Since the beginning of the school year, I’ve been working on slowly introducing the memorization of math facts to my son. This week we’ve been focusing on learning the numbers that add up to ten. I thought I’d share with you the making 10 activities we’ve done this week, including a free game I created! We […]
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. One of my most popular winter pins is the one I found last year on a blog I love to read called katherinemaries.com. It was from a post about ten things to do on a snow day and included this cute […]
When I taught public school, our school used the Four Blocks Literacy Model for reading and writing. The four blocks are guided reading, self-selected reading, writing, and working with words (phonics). One of the activities both my students and I always enjoyed was simply called “Making Words”. Students were given a big word (which was […]
Friday is art day around here and with temperatures in the single digits last week, what better art project to make than a snowman?! I’m so excited to share this textured snowman craft with you. The snowman looks so real that you almost feel like it’s made of snow! Materials: Construction paper or cardstock (Colors: […]
Right before the Christmas break, we wrapped up a huge thematic unit I created on animals. We were taken on a fun adventure around the world by Bert the Animal Expert, where we learned about a different animal group on each continent. We studied amphibians, reptiles, spiders, mammals, insects, fish, and birds. We also learned […]
This winter emergent reader for kindergarten is one of the first products I created when I started my TPT store. I recently gave it a complete makeover with new clip art and added a digital version in Google Slides, too. Let me give you a sneak peak of this FREE resource! Print Emergent Reader The […]
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Last night, we had a family movie night. We decided a couple of weeks ago what our pick would be: Elf. My kids haven’t seen it and I hoped they’d find it as funny as we did when we first saw […]
Our math curriculum doesn’t do a stellar job covering angles. I went on a search for some angle activities to hopefully make the unit more fun and meaningful. When I didn’t find anything that fit what I was looking for, I decided to create something on my own. I put together The Angle Family […]
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. On Fridays this December, I’m going to try to incorporate some Christmas fun into our day. I think I’m going to focus on one Christmas-related theme each Friday, with the first one being reindeer. In planning for this day, I created […]
I’m busy planning and creating a few Thanksgiving activities for us to do next week. I pinned this pin a few months ago about students imagining looking at a character in a book through a keyhole and then writing and drawing about them from that perspective. I loved that idea, and when I was thinking […]