Halloween Songs We Are Learning

These printable number posters are the perfect addition to your PreK, Kindergarten, or First grade classrooms! Ideal for learning all about numbers.

We have a two day week next week. Not enough time to do much of anything. Monday I try and stick to the routine, but Tuesday is more laid back. I don’t do a big party. Instead I pretty much just make use of all those Thanksgiving worksheets I was handed my first year of ... Read more

How to create a calm-down corner using printable tools. Emotions can be big and scary for kids and giving them tools can help them regulate.

Do you have a few kiddos in your classroom that just need some time away from the class to regroup, refocus, and center themselves? Create a calming area.

Looking for fun Fairy Tale Activities for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On Learning Activities and Centers for Preschool or Kindergarten.

Medieval Pre-K/Kindergarten Worksheet and Activity Book 45 pages of educational fantasy fun featuring Knights and Princesses. This booklet is full of basic skill practice pages and activities as we…

Welcome to the Free Resource Library for Montessori, early childhood and lower elementary teachers, parents and educators! I am thrilled to provide you with a curated selection of free printables. […]

Grab this free pack of seven reading and math activities with a gingerbread theme to use in your classroom this December!

Here are some of the things we did this week for our Fairy Tale/Storybook Character Unit: We talked about what a fairy tale is and what fairy tales sometimes have in them. We talked about the Story Elements in each of the Fairy Tales we read this week. Little Red Riding Hood Here is the chart I used to fill in the Story Elements as we talked about them as a class. While filling this chart out, we made our characters and set up our classroom (setting) so we could act out the story. Little Red Riding Hood Activity: They made a picture of Little Red Riding Hood and then filled in the boxes describing her. Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears We filled this in after reading the story. I had the students make this story character map for Goldilocks. Cinderella We filled this in together as a class. I laminated these Story Element Anchor Charts so I could write on them with an Expo Marker and easily wipe them off! Writing Activity: If I had a Fairy Godmother... The Three Little Pigs I read two versions of The Three Little Pigs and we compared the two stories. I had the students fill out these WANTED posters for the Big Bad Wolf. Jack and the Beanstalk We did a measurement activity. The Frog Prince Graphing Activity: Would you kiss a frog? Fairy Tale Elements Chart: After reading each fairy tale we went through and marked what fairy tale elements the book had. Storybook Character Dress-up Day: To end our unit we had the students dress up as their favorite storybook character. They came to school dressed in their costume with their book and we guessed who they were. Even all the first grade teachers dressed up! Here is just a peek at some of the storybook characters the first grade teachers have dressed us as during the years. The Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Alice in Wonderland All Laura Numeroff book characters! Click HERE to download my Fairy Tale Unit from my TpT store!

Here's an easy bat craft preschool kids will love! They can strengthen fine motor skills as they "magically" create a bat and a glowing full moon.

Night Tree by Eve Bunting tells a beautiful story about one family's yearly tradition to decorate a tree for the animals in the woods. This is a great book to add to your December read aloud collection. Here are some activities you can pair with this story.

ALL ABOUT Numbers 1-20 worksheets and Assessment are designed to cover all topics in numbers 1-20.

Here are some resources I’ve compiled together about the life-cycle of a chick. It will hopefully be a one stop place for your lesson. PowerPoint (from another website tes.co.uk). Here are a …

It's beginning to look a lot like....truthfully, Christmas!!! Everywhere I look we've skipped straight over Thanksgiving and gone right to the twinky lights (which are admittedly my favorite), trees in store window displays, and The Elf is back in stock at the North Pole...AKA Target. ;) But for at least two more weeks our classroom is going to be looking a lot like THANKSGIVING!!Case in point, the giant Mayflower graph that got hung up this past Friday while we were busy learning all about these new people called the Pilgrims. We read about them as we started lesson one in...

We started our spider unit this week, and I was soooo excited with all the awesome resources I found on other blogs ... Please check out th...

Here are just a couple things we did during our spider unit this week! First, we started our unit by graphing if we are or are not afraid of spiders. Here is what our class graph showed. Next, we filled in the KWL Chart. We added what we already knew about spiders and what we wanted to learn this week about spiders. Throughout the week I read numerous Non-Fiction books about spiders. Here are some of the books I read: We talked about the difference between Spiders/Arachnids and Insects. We labeled the parts of a spider. For a fun art/writing activity we began by filling in the verb/adjective chart together as a class. After filling in the chart together, the students used the words off the chart to make a poem about spiders. After the students wrote their poem they made a handprint spider. They added eyes, a web, bugs in the web, etc. to their spider after it dried. Click HERE to download the Spider Poem Writing Paper from my TpT Store! We have been talking a lot about the difference between a fact and opinion lately. For this activity the students sorted and stuck the Spider fact and opinion sentences onto the correct spider. Click HERE to download the Spider Fact and Opinion Sentences from my TpT Store! As a class, we wrote our own Spider facts. We ended our spider unit by filling in our KWL Chart again with all the new information we learned throughout the week about spiders. Finally, we graphed again on how we now feel about spiders after learning about them all week.

