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.
If you're teaching about the five senses, you need this giant book list of recommended reads!
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
Books about rocks for preschoolers and young kids. Includes free printable book list and rock writing activity for kids. Great resources for rock theme.
Free 12 Apostles accordion style mini book is the perfect activity for kids learning about the followers of Jesus.
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.
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?
We love reading folk tales, especially comparing different versions of common folk tales. This month for the The Virtual Book Club for Kids we’re rereading some of our favorites from Paul Galdone. Will you be joining in and reading along with us? If so, here are some fun resources and activities to go along with some...Read More
I love Big Books. I know what you are thinking, 'you love everything Mel'. But I am quite seriously serious when I tell you I love Big Books. If you are not sure what I am referring to - I will explain it. They are books. And they are big. Yep, that is it. See, now you know why I like them. There is beauty in simplicity. I like them because they are wonderful for helping students learn the strategies for reading. I like to use them for both 'shared' and 'modelled' reading experiences. When I do shared reading, I like the students to just sit back and find themselves immersed in the 'story'. Upon second reading, we often share the reading roles, and they assist in reading various parts of the text. When I do 'modelled' reading, I explicitly demonstrate various strategies used in reading. But what else can you do? You have invested a HUGE amount of energy in creating the reading routine, getting your students engaged and settled - transformed them to a land of imagination with your brilliant story telling. You might as well pack a little more educational punch into your session while you have the book out. Here are ten ideas for you to incorporate into your Big Book learning session. I am currently working on a printable pack to work alongside your big books, but these ideas require minimal, if not NO extra prep, print-outs, effort or resources. Just you, your kids, the book... - and as you will know, quite often that equals the BEST learning! 1. Before reading, ask students to predict what the story will be about. Ask them to go back to their desks and draw some pictures to show what they think will happen! 2. Play listening games – e.g. say to your students ‘roar like a tiger whenever I say the word tiger’. This will encourage your reluctant students to pay attention to the text. 3. Have groups of children chorus read, upon a re-reading of the text. You can alternate pages between groups of students. This will encourage them to attend to print and follow along. 4. Before reading, place random post-it notes through the story, over the text. When you get up to each note, in your reading, have students predict the word. 5. Tell the students that nouns are naming words and we can take a photo of most of them. While reading the text, get them to pretend they are taking a photo whenever you say a word that is a noun. 6. Before reading, identify 2 or 3 focus sight words (high frequency words). Whenever these words are read, students clap their hands. 7. Listen for mistakes – bring a puppet of some sort to school. Tell your students that he/she/it is learning to read, and will need some help. Tell your students to quietly put their hands on their head, whenever they hear the puppet making a mistake in their reading. You may ask students to explain the mistake too and describe how they knew the mistake had been made. This will encourage students to think about strategies for reading and give you the opportunity to explicitly identify them. 8. After reading, leave the big book and a pointer in your reading corner and let the children read and ‘be the teacher’ during independent free reading times. 9. Make a copy of one of the pages of text from the big book. Provide your students with highlighters to find all the occurrences of an aspect of print. Ask them to highlight all the spaces between words, all the capital letters, or all of the full stops, for example. 10. Create a character web. On chart paper, write the name of a character from your book. Encourage your students to tell you everything they know about the character from the text AND pictures. Ask students if this character reminds them of anyone they know. Encourage the link between what they read and their life experience. Is that all, you say? No that is not all, I will be back with 10 more ideas very soon! Have a great day friends, and thanks for stopping by!
The thought of sending your little one off to their first day of school can be bittersweet. On one hand, you feel proud of them and are excited for their new adventure (and for some free time to yourself) and on the other hand, you might feel torn because your little one has grown up so fast and may
Learn all about prepositions that describe position with these positional word books for kids. Includes a printable book list.
FREE science emergent reader book about the human body systems. Great science activity for preschool and kindergarten.
Pattern activities are used to teach kids the math skills of identifying and creating patterns. Keep kids engaged and having fun as they learn.
