facts, color, and learn. Print FREE resource!
“Farkle!” is an extra fun way to practice number sense and place value skills with intermediate students. They’ll practice adding large numbers and fine tune their computation skills without knowing it! 🙂 I’ve used this in the classroom as for my early finishers, as a sub activity, and even in a math summer camp! I ... Read More about Farkle! Fun
This is the most popular free printable at Liz’s Early Learning Spot. They’re tiny books made from 1 sheet of paper, just fold and cut one slit. There’s 1 for addition and 1 for subtraction! Pop over and download them now! I wish you happy teaching and learning! You Might Also Like:Addition And Subtraction STEM ... Read More about My Free Little Math Books
This opposites game for preschool is a great learning tool for kids in preschool through first grade. We love the real images!
Do your young learners have poetry journals?! Mine do and we love them. The main question I have been asked in the past is what I put inside my journals and I created a resource to help answer that question. Most of the poems in our poetry journals are phonics poems, but I also […]
I am absolutely obsessed with anchor charts! What about you? I just love making them, and I love how they engage my students in whatever ...
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Howdy! I'm officially on spring break and it came at the perfect time. Here in good ol' Kansas this week we will be having highs in the 70's...pefect flip-flop weather! Winning!!!! So...this afternoon I have to trudge down to my basement and find all my spring and summer clothes and so the switching out of the winner clothes begins. :) We are getting ready to begin a unit on shapes which is why I made this book for my kiddos to work on during math workshop. The shapes included in the book are a cone, cube, sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism, and pryamid. They cut out the shapes and paste them on the correct page. Then they write a sentence about the shape. This file is for sale in my TpT shop for here. These are super easy and fast to make. I copy the pages front-to-back and set the copier to staple twice on the left side. Then I can cut them in half with the paper cutter and the booklets will already be stapled and put together! This book goes perfectly with my 3-D Shapes Poster Pack...check it out here! I left my jump drive at school, but luckily its open all week so I'm going to swing by tomorrow and get it so I can share a freebie with you all tomorrow! It's a worksheet to review edges, faces, and vertices of 3-D shapes. \
Happy Sunday!!! I can’t seem to make time for blogging during the week! I think I need to start making Wednesday my day of blogging… otherwise it just doesn’t seem to get done. By Friday I am exhausted!! Anyway… Last week my classroom was all about weather, suffixes, informative writing, and fractions. Here are a […]
This is a wonderful free game for teaching nouns in first grade! Kids look at each common name and tell if it's a person, place, object, or animal. #grammar #nouns #firstgrade
Learn about Ancient Mesopotamia with this Epic of Gilgamesh for Kids hands on history lesson for elementary age students.
This will mark the ending of our very first year of Classical Conversations. Joshua's class will be reciting the Preamble, Caleb's class will
10 fun activity books with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art & math) ideas for kids.
I have been creating and using phonics poetry for K-2 classrooms for almost a decade now! I just find that fun, rhythmic phonics poems are a great way to practice so many different skills. For one, we practice decoding many different phonics patterns by reading words with those patterns within a text. We practice fluency […]
(Click on any photo to be taken to the resource) You are going to LOVE this unit. It’s easy to implement, it’s comprehensive, #representation, and your students are going to walk away with a great foundation of important social studies skills. We lay the foundation in literally every other academic area, social studies shouldn’t be […]