Stretch, walk, cross the midline, and drive the cars through paint in this gross motor process art project that is sure to please your preschoolers!

Weekly lesson plans all about how animals survive in the winter including hibernation activities for preschoolers.

How is it already the middle of October????!!! Where has the time gone? Sorry I’ve been a *bit* MIA last week. It was the end of the quarter for us here, which means grades were due and well… I think that’s ‘nough said! LOL! As the month of October flies by, we’ve been delving into […]

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CALMING BOX: How to help kids calm down? A calm down kit is a great tool that will help children self-regulate when they are anxious or angry

Hi everyone! It’s snowing where many of you live. I have a fun winter snow booklet for your students to write about all the fun things they can do in the snow. These are a few samples of the booklet pages. Click here for a free download. Happy winter! You Might Also Like:Winter Student Grouping ... Read More about Fun in the Snow Activities

You can cover so many concepts in a gingerbread unit. Activities like reading, writing, centers, and even STEM topics all fit well with The Gingerbread Man.

These hands-on snowman activities for kindergarten will help your students practice math and literacy skills in an engaging snowman unit study!

The week before Halloween was all about pumpkins! :) We went to a Pumpkin Patch for a study trip, and the kids had a blast! The kids got to pick out a pumpkin to take home so we used that pumpkin for fun measurement with their book buddies. They weighed it, measured its circumference and counted the lines on it. We started off talking about pumpkins by coming up with words to describe them (reviewing adjectives. I used a few activities from Deanna Jump's Halloween unit for this. We made a web of adjectives to describe pumpkins and then we used these adjectives to make our own pumpkin poems. We also did a cute class book from Deanna's unit about what we will be for Halloween. It turned out ADORABLE! :) We did a fun pumpkin writing activity where the kids got to create their own pumpkin characters and write about what they would do. I got it from Made For First Grade's Pumpkin unit. In math, we did a simple pumpkin seed book activity, but added in number sentences to show how many pumpkin seeds were in the pumpkin. (Honestly can't remember who I downloaded this from so if it is your book, let me know so I can credit you. I follow too many blogs!! ) Since we were working on addition and subtraction, we also did a fun Halloween Doubles book to practice our doubles facts. (Once again, forgot who I downloaded this from. Let me know if it's yours! The kids loved it!!) We also did fun pumpkin and halloween word problems. Here are a few examples: We read a lot of fun pumpkin books including Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Diane Ochiltree and my all-time favorite The Ugly Pumpkin by Dave Horowitz. We then wrote about the book in our reading journals focusing on the problem and solution in the story. The Inspired Apple blog has a post on other fun activities to do with this great book! :) On Halloween (I think Halloween on a Monday should be illegal by the way! haha) we did lots of fun Halloween activities, most of which I got from Rachelle's Halloween unit. From her unit we read her adorable, Green Witch Green Witch book and the kids got to color and fill in their own book. They also did a Halloween word search, solved secret Halloween messages and drew themselves trick-or-treating. We also did several fun art projects. The kids got to paint pumpkins and then use black construction paper to create the face. They turned out ADORABLE! :) We did a writing/art project where we read Where's My Mummy? and wrote about what our moms do for us when we are scared. The kids also made their own mummy masks out of paper plates. SO ADORABLE! :) Our final art project was also from Rachelle's unit. We made skeletons out of q-tips! Hope you enjoyed our Halloween fun! Coming soon...Inventors! :)

If you are studying Hibernation this winter, this ELA unit will be a great addition! Here is a look inside. Hibernation ELA Unit Animals in Winter- Use the word chart to support writers as they write about animals in winter. There are several readers discussing animals in winter. Get up and moving with this hibernation write the room activity. There are 5 Hibernation Themed Literacy Centers: Bear Cave Ending Sound Sort CVC Mix Up- Unscramble each CVC word. Bear Blends- Cover each picture with a bear counter. Feed the Groundhog Sight Words- Feed the groundhog sight words. This no prep spin and cover is also included. Snowy Substitutions- Spin and substitute the beginning sound for each word. There are 5 read aloud book recommendations, with a reading comprehension skill and writing prompt. I hope this can help with your ELA plans this winter!