How to decorate an ESL Classroom; 8 ESL classroom decorations for a welcoming and inclusive environment for your multilingual students.
Gretchen, a sweet senior, enjoyed two personalized photo sessions, initially in Lewiston and later at her school, Deary High School. As an athlete, she wanted to showcase her sports in her images. The sessions captured her confidence, set in meaningful locations like the school’s gym and football field.
Looking for fun Earth Day Activities for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On Earth Day Learning Activities and Crafts for Preschool or Kindergarten.
Tips and examples to craft letters for your students.
Gretchen, a sweet senior, enjoyed two personalized photo sessions, initially in Lewiston and later at her school, Deary High School. As an athlete, she wanted to showcase her sports in her images. The sessions captured her confidence, set in meaningful locations like the school’s gym and football field.
25 Quiet Time Activities for Kids. Keep your kids entertained with these educational activities.
Gretchen, a sweet senior, enjoyed two personalized photo sessions, initially in Lewiston and later at her school, Deary High School. As an athlete, she wanted to showcase her sports in her images. The sessions captured her confidence, set in meaningful locations like the school’s gym and football field.
Do you teach a preschool farm theme? Grab these awesome preschool farm activities and worksheets for your classroom and centers.
Teach children about weather with this free printable cloud reader to discover different types of clouds for kids.
Happy first week of school and happy almost first week of school for those who have not started yet! I hope every had and has a wonderful first week! I started back with my students on Monday and we had a wonderful week! My new kiddos are absolutely adorable and so precious! I currently have […]
Help kids practice their ability to put different steps of a process in sequence. This bed time sequencing worksheet has four different pictures showing different steps of the bedtime routine including a child being tired, brushing teeth, reading books in bed and then in bed asleep. Kids are asked to write the numbers 1 - 4 next to the pictures to put them in sequence.
Five senses activities for preschool learning centers, circle time about the five senses and preschool STEM activities.
Love drawing things? Learn how to draw a tree!
Learn about how sound is made! Make science fun for kids of all ages by teaching them how sound is made. This sound activity is great for all curriculum
Do you teach a preschool farm theme? Grab these awesome preschool farm activities and worksheets for your classroom and centers.
Here is the last church craft I made for this session of Kids Quest. It was pretty easy to do. It's a wheel that you can turn, reminding you...
Celebrate spring with these easy, no prep, printable worksheets! This packet includes 25 worksheets and 1 instructional page to help your little learners practice math skills, literacy skills, and fine motor skills! Great for preschool, pre-k, transitional kindergarten (TK), or kindergarten. Use these worksheets for early finishers, centers, or send home for homework practice. This packet includes: "Flower Power Rhyme Time" "Bug Jar Sort- Fly or Crawl" "Flower Shape Tracing" "Color by Sight Word Flowers" "Hungry Alligators- Greater or Less Than" "How Do Plants Grow" Sequencing "The Needs of a Plant" Cut and Glue "Mushroom Dot-to-Dot" "Crack the Code: Mystery Sentence" "Cut and Glue Flower Ten Frame" "Alphabet Match Up" "Spring Patterns" "Parts of a Flower" Cut and Glue "Flower Number Writing and Sequencing 1-10" "Flower Number Writing and Sequencing 11-20" "CVC Ending Sounds" "Base Ten Flower Measuring" "Roll and Cover Rainbow Flower" "Sweet Bee Letter/Sound Sort" "Ten Frame Flower Counting" "Spin and Search: Letters S, G, & C" "Happy Flower Color by Number" "Ladybug Adding Spots" "I See Spring: Guided Reading Booklet" "I See Spring: Instructions" Please feel free to use this packet for distance learning for your students!
In 6th grade we study the Art Historical Time Line. We always do a “faux” stained glass window project using liquid watercolors and sharpies. We get inspiration from looking at a…
See what happens to apples left in air, water, vinegar, and oil for a week! Use the included printable worksheet to have your students record their observations.
