The next time you read The Tiny Seed, be sure to include some fun & memorable activities to go with it. There are lots of crafts, activities, snacks, & printables you'll enjoy on this list.
Even as an adult, children's books are still one of my favorite things. I have many fond memories of “story […]
taking a story outside for a walk with kindergarten kids
This circle is based on The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle von Olfers (there’s also a wonderful updated version called When the Root Children Wake Up by Audrey Wood). Oh, how we love this story! The text in quotes is pulled from the von Olfers book; the circle play and au
There comes a time in every librarian's summertime themes when the topic of fireflies comes up. I love this theme because fireflies are ...
One of the things I love doing with my younger children is reading picture books and doing story-related activities with them to bring the story to life and create fun memories. We have enjoyed doing
I am linking up again with Teaching With Nancy's weekly linky - TGIF - Thank Goodness It's Free! Be sure to head over to her blog to pick up some more free stuff! We are finishing up our unit on plants and here are the greenhouses that we made. I have seen similar designs on Pinterest and decided to create one that we could use. Let me pause here to say - SEEDS ARE AMAZING! I forgot to buy bean seeds and remembered that I had pinto beans in my sensory bins! So I just grabbed some from the bins!!! And they grew!!! AMAZING! And did you know that you can use dry bean soup mix from the store to sprout? Here are the seeds on Day 1. And on Day 11. I love planting in plastic bags, because we are able to see all the plant parts! You can grab the Greenhouse pattern and directions below! Just click on the cover thumbnail! ***If you are having trouble accessing the file, please try using a non-work, non-school related account.***
A short summary of what spring is. There is a true or false exercise and some questions. There are lots of festivals during spring which they can discuss. In spring, plants spring! It is a verb, also. - ESL worksheets
Oviparous is a fairly new word to me. That's because I didn't know what it meant until my first year of teaching. Not lying! Many of you are nodding your head because it happened to you. Some of you are thinking "Really?? What did you learn in school!?" And some of you are scratching your
Handprint Pigeon Craft For Kids | Fun Mo Willems idea. Use a free printable PDF template to cut out & make. Great for preschool, kindergarten, + elementary.
The kids will have so much fun decorating and making their very own paper bag kites - just in time for spring!
After spending most of June and July working on the yard, it’s time to refocus on homeschooling. Normally we don’t take a summer break and instead take more time off in the spring and fall for plan…
These no-prep printables are perfect for teaching the life cycle of a dragonfly. Add them to your spring and summer homeschool plans.
Thank you so much for letting me partner with you in teaching your kids the scriptures! Enter your information below to receive the links for the following FREE Bible story printables.
September is National Little League Month. Celebrate with the following literacy activities, collected from my story time archives and educational blogs around the web. Sing and act out "Baseball Player" - sung to the tune of Are You Sleeping? - from Seasons of Joy. (I have used this one a lot in story time.) Bat, catch, throw, and run with "This is the Way You Bat the Ball", sung to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. Learn some new hand motions for Take Me Out to the Ballgame, courtesy of Bright Hub Education. Play Spelling Baseball. Practice writing color and number words with printable baseball-themed count and color books from A Teaching Mommy. Read aloud The Littlest Leaguer by Syd Hoff - or another title from my list of baseball books. Read "Casey at the Bat." Play Make Take and Teach's Vowel Team Baseball Game. Act out Who's on First? Challenge your kids to match homophones with this ball and glove set available on Teachers Pay Teachers. Present a nine-inning story time like this one from Steal My Ideas. Create a sensory ball basket like the ones featured at The Good Long Road and Living Montessori Now. Play flannel board baseball following these instructions from Itsy Bitsy Mom. Play "You're Out", a game from A Day in First Grade which focuses on sorting "ow" and "ou" words. Play the Baseball Sight Word Game from Freebielicious. Practice alphabetizing with these sets of caps, gloves, and balls available from KidSparkz.com. Color a baseball alphabet. Turn a bat and ball into the letter B as suggested by MPM Ideas. Sing Baseball Song by Joe Stover. Make a can/has/is chart about your child's favorite player as described by Little Warriors.
I was thinking I'd start this month off by telling you how I met my husband. You know, some back story. We met in the spring and/or summer of 2009.
Spider themed circle time activity for preschool with free printables and step by step instructions. Use any great spider picture book for this lesson.
