These easy crafts are so much fun and perfect for celebrating some quirky national holidays. Cherry Popsicle day, Pickle day, Taco day, and more! Fun & Easy Crafts! These are easy to assemble and so much fun! You and your students will enjoy celebrating 14 quirky national holidays. I recommend printing the patterns on colored cardstock. Then, have students cut out the pieces and assemble these adorable crafts! There are informational pages for each holiday and fun ... continue reading...
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Back to School Activities and Crafts for the Primary Classroom
Back to School activities for kindergarten, 1st, 2nd grade. Open house resources, schedule cards, songs and chants, crafts, and so much more! Back to School Activities It's that time of year again! New students will be walking through your classroom door soon or maybe they have already! These back to school activities are great to help students become comfortable in their new classroom with a new teacher and possibly new friends. Plus, there are some great resources to help you feel ... continue reading...
Fun Name Activities for Early Learners | Crafts and Interactive Charts!
Name activities for early learners. Students will have fun practicing their names with these math and literacy activities that are great for back to school! Name Activities Is it back to school time for you? Well... are you (at least) thinking about back to school? These fun crafts and interactive pocket chart activities are perfect to practice names and have fun doing it! They also make ADORABLE bulletin boards for the first few weeks of school! Here are a few math and literacy ... continue reading...
St. Patrick’s Day Activities & Crafts
St. Patrick's Day activities for kindergarten and first grade. Cute craft ideas and fun math and literacy lessons to help you celebrate. St. Patrick's Day Activities St. Patrick's Day is such a fun holiday to celebrate in the classroom! Maybe you have a leprechaun who visits and leaves his tiny footprints and glitter all around. Or, perhaps your students build traps to catch a leprechaun. The excitement of the holiday is sure to make an engaging day of learning. Check out some ideas from ... continue reading...
Zoo Animals | Chit Chat Messages & Close Reading
Zoo Animals unit packed full of resources! Engaging and fun activities. Chit Chat messages, close reading passages, crafts, and more! Zoo Animals Teaching about zoo animals is seriously one of the best times EVER! The littles get super excited and stay so engaged in learning. It can be hard to keep their attention at this time of the year, but it sure helps when they are having fun! I just completely updated this whole unit so it's ready to go for your upcoming zoo unit. Find it by ... continue reading...
National Holidays for August and September
Students always love to celebrate holidays with their friends. Typically, this includes holidays like Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and Christmas. However, there are so many more special days to celebrate. This often involves quirky or strange holidays that people do not even realize have an official day. So, I love to use these quirky national holidays for August and September to create extra excitement. There are even fantastic National Holidays Crafts and Poems! Honestly, students have the best ... continue reading...
Explore Holidays Around the World in Kindergarten and First Grade
Holidays around the World! Travel around the world and learn about 10 different celebrations. PowerPoints, anchor charts, writing responses, and a fun Holidays around the World craft! Holidays Around the World Studying celebrations and different countries around the world is always fun with little learners in kindergarten and first grade. It is so neat to explore different cultures and beliefs in various countries. In my Holidays Around the World unit of study, students have fun learning ... continue reading...
Read-Aloud Activities for Tops & Bottoms
No matter the career path students select to follow, they will spend a lot of time reading. Whether this is textbooks or manuals, building comprehension at a young age is essential. Since comprehension includes many aspects, it takes time, practice, and patience. However, students also need to enjoy reading to see the true importance of the words on the page. Thus, teachers work hard to select engaging read-alouds and high-quality lessons to show students how excellent books are. Luckily, the ... continue reading...
Stellaluna Read-Aloud
Listening to a read-aloud is often the most exciting part of the day for students. They love sitting together and listening to their teacher read a fantastic book. Honestly, this is one of the calmest parts of the day. However, it can also be one of the most educational! With the Read Aloud Lesson Plans, students can enjoy amazing stories while working on engaging activities. For instance, they can enjoy the Stellaluna read-aloud and dive into their standards. Students will love the story and ... continue reading...
Name Activities for Early Learners
Carol Lyons once said, “The most powerful and effective way for children to begin learning the complex process of learning about letters is by working with their own names." This quote does an incredible job of explaining how important one's name is. When meeting students for the first time, one of the first questions asked is, “What’s your name?” Teachers work so hard to remember all of the names as quickly as possible. This shows teachers care about them for who they are and enjoy getting to ... continue reading...
Big Hungry Lion
The entire environment transforms when students listen to a classroom read-aloud. Suddenly, the book brings magic and adventure to the classroom. Instead of a crazy trick, students experience a story evolving with rigorous vocabulary, deep comprehension, and personal connections. For instance, Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion is an incredible way to expand learning through an enjoyable story. Additionally, the Engaging Readers Read Aloud Lessons ensure students truly absorb so much learning ... continue reading...
St. Patrick’s Day Math and Literacy Activities
Wouldn’t it be nice to find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow? While it is not actually possible, the excitement this would cause is coming alive in the classroom! However, many students are looking forward to building leprechaun catchers or pinching people not wearing green during St. Patrick's Day. No matter what the excitement is over, it will be essential for teachers to create engaging St. Patrick’s Day Math and Literacy Activities. By doing this, student excitement for St. ... continue reading...
American Symbols Activities and Resources for Kindergarten & First Grade
American symbols activities and resources. Informational texts, anchor charts, crafts, science experiments, emergent reader, math games, writing activities, and more! American Symbols Activities Teaching about American symbols can be lots of fun and students learn about important pieces of our history! These lesson ideas and resources are perfect for engaging students in the study of American symbols. Chit Chat Messages: American Symbols Chit chat messages are perfect for shared ... continue reading...
Gingerbread Week
Gingerbread Week Lesson Plans for Kindergarten and first grade! Crafts, literacy and math lessons to make these lessons a classroom favorite! For the last few weeks, we have been working on all things Gingerbread! We spent a few weeks reading and studying Gingerbread stories (Gingerbread Baby and Gingerbread Girl), at the end of the study we had fun creating our Gingerbread Glyphs analyzing the data, and we made Gingerbread houses! Gingerbread Week: Glyphs Our gingerbread glyphs ... continue reading...
Reindeer Lessons & Activities! (Reindeer Book Freebie)
Reindeer lesson plans with informational text with a FREE file. Includes crafts, writing, reading and more for your kindergarten lessons or first-grade lessons. Reindeer Lesson Ideas: Reading Informational Texts Here is a peek into what is included in this Reindeer Unit. Last week was a CUH-RAZY week for my little sweeties. In addition to all of the normal holiday craziness we were still trying to practice and get ready for our Gingerbread man play. We performed the play for the ... continue reading...