Gretchen, a sweet senior, enjoyed two personalized photo sessions, initially in Lewiston and later at her school, Deary High School. As an athlete, she wanted to showcase her sports in her images. The sessions captured her confidence, set in meaningful locations like the school’s gym and football field.
We are learning the books of the Bible and I thought it'd be fun to make bookmarks with the shape of a sword! I created these patterns and a...
Exploring water can be fascinating. We started our exploration with plain water and eye droppers. The trays were lined with wax paper. The children started with dropping amounts of water on the tray and seeing the interaction of the droplets. They quickly discovered how they could drag the drops with their droppers to meet others. Some figured out that they could use their own fingers much the same way. They noticed that the droplets increased in size as they connected with others. They learned that the speed with which they squirted out the water affected the size of the droplets formed. Then they started changing the path of the droplets by blowing on them or moving their trays. They were even observing how the wax paper changed depending on if the water was dropped on top of the paper or if it seeped below the paper. After several days we added ramps and all new discoveries were possible. Then we colored the water. Each was a step that acknowledged their prior discoveries and challenged them to investigate further. When a child became intrigued with the paper towel we were using to wipe up the table, and began dropping water on it, we added that to the experiment. Each tray then had a piece of wax paper and a piece of paper towel on it for comparison. With the colored water, the children loved what was happening to the paper towels used to clean up the spills, so that became the center; colored water dropped onto paper towels-a simple tie dye activity evolved. We sparked their curiosity and then followed their lead. The smiles explain better than any words the joy experienced when learning science through play!
It's frustrating when students don't follow directions the first time! Here are 5 quick tricks for getting students on track fast!
Do you teach in a religious school? Or maybe lead Sunday school or a religious education classroom each week? I have a fun freebie for you! I use Prayer Bear in my Catholic religious formation class each week with my first graders. Each week, a new student takes Prayer Bear home and gets to spend time praying with him. A binder travels with him that includes prayer prompts and a week at a glance of what they did with Prayer Bear each day. I have all the parts you need to make this binder as a FREEBIE on my blog. I did an overview of religious posts and products in honor of Catholic schools week, but this particular activity and freebie could be used in any Christian classroom.
In kindergarten I think it is so important for students to have concrete understanding of numbers. I love to teach math in a very hands on manner, giving students to opportunity to count real objects. Most students in my class begin without having any number sense so I always begin with the very basics. These are a few of my favorite ways to teach number sense in kindergarten. Identifying and Writing Numbers Quiz Quiz Trade My school is very into Kagan strategies and cooperative learning and we played quiz quiz trade to practice identifying our numbers. Each students begins with a card. They find a partner, quiz their partner what number they have. Their partner does the same for them and they trade cards and then find a new partner. It is great to get your students moving and I always see so much engagement! I love playing teaching this game early in the year because we use it for so many concepts as the year goes on but it is important to teach and review expectations with students when playing this game. Playdoh Numbers We also practiced making the numbers out of playdoh. What 5 year old doesn't love using playdoh!?!? I would say a number and the students would make that number. We can then trace it with our fingers. Sand Writing A fun and quick small group or intervention warm up is sand writing. I use pencil cases to store my sand. They are keep enough that they won't cause a lot of sand falling out. This is a multi-sensory activity that your students will love. You can either just say a number, pick a ten frame or roll a dice. For this activity, we were working on number to ten so I used a dice with numbers 1-10. I had the student roll a dice, tell me what number it was, and then write it in the sand. Race to the Board My students loved playing race to the board to practice identifying numbers. To prep this game, I have numbers 1-20 on two sides, one for each team. I glue the numbers on butcher paper and that is our game board. I prep it once and then I am able to use it all year long. I play this game with a little twist to get all of my students involved. Instead of just saying a number, I stand behind my two students who are racing to the board, so they cannot see, and show the whole class a quantity on a tens frame. The whole class would shout out the number that I was showing