Cute, free printable parts of a plant flip book is such a fun way for kids to learn about the different parts of a flower for science.
Free Printable preposition game for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop gross motor skills, fine motor skills, vocabulary and visual discrimination.
These light experiments are great science lessons for 1st graders! Aligned with NGSS, the resource also includes books and related activities.
Identifying rhyming words is an important component of phonological awareness. It helps young children hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in words. Developing a student’s phonological awareness is important to developing a good reader. A simple way to explain rhyming words to students is they are words that have the same sound at the end. Young […]
Use these free printable Parts of a Book Poster & Worksheet to teach your pre-readers about book awareness and concepts of print.
Adapted books are great to get all students in your classroom engaged with what they are reading. Making adapted books is super easy. Learn more.
Grab these free printable activities to go with the book, Rosie's Walk. All the Rosie's Walk activities work on positional words.
Pre-K books to read. Best STEM books for kids. A list of books to support the development of STEM skills at home or in the classroom.
FREE Award-Winning Critical Thinking Puzzles! $75 Value! Delivered weekly to your inbox. Just pick your grade PreK-8! Sign up now!
Social-emotional activities can support distance learning at home. Grab your free copy of the SEL distance learning pack and editable calendar and children's book list!
Use this packet to create a fun flip book to help kids learn just where in the world they are! Have a fun-flipping day! You Might Also Like:Desktop Student Reminder for Order of OperationsWelcome To My House Writing Prompt CraftChristmas Dice GamesABC a Million!
10 simple videos that celebrate diversity and different cultures in an age-appropriate way for Kindergarten and first grade!
The Critical Thinking Company publishes PreK-12+ books and software to develop critical thinking in core subject areas.
Collection of 30 fine motor activities based on children's books
Check Out This Book Spotlight Titled "What Makes A Shadow?" Teachers and Parents Save Time and Money Lesson Planning.
A collection of children's stories with links to their perfect Classical Music pairings, great for inspiring imaginative movement.
All About Authors- Julia Donaldson. Biographical information, book list, activities and crafts, along with other resources to support books written by Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, Room On The Broom, Stick Man, The Snail On the Whale, and more!
Resources for building phonological awareness.
We will be starting measuring when we get back from spring break. Yes, our spring break is NEXT week! So, so early! I am super excited for the break, but it will be a long stretch from the middle of March to May! We do not get any days off for Easter. Since we spent...
Read the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs book and then do these fun activities with your kids. Kids will love these hands-on book activities.
STEM picture books with reviews! Great STEM books for kids to inspire.
Themes for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Over a dozen great books about resilience for kids in this book list from No Time For Flash Cards. Resilience for kids is vital, these books can help.
If you teach writing to K-5 learners, this book list has over 15 books to help you teach young writers all about the writing process.
Create a diversity book with your class and become published authors for free with Studentreasures' classbook publishing program. Start your classbook today.
Looking for a book list for making inferences and predictions? Here you go! Be sure to check out all the book lists I have for teaching comprehension. *This post contains affiliate links. Making inferences and predictions are highly related comprehension strategies. In fact, most books for teaching comprehension lump them together. For the younger ... Read More about Book List for Making Inferences and Predictions
A printable game called Taco, Taco, Salsa (letter identification and cvc word options) are the perfect Dragons Love Tacos activities.
Negation books that contain repetitive negatives to help teach the concept of negation expressively and receptively!
Enjoy a trip to the islands with these fun indoor activities -- a great way to spend a cold, winter day!
A clever and amusing look at the importance of being mindful of our own behavior, and being more accepting of others. Activities included.
Talk about a difficult concept with the help of a book! Plus, check out our tips for reading to your kids to increase comprehension.
Our educational summer vacation continues with a pretend trip to the United Kingdom. 6 days to learn everything we can about England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Includes printables!
Get your kids thinking about the electricity they use and the power all around them with these fun electricity books for kids.
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