Spring is great time to remind us just how powerful and amazing our God is. Trees, flowers and grass that were bare or dormant during the cold winter months grow to become new and beautiful during the spring. What a great time to teach little ones that they can grow in God just like the spring
These fun and simple Crafts and Read Alouds for Kindergarten will give you a ton of ideas for how to extend story time to center time!
I'm on spring break right now...aka I'm bored! We just finished our 4th/5th grade musical before break and even though my husband and I sp...
Love podcasts? Check out this post in the form of a podcast episode on The Classroom Commute
Book Inspired Kids Crafts Roundup - I Heart Crafty Things A big hello today to all of you lovely Glued to My Crafts fans! My name is Rachel and I blog
The Lorax is one of our favorite books and movies. Such a great message and fun story. She happily painted this little guy today on our patio. It's cool and cloudy - perfect outside crafting weather.
Missing a day of work is usually a headache for any teacher. Prepping for a day out was something I used to dread, especially if I was sick and the absence is unexpected. I have created print and go easy prep sub plans to help with this problem with kindergarten appropriate engaging activities. Recently, I loved sharing the story There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog(Affiliate link) with my student and is the perfect story for the spring! You will find a full day worth of sub plans that align to the story with activities covering math, writing, reading and more. All you will need for a stress-free day out is a copy of the book and these print and go sub plans. Each activity for the entire day comes with directions for the sub so all you really have to do is print, copy and write the times on each of the sheets. Easy peasy! I usually prepare these in advance and keep them in a binder in my classroom so everything is ready incase I am absent. What's Included Literacy: We began with an emergent reader. This helped to reinforce the sequence of events from the story. Students then have their own little book to get their hands on that they can color and then read. Note: As pictured above, each activity comes with a cover sheet that explains to the sub the included activity where you simply have to write the suggested time frame. After finishing the student readers, there are whole group sequencing cards that go along with the story. This is a fun pocket chart activity for a whole class retell of the story. After sequencing the story whole group, students then sequence the events on their own. This sequencing activity is included as a freebie at the end of the blog post. Your students can also create little flip books to practice sight words and vocabulary. Student cut and staple their mini flip books and I usually have my students copy the sentences and then practice reading them. Also included is a labeling activities that is great to reinforce phonics skills. Student should pay attention to beginning sounds of the words to label the picture. There is also a version included where students simply match the word. As well as phonemic awareness rhyming practice and a color by code focusing on the sight words they, this, with , form and look. Math You will also find a review of kindergarten common core themed math concepts with various levels and choices available. This resource makes it easy to differentiate for math based on the needs of your students and plenty of options to chose from for your classroom! There are simple practice problems such as identifying numbers to 10 in a ten frame, rainbow writing numbers to ten and a cut and paste ordering numbers to 5. As well as a more advanced kindergarten options like addition within 10, one more one less, missing numbers to 20 and number writing to 100. Fun Extras Also included are writing activities, extras such as word sort, as well as a variety of other activities in case you want to substitute an activity or add in extra. This packet is packed with resources that could probably last you 2 days if you wanted! You can find There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog Sub Plans here: You might want to check out the Yearlong "Old Lady" Sub Plans with sub plans for each month at a discounted price! They all follow the same format making it easy for your sub and your students if you are out. Or you can find the Free There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog Sequencing I hope that your students enjoy this story as much as me and my class and these sub plans make your absense stress free!
Print This CraftHere is our latest addition to the Buddies fun paper dolls. These Bedtime Buddies Paper Dolls will expand ... Read More
Engage your little learners in hands-on story book retelling practice that will result in a meaningful craft that shows off all their hard retelling work this March! This literacy kit supports the core (K-1) retelling standard by using detailed story cards for sequencing (retelling in their own word...
Goldilocks and The Three Bears Activities for preschool. Great free printables for the classic fairy tale Goldilocks.
These Joshua and the Battle of Jericho activities can be used in Christian Preschool programs and Sunday schools. Joshua & Jericho Sequencing
Come and grab this Free Printable Caterpillar Hat to go along with the book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Such a great sequencing activity!
What is your favorite spring arts & craft activity? These 21 spring crafts for kids are fun and easy to make in the classroom or at home with simple materials!
Watch the movie and read the book and then make your very own Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs craft for preschoolers! It's a fun and easy movie craft!
create a wiggle worm singing time jar for singing time, help children get their wiggles out for singing time by using a wiggle worm jar
