Are you looking for a fun way to reinforce teaching similes to students? Making simile monsters is always a huge hit! Students will create a fictitious monster and use similes to describe the 5 senses about their monsters. To hook students, I love to read the text Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood (affiliate […]
Learning Math Facts with Cuisenaire Rods - Cuisenaire Rods are fun for the kids and helpful for learning valuable math concepts. Here are some ideas!
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This quick and EASY frankenworms experiment demonstrates baking soda and vinegar chemical reaction with fun halloween activities for October.
Check out these awesome free grammar worksheets. They are perfect for your Grammar lessons or Literacy centers. Download them now!
Set of FREE printable world map choices with blank maps and labeled options for learning geography, countries, capitals, famous landmarks
Rocks, man, rocks! How much fun does teaching about rocks sound? About as much fun as teaching about soil ! Thanks to Reading A-Z, an Aims ...
Last week's second grade art lesson was all about shape. Facts about shapes: they are flat, they are made from "closed" lines, some have names (triangle, square, circle). Shapes that have names are called geometric. Shapes that don't have names are called organic or irregular shapes. Then I introduced the kids to Piet Mondrian, Dutch
Learning about Norway for kids with these free printable Norway Mini Books to read, color, and learn for kids of all ages.
Sintra, Portugal boasts one of the most intriguing estates in the country known for its Romantic gardens and the mysterious Quinta da Regaleira 'Initiation Well". Here's more about this fascinating and beautiful sight.
Demi Vollering took her first Amstel Gold Race victory with a well-timed attack on the final ascent of the Cauberg. Over the main climb and with the bunch
I have had some requests to share work from our Waldorf-inspired second grade home school. I became much more comfortable teaching this year, and because of this and the wonderful subjects we studied, we had a lot of fun! In the second grade traditional Waldorf curriculum children can really start to sink into reading and ...
Looking for fun Color Worksheets for preschool? You've found them and a bunch of fun, hands-on, play-based learning centers as well. Recognition, sorting and more.
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Eric Carle Letters This was way too much fun. The day before Memorial Day and the last day of our study of Eric Carle, I had only 7 students. With such a low number of students, it is hard to do much serious work simply because it will have to be done all over again
Use this free printable book report sandwich idea to recall what you read. Print in black / white or color and use with elementary age kids.
Learn more about Spain for Kids with this FREE Printable My Little Book about Spain. Print pdf file, color, read, and learn about Espana!
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This SLO assessment could be used for elementary aged students in art class. This assessment covers elements and principles of art, as well as art history. ...
Learn about about 24 greek god and goddesses in this fun, Greek Mythology for Kids printable pdf book filled with Greek myths.
Are you looking for Writing lesson or bulletin board ideas? These no prep writing crafts are ideal for your literacy lessons!
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Learn how to teach and plan effective math mini-lessons during your guided math workshop in the Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade classroom. Read this elementary teachers' guide for tips and ideas of what to include and not include, as well as the benefits for your math instruction. Grab your free printable list of whole group math mini-lessons for Kinder, 1st grade, and 2nd grade for all of the math standards.
This simple roll and write activity is great for kids to practice writing addition and subtraction number sentences, as well as understanding subtraction.
Teaching text features to your primary students should be fun and engaging for your students. See many activities and suggestions!
Free printable math manipulatives including base ten blocks, cubes, red and yellow disks, money, dominoes, number bonds, ten frames and more!
Understanding space – foreground, middle ground, background as well as overlapping can be quite challenging for elementary kids. This assignment aimed at demystifying the concepts through a f…
Printmaking is magical for kids and adults as well. The process of creating an image then transferring that image to another piece of paper is so exciting. There are so many different ways to print…
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. \
If you didn't start out your year (all grade levels) discussing bucket filling, go back... it's not too late! For great anchor chart activity to go with the book: Have You Filled a Bucket Today? Teach your students compassion and empathy.
Help your child sit comfortably on the carpet with alternative positions. Learn why W-sitting is problematic and how to promote healthy sitting habits.