and then two students would run to the board to find that number. This gave the students practice identifying amounts on a tens frame as well as identifying numbers. Although at the beginning of the year we only focus on the numbers 1-10, I have the numbers 1-20 on my chart because I use it throughout the year for different math activities and this just made it easier for me. Hidden Numbers This was a fun partner activity for students. Each group of students received numbers strip to 10 and 4 mini erasers (like the ones you get from Target Dollar Spot) The one partner closed their eyes, while the other partner placed the erasers on numbers to make them "hidden." The partner then opened their eyes and identified the numbers that were hiding. Number Jam To teach number identification and writing, I am in love with number songs.... It has helped so many of my students correctly form the numbers. You can listen to it by clicking on the link below. I love using it as our number warm up. I play the song and the students write the number on their white boards (or shaving cream) while listening to the music. Concrete Represention of Numbers Ordering Numbers: This is a fun partner activity. I give each group of students numbers 1-5 and cubes. There is 1 cube of 1 color, 2 cubes of a different color, 3 cubes of another color, etc. The students order the numbers, sort the cubes and match them to a number. It is a quick and fun hands on activity for them. Various Representation of Numbers This was such a simple, yet effective small group or center activity that I did with my students.I found several objects in the classroom that they could use to show numbers. We used number cards, counters, dice, dominos and magetic letters. I simply placed them in a basket and the students would sort the numbers 1-6, showing it in different ways. Counting Containers I found these cute little containers and stickers at Dollar Tree and I knew it would be an activity that my students would love. They simply choose a container, identified that number, and then I had them use fine motor tweezers (Amazon Affiliate Link) to count out that many pom poms. This proved to be so helpful because it slowed them down with their counting. Counting Activities Grab and Count: This activity was a favorite by my students. It was so easy to differentiate, since depending on what number we were working on, I changed the size of the pom poms that were used. I used larger pom poms for students who were working to 5 (so less would fit into their scoopers), and smaller as they learned up to the teen numbers. Students grabbed pom poms using scooper (Amazon Affiliate Link). They then counted how many they had. If necessary, I had my students use a number strip or tens frame for support. They can also write the number on a white board of recording sheet. Counting Jars These are another favorite of mine to practice counting. I have several old baby food jars with letters that I wrote on the tops There is also a recording page with these letters for students to record their answers. I put different objects in each of the jars... pom poms, erasers, pennies, etc and students practice counting the objects and recording their answer. This is also another game that is so easy to both use throughout the year and to differentiate. It is so easy to switch out the objects in the baby jars so if students are more able, you can put in more objects. More Abstract Representation Number Sorts: We then transitioned to number sorts up to 10. I love using these, because although the students don't realize it yet, it is exposing them to so many different representations of the numbers by using dice, dominos, tens frames, etc. We introduced these sorts whole group and then they became a math center activity for my students. Individual Number Sorts: To check my students understanding, I also had them complete number sorts for each number. This allowed me to see how may need some extra support. They counted and sorted examples and non examples of each of the number. You can find these pocket chart sort and student sorts in my TPT store by clicking here: Number Sorts I hope you enjoying seeing different number and counting activities that I do in my classroom. What are some fun activities that you use to teach number sense?
Reinforce measurement skills with these hands-on and fun measurement centers. Students can use these easy prep math activities to practice measuring.
The first counseling session is your first opportunity to build rapport, establish a safe space, and encourage student agency. Plan that time with purpose.
I saw a similar project to this online and decided it would be a successful project for my fifth graders. They had to use a cool color on their hands and a warm color on their background. This project went pretty quickly and was a good first project that everyone was successful with. It was a great reminder about overlapping, as well. They loved looking at different examples of optical illusions each week and I shared some of M.C. Escher's work too.
This week in Pre-K we had an 'Around the World' theme, ending with learning about China on F riday, which was Chinese New Years. We also ti...
