I wanted to tell you a little about my newest TPT product: Halloween Math for Kindergarten and First Grade. This product contains 28 printable Halloween math activities and games. They’re great to use for math centers, morning work, homework, or for early finishers. They also require almost no teacher preparation. A few of the games […]
Apple Unit for Kindergarten and First Grade
This post contains affiliate links of products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. I recently finished up my newest unit: an apple unit for kindergarten and first grade! I’m really excited about this unit and wanted to give you a sneak peek at what’s inside! This week long unit includes detailed daily lessons plans […]
Apple Videos
Do you teach an apple unit in the fall? If so, here are a few apple videos I found that are a perfect fit! Apple Songs This is the cutest song! Kids will love the way he says “applesauce” and get a kick out of singing this one. The Learning Station makes great quality children’s […]
Apple Writing Activities
No apple unit is complete without reading How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman. With the market closed, the little girl travels around the world to get the ingredients for her apple pie in this beautiful book. Watch and listen to the story being read in this video: After reading […]
Telling Time Videos
We’re going to be doing some math review over the summer and one of the things I’m going to incorporate is videos. One of the math concepts we covered this year was time. Here are some telling time videos I’ve pulled together that I may use. I sorted them by the specific time concepts they […]
Time Activities for First Grade
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. We’ve just wrapped up learning time to the hour and half hour with my youngest. I wanted to share with you some of the time activities we did as a supplement to our math lessons, starting with this fun clock hat! […]
Multiplication Arrays
This post contains affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. My friend, Kim, at Life Over C’s has an awesome 21 day series going on her blog called “Learn with Your Craft Stash“. The series focuses on learning activities you can do with craft items you have around your home or classroom. […]
Plants Printables
Back in July, I found these great blank books in the dollar section at Target. I didn’t know what I’d use them for at the time, but at $3.00 for 8 books, I couldn’t pass them up. Fast forward a few months, and I knew I had the perfect project for them: plant books! I […]
Plant Videos for Students
For every unit that we do, I always head straight to YouTube to try to incorporate videos as part of our learning. This time I searched for plant videos for students that touched on many of the important concepts we were studying. After an extensive search, I finally found some great videos! What’s Inside a Seed? […]
Photosynthesis for Kids
It’s February and there’s about ten inches of snow in my yard right now, but we’re just wrapping up our study of plants. The middle of winter might not be the ideal time to learn about plants, but that’s what my kiddos asked to learn about. So, plants it was! Over the next several posts, […]